Country Life UK Magazine - September 11, 2024Add to Favorites

Country Life UK Magazine - September 11, 2024Add to Favorites

Go Unlimited with Magzter GOLD

Read Country Life UK along with 9,000+ other magazines & newspapers with just one subscription  View catalog

1 Month $9.99

1 Year$99.99 $49.99

$4/month

Save 50%
Hurry, Offer Ends in 2 Days
(OR)

Subscribe only to Country Life UK

1 Year $159.99

Save 38%

Buy this issue $4.99

Gift Country Life UK

7-Day No Questions Asked Refund7-Day No Questions
Asked Refund Policy

 ⓘ

Digital Subscription.Instant Access.

Digital Subscription
Instant Access

Verified Secure Payment

Verified Secure
Payment

In this issue

Make your garden glow
Rock god: George Harrison’s garden
Going underground: the bulbs to plant now

Happiness in small things

Putting life into perspective and forces of nature in farming

Happiness in small things

3 mins

The summit of achievement

The garden at Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire The home of Olivia and the late George Harrison

The summit of achievement

6 mins

How to time travel to spring

The anticipation of cheerful spring bulbs can keep the gardener going through the dull winter months. John Hoyland advises on what to plant for every situation, from gravel to orchards, sun, shade or in pots

How to time travel to spring

6 mins

The shadows fall

SEPTEMBER brings a strange surge of energy, gleaming cosmos and dahlias and all those rusty, dry, hairy plants: echinacea, rudbeckia, zinnias.

The shadows fall

3 mins

Put a smile on your garden

John Hoyland celebrates the renewed popularity of the irrepressibly cheerful pelargonium

Put a smile on your garden

4 mins

Civic splendour

St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry A property of Coventry City Council

Civic splendour

8 mins

Sing on, sweet bird

An essential component of our emotional relationship with the landscape, the mellifluous song of a thrush shapes the very foundation of human happiness, notes Mark Cocker, as he takes a closer look at this diverse family of birds

Sing on, sweet bird

6 mins

Let's get to the bottom of this

Discovering a well on your property can be viewed as a blessing or a curse, but all's well that ends well, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee, as she examines the benefits of a personal water supply

Let's get to the bottom of this

5 mins

Bravery bevond belief

A teenager on his gap year who saved a boy and his father from being savaged by a crocodile is one of a host of heroic acts celebrated in a book to mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Humane Society, says its author Rupert Uloth

Bravery bevond belief

4 mins

I was on fire for you, where did you go?

In Iceland, a land with no monks or monkeys, our correspondent attempts to master the art of fishing light’ for Salmo salar, by stroking the creases and dimples of the Midfjardara river like the features of a loved one

I was on fire for you, where did you go?

5 mins

Lights, camera, action!

Three remarkable country houses, two of which have links to the film industry, the other the setting for a top-class croquet tournament, are anything but ordinary

Lights, camera, action!

5 mins

Bullace for you

The distinction between plums, damsons and bullaces is sweetly subtle, boiling down to flavour and aesthetics, but don’t eat the stones, warns John Wright

Bullace for you

3 mins

The colour revolution

Toxic, dull or fast-fading pigments had long made it tricky for artists to paint verdant scenes, but the 19th century ushered in a viridescent explosion of waterlili

The colour revolution

6 mins

'Without fever there is no creation'

Three of the top 10 operas performed worldwide are by the emotionally volatile Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, who died a century ago. Henrietta Bredin explains how his colourful life influenced his melodramatic plot lines

'Without fever there is no creation'

4 mins

Read all stories from Country Life UK

Country Life UK Magazine Description:

PublisherFuture

CategoryLifestyle

LanguageEnglish

FrequencyWeekly

Country Life; architecture, gardens, countryside, property, the very best of British life Published by IPC Media. Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

  • cancel anytimeCancel Anytime [ No Commitments ]
  • digital onlyDigital Only