In this issue

Seeds of life
What to sow for a gorgeous garden this year.

The man who grew the most valuable snowdrop
The sculptor who works underwater
‘My darling child’: Repton’s favourite landscape

Striking out

The director of the Garden Museum on wild swimming, skyscrapers and damp

5 mins

Plant Some Colour This Year

Brighten up the kitchen garden by sowing seeds of crimson-flowered broad beans, purple cabbages and lime-green Romanesco cauliflower, suggests Steven Desmond

5 mins

The galanthophile's galanthophile

Joe Sharman started breeding snowdrops before anyone else and, after 10 years of meticulous work, he created the most expensive snowdrop ever sold. Today, he continues his quest for ever more curious and enchanting variations, finds John Grimshaw

4 mins

Inside the catmint trial

Under the auspices of the RHS, dedicated plant committees and trials teams grow different varieties of the same plants under controlled conditions, providing gardeners with unrivalled information. Judge Val Bourne reports from the Nepeta Trial

6 mins

The apogee of English taste

In the second of two articles, Jeremy Musson looks at the restoration of an outstanding Regency house and its garden, both integrally conceived with a celebrated Repton landscape

9 mins

Beneath The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

Fashioned from driftwood, barbed wire, sea urchins and barnacle-encrusted plastic mannequins, Earl Granville’s eclectic sculptures are inspired by the Hebridean island of North Uist’s wild weather and terrain, discovers David Profumo

6 mins

The designer's room

Douglas Mackie invoked Sir John Soane and Nancy Lancaster in his scheme for this Belgravia dining room

1 min

Fresh fields and pastures new

Farms and estates are more popular than ever, both as investments and as places to escape the rigours of city life

5 mins

The foreshadowing of the watercolourists

Huon Mallalieu finds both the familiar and some unexpected, exquisite discoveries among the forerunners of the English School

4 mins

A life in oils

Keith Pask’s lifelong passion for painting burns as brightly today as it did during the Second World War, thanks, in part, to the pages of COUNTRY LIFE. Nick Hammond meets this remarkable nonagenarian

3 mins

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