In this issue

Blends with benefits
Change is brewing in Britain—Rob Crossan meets some of our leading tea sommeliers.

It’s a dog’s world
Arabella Youens learns how best to live with our four-legged friends.

An Oxford wonder
In the second of two articles, Clive Aslet looks at the furnishing of Jesuit Campion Hall in Oxford..

Protecting our own wild isles

The inspiring new Attenborough documentary should encourage us to look at–and protect–what we have on our own doorstep

3 mins

As thick as thieves

From piracy to hijacking and mugging, Nature abounds with all sorts of bad and condemnable behaviour, but some species have a real knack for stealing, as Ian Morton discovers

5 mins

Three times a legend

This year’s Grand National marks the 50th anniversary of Red Rum’s first win. Jack Watkins explains why we may never see his like again

3 mins

Blends with benefits

The British are very conservative when it comes to tea, but a gentle revolution is under way, spearheaded, in part, by a new breed of experts. Rob Crossan meets some of our best tea sommeliers to discuss the nation’s cuppa habits

10 mins

An eye to the future

Embarking on a new chapter in the history of an ancestral home requires patience, persistence and the right guidance, finds Kitty Galsworthy

3 mins

A lot of bottle

Jennifer Manners has spent three years developing a range of luxury rugs made from recycled water bottles, finds Arabella Youens

2 mins

If you go down to the woods today...

Isabella Worsley has designed interiors of treehouses in the grounds of Callow Hall in Derbyshire that are at one with their surroundings, finds Arabella Youens

1 min

It's a dog's world

What’s the best way to live side by side with our four-legged friends, asks Arabella Youens

6 mins

A place for everything

Why storage is more important than space

2 mins

Sip back and relax

Once relegated to the back of the drinks cabinet, vermouth is enjoying a fresh revival and not only as a traditional cocktail ingredient, says Jack Adair Bevan

5 mins

Sense and sensibilities

Knoyle Place, East Knoyle, Wiltshire The home of the Comtesse de La Morinière | The more you look, says Charles Quest-Ritson, the more there is to admire in this magnificent garden, which has been subtly and beautifully enhanced in recent decades

5 mins

Heavenly hepaticas

JOHN MASSEY is a happy man. His beaming face is familiar to plant lovers all over Britain and beyond. Plants have been the great love of his life—finding them, growing them, selecting them and selling the best

3 mins

A plum job

Once the mainstay of Cumbria’s Lyth and Winster valleys, damson orchards declined steeply after the Second World War. Tessa Waugh meets the farmers working hard to revive the fruit’s fortunes

4 mins

Dreamy spires

Foxgloves, which can be planted now, provide the perfect link between the garden and the countryside, says John Hoyland

5 mins

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