Winter Flowers: Mahonias
December can be a bleak month for flowers unless you count the odd, brave snowdrop or a precocious witch hazel. The last of autumn leaves have fallen, and the late-flowering asters have gone to seed....
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Dear Jimmy, Snow had fallen at Chanticleer in the last few weeks. I remember a visitor interested in seeing Chanticleer during winter, only to have her hopes deflated upon discovering that we were...
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Winter has a charm all its own – some of us love it, some of us loathe it. Being in the former group, I wait patiently for winter to appear here in Madrid, and I forget that this is it, this what I get...
View ArticleFrosty Nights and Tropical Warmth
Dear Jimmy, It has been a while since we last corresponded through letters, and your last letter on Cordoba had me longing for warmth again. However, yesterday was the winter solstice, which means that...
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