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Masterpiece Jack Watkins salutes Sir John Vanbrugh’s exuberant Baroque creation, Blenheim Palace. Chelsea as we have never seen it before Rich hues and new stands: the autumn Chelsea is worth visiting, believes Kathryn Bradley-Hole. Growing for gold The greatest garden designer is as nothing without top-quality plants, explains Val Bourne..
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Best Autumn And Winter Escapes Across The World
Whether you’d rather take to the slopes or relax by the pool, Holly Kirkwood has the pick of autumn and winter escapes across the world
Into the blue
As one of the rarest gemstones, Paraíba tourmalines are getting rarer and even more desirable, reveals Joanna Hardy
Give us a clue
Can you explain what hair ice, cramp balls and pillow mounds are? If not, don’t worry–naturalist John Wright has all the answers to our most unusual countryside mysteries
Wild for magic mushrooms
No, not the fungi that inspire hallucinations, cautions Tom Parker Bowles, but do take the time to seek out divine-tasting ceps and chanterelles on the forest floor
The man who turned the tide
The first and last member of Enterprise Neptune on mapping the British coast
Fit for a king
Palaces around the world epitomise their countries’ varied architectural styles. Arabella Youens is enchanted
The lay of the land
As people moved into towns, they wanted peaceful depictions of rural life on their parlour walls, leading artists to look at farming through sepia-tinted spectacles
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
IT is impossible to calculate the number of roses which are climbing up old apple trees as a result of visits to Sissinghurst,’ wrote the late Anne Scott-James, author of the best-selling Sissinghurst—The Making of a Garden. Despite its country-house setting conferring a scale beyond that of the most amply proportioned cottage garden, Sissinghurst’s inspirational hold on amateur gardeners spans the generations, because its creator Vita Sackville-West was, or at least started out as, a novice gardener herself.
Easy does it
Despite classic proportions and lofty ceilings, Sophie Conran’s country house in Wiltshire blends comfort with intimacy
Building back better
Sizeable estates in the New Forest and Cotswolds rarely seen on the market show the benefit of improvement over centuries
