Country Life

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd 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.

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Shoots of recovery

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Country Life

Ahoy there, Wrens

Good week for

Bad week for

Rural bullying is no game

Country Mouse • A weighty issue

Town Mouse • Cheering sarcasm

New York, New York • Resident agony uncle Kit Hesketh-Harvey solves your dilemmas

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • January 22, 1921

Time to buy

Book of the week • Secrets of a Devon Wood, Jo Brown (Short Books, £14.99)

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

The long and short of it

Muck and magic

I walk the lino

A good egg

A road without a view

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

Ira Aldridge as Othello, the Moor of Venice by James Northcote • John McEwen comments on Ira Aldridge as Othello, the Moor of Venice

A domesday for development • The white paper on planning promises to license untold damage to the British landscape, argues Simon Jenkins

Black cat brings bad luck for mice • Lockdown comes with unexpected benefits and a new family member

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

On the record

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

Pick up your pens

Horticultural aide memoire • Renovate shrubs

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

Garden finds • British companies offer a host of inspiring and practical products, says Amelia Thorpe

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

Where to buy

Far from common or garden • George Plumptre, chairman of the National Garden Scheme, picks his personal highlights for 2021

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

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

The designer's room • Douglas Mackie invoked Sir John Soane and Nancy Lancaster in his scheme for this Belgravia dining room

A touch of cheer • Colourful finds to brighten grey days, selected by Amelia Thorpe

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