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Country Life UK
The foreshadowing of the watercolourists
Huon Mallalieu finds both the familiar and some unexpected, exquisite discoveries among the forerunners of the English School
4 min |
January 20, 2021
Country Life UK
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 min |
January 20, 2021
Country Life UK
Striking out
The director of the Garden Museum on wild swimming, skyscrapers and damp
5 min |
January 20, 2021
Country Life UK
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 min |
January 20, 2021
Country Life UK
The designer's room
Douglas Mackie invoked Sir John Soane and Nancy Lancaster in his scheme for this Belgravia dining room
1 min |
January 20, 2021
Country Life UK
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 min |
January 20, 2021
Country Life UK
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 min |
January 20, 2021
Country Life UK
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 min |
January 20, 2021
Country Life UK
You'll Never Walk Alone
Grafham Water is alive with human and avian company
3 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
If You Go Down To The Jungle Today
On a trip to Africa’s self-proclaimed safest country, John Goodall finds a Rwanda free from the grip of its turbulent past and comes face-to-face with two of its most astonishing and heavily protected residents
6 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
The lands that time forgot
Britain is full of hidden treasures, from haunted forests to flower-filled meadows, secret stone circles and saintly volcanoes. Annunciata Elwes tours 50 lesser-known treasures of this country to tick off in 2021
10+ min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
The sweet taste of success
We’ve all done it: eased the lid from the golden tin, only for a cloud of powdered sugar to erupt over the car. Amazingly, A. L. Simpkin’s sweets have now been our faithful travel companions for 100 years, reports Julie Harding
4 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
When Gounod met Georgina
When, 150 years ago, the French composer encountered the voluptuous singing teacher, sparks flew and London and Paris were agog. Henrietta Bredin recounts the tale of their short-lived, but tumultuous relationship
5 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
Three cheers for British spuds
FOR a few years now, most of the potatoes I’ve grown have been nutty, early, French salad potatoes.
4 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
Looking forward, looking back
In the first of a new monthly series, Amy Jeffs reflects on the medieval pastime of January: feasting with family and friends
2 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
Don't try this at home
The five-day office week is a thing of the past. Emma Hughes rounds up the best places to work from, beyond the kitchen table
3 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
Given the green light
A new-found love for space, quiet and Nature is driving growth in the prime countryside market
7 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
A charming anomaly - Rosebery House, Midlothian The home of Lord Dalmeny
A late-Georgian shooting lodge became the favoured retreat of the Victorian Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. It escaped ambitious remodelling at his hands and has recently been the object of sympathetic restoration, as John Martin Robinson reports
8 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
A blisteringly good border - Aston Pottery, Oxfordshire
Every single one of the 5,000 plants in this 200ft-long annual bed has been sown and raised from seed. Val Bourne discovers the secrets behind this astonishing achievement
5 min |
January 06, 2021
Country Life UK
If the wig fits
Rugby boys in dresses, bankers in tights, aristocrats in full Mars and Venus regalia: why do we Britons shed all inhibitions in the face of fancy dress, asks Kit Hesketh-Harvey
4 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
The top 10
From grande dames to brand-new boltholes and everything in between, COUNTRY LIFE rounds up the hotels and villas that should be top of your wishlist in 2021
10+ min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
The big picture
THE world’s largest island (home to the world’s largest national park) hit the headlines in 2019 when the 45th US President announced he wanted to buy it. Unfortunately for Donald Trump, the sale didn’t go through (not that the place was ever up for grabs anyway). Fortunately for Greenland, there’s no such thing as bad press.
1 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
Through the lens
Wildlife cameraman Bertie Gregory has travelled all over the world in pursuit of the perfect shot. He talks to Rosie Paterson about a few of his favourite moments
4 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
Parental guidance
Gap years no longer mean saying goodbye to your offspring for months at a time. Giles Kime jumps on the bandwagon and joins his daughter on her long-haul travels
4 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
Murder in the cathedral
Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was famously murdered in Canterbury Cathedral exactly 850 years ago. John Goodall revisits this brutal event and considers its consequences
5 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
Climbing to new heights
If you don’t want to spend the winter perched up a ladder, consider planting a modern climbing rose, which gives you more flowers for longer from less ground space, advises Charles Quest-Ritson
6 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
Go with the tide
Nigel Tisdall falls for northern India aboard a luxury river cruise on the country’s greatest sacred river
3 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
An Irish inferno
Between 1919 and 1923, in the War of Independence and the subsequent civil war, nearly 300 country houses were burned in Ireland. To mark the centenary of the events, Terence Dooley re-appraises the motives behind this destruction
8 min |
December 30, 2020
Country Life UK
Who killed cock robin?
Referred to by Chaucer as ‘Robert redbreast’ and long a cheerful symbol of Christmas, the sweet-songed robin is so combative it will attack its own reflection, reveals Ian Morton
6 min |
December 16 - 23, 2020
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Because You're Mine, I Walk The Line
Crunching across winter stubble on a frosty December morning, John Lewis-Stempel gives thanks for the wildlife sustained by the old millet stalks and endeavors to train his labrador to walk to heel, aided by a handful of cheese
4 min |