Those that have done best are now moving away from staple crops to higher-value things such as flowers and fruit.
With their captivating aromas of flowers, fruit and spice, bright minerality and juicy acidity, they're also wines that last a long time.
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While there isn't much to buy, the market is a sensual feast of fresh-cut flowers, exotic fruit and interesting characters.
He would bring her flowers, or fruit from the orchard, and when it became clear that they were serious about each other he had created a long-running joke about their having identical tattoos: hearts, roses, Celtic knots, tiny bluebirds tucked away in the secret angles of their bodies, where only they could see.
Or even a costumed crusader smacking down a picture of fruit and flowers?
Why hang a picture of fruit and flowers on your wall when you can instead hang a picture of a costumed crusader smacking down evil?
Wolfgang Mozart didn't just write pretty incidental music for the court, Jane Austen didn't just write love stories and Bonnard didn't just paint pretty flowers, bowls of fruit and tabletops.
There can't be many self-sufficient drunks in the world, autarkic alcoholics who never once have to burden the off-license but who simply press whatever fruit, flowers or vegetables are growing in their gardens and transform the juices into alcohol.
These megasacks, made out of corn starch, hold 2.5 grams of tea, flowers, herbs, dried fruit and sometimes cacao nibs.
Such greenhouses could be used to grow fruit, vegetables and flowers cheaply.
An altar is erected and piled high with offerings to the invisible visitors: flowers, ribbons, coloured candles, tamales (steam-cooked cornmeal dough), fruit and corn.
It looks like the fantasy countryside on a fruit crate, but this one comes alive with pungent smells--a scent of apple flowers in the spring dawn, scythed hay, piles of cow dung drying for fuel on top of the walls (my first thought: climbing cows?).
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