Overview. Shade gardening requires plants that thrive in full or partial shade. Growing under pine trees requires plants that prefer a highly acidic soil. For best results, choose plants that benefit from having automatic pine needle mulch applied whenever the pine sheds.
The exhibition Famille Verte is about a very special kind of Chinese porcelain. Simply put, famille verte (c.1680-1725) wares are extraordinarily fine and beautiful objects.The colourful decorations of flowers, butterflies, mythical animals or Chinese figural scenes are rendered in painstaking detail.s a new, modern type of ware, famille verte enjoyed a widespread appeal and was produced for the domestic Chinese market as well as for export to Europe. Nowadays, famille verte can be found in museums, country houses, palaces and private collections all over Europe and the USA.
Foie gras (/ËfwÉËËÉ¡rÉË/ , French for fat liver) is a luxury food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened. By French law, foie gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by force-feeding corn with a feeding tube, a process also known as gavage.In Spain and other countries outside of France it is occasionally produced using natural feeding.ucks are typically slaughtered at 100 days and geese at 112 days. Foie gras is a popular and well-known delicacy in French cuisine. Its flavor is described as rich, buttery, and delicate, unlike that of an ordinary duck or goose liver.