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.

Miss Grace Hardiman

A blooming shame

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Country Life

He who laughs last

How to shape our heritage

Hedge your bets

Don’t look down

Good week for

Bad week for

The real Downton Abbey

No more dog snatching

Waxcapping lyrical

Country Mouse • Oh my gourd

Town Mouse • A shortage of passengers

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE September 17, 1921

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

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Common starfish (Asterias rubens)

Wines of the week

Letter of the week • The view from a loo

Letters to the Editor

Promises, promises

Ease is not everything if parishes suffer

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

Portrait of Mrs Gainsborough by Gainsborough

How to avoid a chainsaw massacre • Why foresters have to be a hardy breed

Blenheim Palace

Leap of faith

What they said

Chelsea as we have never seen it before • Kathryn Bradley-Hole presents our guide to the highlights of the most eagerly anticipated Chelsea Flower Show in decades

More to see

Growing for gold • It is the designer who gets the applause, but behind every successful Chelsea show garden is a nursery that supplies the plants. Val Bourne meets the busy Mark Straver of Hortus Loci

Five key plants for an autumn Chelsea Flower Show

Natural splendour • Val Bourne finds out the secrets behind the astonishing swathes of naturalised bulbs grown at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire

Narcissi at Waddesdon

Tulips from Waddesdon • Good tulips to plant with narcissus

Tulip fever • Pots look simple, but it takes a bit of planning to create a balanced display for five weeks of colour in spring. Designer Angel Collins shows how to do it

Care notes

Flowers for Christmas

Horticultural aide-mémoire • Sow grass

A Baroque banquet • One of the most spectacular garden buildings of the English Baroque–as well as the architect that designed it–is ripe for reappraisal, says Helen Lawrence-Beaton

Once bitten, twice shy • Whether they bite, suck or sting, some insects are a downright pain in the arm, says Simon Lester, as he identifies the most troublesome little nippers

‘Through dead men’s eyes’ • The tradition of ‘eerie’ literature and art, invoking fear, unease and dread, has flourished in the shadows of British landscape culture for centuries, says Robert Macfarlane

The new COUNTRY LIFE carpet collection • COUNTRY LIFE has joined forces with Brintons to create a beautiful new range of textured carpets woven from undyed British wool, reveals Giles Kime

Brintons: making history

The beauty of British wool

Sleeping beauties • Three delightful family houses that have not come to the market in decades await new owners and new beginnings

A bite at the cherry • Houses both beautiful and bountiful in good old fruit and veg

Local hero The Chelsea regulars

Kitchen garden cook...