In this issue

Tessy Ojo’s favourite painting
The head of The Diana Award picks a pair of powerful women.

Natural magic
Bonnington House, Edinburgh, famous as the home of Jupiter Artland, is set in spectacular gardens, finds Caroline Donald.

A load of old cobbles
Nostalgically pleasing to the eye, cobblestones were an equine saviour, reveals Harry Pearson..

Scents and sensitivity

As he observes his cows on a warm August day, John Lewis-Stempel allows himself to be led by the nose and discovers that weather whiffing is no dark art, but proper science

4 mins

The Lady of Shalott

SEVERAL years ago, the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) staged a major exhibition on J. W. Waterhouse—and what a feast for the eyes it was.

3 mins

Romance realised Ardfin estate, Isle of Jura, Argyll and Bute, part I

A Victorian shooting lodge has been stylishly recast as the heart of a modern estate. In the first of two articles, Clive Aslet reports on this remarkable project

7 mins

When the saints go marching in

With his heart set on ‘pilgrim-ing’ through the Highlands–one of Europe’s most beautiful landscapes–Joe Gibbs retraces St Columba’s footsteps to Iona, little knowing that a bout of norovirus is about to hinder his best-laid plans

6 mins

Island escape

With a host of accommodation and sporting activities to suit everyone, from families to couples, the Benmore estate is a remote paradise full of natural wonders to explore

2 mins

Bring me my bow

Sir Walter Scott’s legacy lives on as The Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland, The Royal Company of Archers, celebrates its bicentenary on a joyful royal occasion. Jamie Blackett brushes off his uniform

5 mins

From sea to shining sea

On the 200th anniversary of the opening of Thomas Telford’s Caledonian Canal, Mary Miers explores the greatest manmade marvel of the Highlands

6 mins

Pride of Scotland

Lochs, burns, wild mountains, cattle, fishing, shooting and grouse moors: Scotland has it all in spades, as these properties show

7 mins

A load of old cobbles

Sweetly evocative of a past we never knew, but a nightmare for cyclists, cobbled streets were once a lifesaver for our working horses, explains Harry Pearson

3 mins

Natural magic - The private garden at Bonnington House, near Edinburgh The home of Mr and Mrs Wilson

Arabella Lennox-Boyd has designed a garden of underlying structure overlaid with colour and charm creating many different areas, each with its own personality, discovers Caroline Donald

5 mins

Heavenly hydrangeas

EVERYTHING in the garden year is subject to the lengthening and shortening of the day. After the peak in late June, the early starters fade away into the background and we find ourselves thinking, well, that’s it for another year.

3 mins

Stick it to me

Now brushed aside as a weed with an irritating propensity for attaching itself to clothing, goosegrass was once welcomed with open arms, thanks to its medicinal properties, finds Ian Morton

4 mins

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