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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Still in fashion • As the Royal Hospital Chelsea gears up to host the delayed flower show, Carla Passino takes a look at the area’s long and stylish history, Mary Quant included

THE UPS AND DOWNS

At home in Chelsea

Seasonal suggestions

Here’s looking at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Good News • 23, BERWICK STREET, W1

A green space • HORNIMAN MUSEUM AND GARDENS, 100, LONDON ROAD, SE23

London curiosities • ON THE FACE OF IT

Pass it on

Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, Kingly Court, W1

September at a glance • We’re all guilty of ignoring what’s on our doorstep, so we’ve made it easier for you. Here’s what’s happening this month

SKY-HIGH PLANTING • With the cost of land at a premium as the benefits of Nature and green space become ever more compelling, roof gardens are having their moment in the sun, says Natasha Goodfellow

TIPS AND TRICKS

Martha, Lady Sitwell • The model, muse and designer talks to Flora Watkins about getting her hair cut at Harrods and taking her dogs to 5, Hertford Street

Miss Laura May Collett

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The sea, the sea

Bad week for

Going, going, gone...

Good week for

To beaver or not to beaver?

Lost and found

An interesting train of thought

Country Mouse • Weather wiles

Town Mouse • Council scheming

Oh, the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • September ,

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

Wines of the week

Contact us (photographs welcome)

Bowled over

Letters to the Editor

Take us as you find us

A chance to taste the medicine of the soul

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Leonie Benesch • Tamara in a Green Bugatti by Tamara de Lempicka

A moorland mystery • The people who manage the evocative Dartmoor landscape are facing challenges

The History Boys

Life on stage

What they said

On the record

All the gears and no idea • The presenter on the realities of farming and why rock stars should run the countryside

Admiration and intimacy • From 1661 until his death in 1715, Louis XIV invested huge sums of money transforming Versailles into a palace that commanded international admiration. Philip Mansel considers the response of English visitors to this astonishing creation

Purple reign • It’s September and the grapes hang heavy on the vine, ripe for treading, explains Amy Jeffs

Straight from the horse’s mouth • Equus caballus has served us for millennia on the land, the battlefield and in the sporting arena, so it’s no wonder our passion for our trusty steeds remains unbridled, says John Lewis-Stempel

Where champions are made • After Britain’s triumphant equestrian Olympics, there is a chance to watch the...