In this issue

Ode to spring
by John Lewis-Stempel

The Prince of Wales’s message to the country
As sure as eggs is eggs: you can rely on them
London as you’ve never seen it before

Coming home to roost

The chickens are reprieved and it’s keep calm and carry on with the calving

3 mins

A sonnet to spring

Once believed to be summoned from slumber by birdsong, spring–from gambolling lambs to pale wood anemones and the rabbity-nosed velvet of ash buds– is a season of timeless joy for John Lewis-Stempel

5 mins

London In lockdown

In all of its 2,000-year history, it seems unlikely that the City of London has ever stood so silent as it does presently. Can we learn from the quiet, asks Architectural Editor John Goodall

5 mins

How Do You Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

How do you achieve the perfect scramble or poach? How can you tell if an egg is addled? And is that double-yolker lucky or a harbinger of death? Claire Jackson divulges all

6 mins

Prints charming

Why textiles block printed by hand are all the rage

2 mins

He's a blooming talent

A rising star of the gardening world on chicken-friendly gardening and admirable women

5 mins

A play on contrasts

The Old Rectory, Litton Cheney, Dorset With the help of Arne Maynard, the many and varying elements of this four-acre garden, once the home of engraver Reynolds Stone, have been beautifully drawn together.

4 mins

For peat's sake

A bog can store 10 times more carbon than a forest; calling a halt to the use of peat-based products in horticulture is long overdue

4 mins

Waving the virtual paddle

Online auctions prove successful across the country, from a French nobleman to English watercolours and a stuffed Adélie penguin from Capt Scott’s fatal expedition.

4 mins

Imagining antiquity

In the 300th anniversary year of Piranesi’s birth, Huon Mallalieu considers the architectural fantasies of one of the most widely recognised names in 18th-century Italian art

3 mins

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