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 Rosalind Marion Purkis

Art in the sun

Country Life

A garden never stops growing

Their finest (half) hour

Burrell is back

Good week for

Bad week for

The ups and downs of life as a hedgehog

Food for thought

Fair play?

Country Mouse • Weathering the storm

Town Mouse • Cards by candlelight

COUNTRY LIFE • February ,

Oh the agony! • Agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Common dogwood (Cornus sanguinea)

Wines of the week

Whim or genius?

Letters to the Editor

Tales of the unexpected

The future of a family home in doubt

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

Southdown sheep

The downland shepherds

What they said

In the thick of it • Wading through mud and rueing February for its fickle nature, with frost one day and rain the next, John Lewis-Stempel takes a moment to admire the heron’s ability to keep clean in the mire

Charlotte Mullins comments on Still Life

This is me • In a bid for immortality, painters through the ages have returned to the face they know best. Yet these self-portraits are not necessarily a window into the artist’s soul, believes Matthew Dennison

Youthful vulnerability: Stanley Spencer's Self-Portrait, 1914

Through the looking glass ( above )

Love or lustre? • Inspired by the East Anglian countryside, a potter, poet and songwriter is reinterpreting shimmering Persian lustreware for the modern age, finds Lucien de Guise

In the making: Private White V. C. • ‘We take quality, craftsmanship and provenance very seriously, and handcraft everything in house’

Luxury Notebook • Cheerful bags for spring

A few of my favourite things

Good enough to paint • Mesmerising opals, set by master jewellers

The designer's room • This characterful, hard-working space has been carved out of a 16th-century coaching inn near Bath

Big in a small way • Patterned chairs, headboards and ottomans make a stylish statement

By royal example • A grand house ‘practically in the palace gardens’ of Hampton Court and another on the site of a royal hunting lodge in Oxfordshire show how to live the good life

Power to the people • Long gone is the Thames-side wasteland–a new neighbourhood is thriving and the transformation of its centrepiece, Battersea Power Station, completes in September

It's all in the detail

Plantaholic heaven • The Coach House, Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire The garden of Mr and Mrs Nicholas Tanner It’s no surprise that the garden belonging to the organiser of The Specialist Plant Fairs is filled with very special plants, but it is the way they are displayed that really makes the site distinctive, finds Tiffany Daneff

Spring loaded

Horticultural aide-mémoire

Kitchen garden cook Leeks

More ways with Leeks

Experts : other registered arrowsmiths

To the point • An echo of a forgotten age, arrowsmith Will Sherman and his mongrel Bodkin spend their days in a Victorian forge...