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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Of birds and bees
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Some 2021 winners
It’s a numbers game
Longleat off long leave
Through a glass brightly
Good week for
Bad week for
A smash hit
Crayfish out of water
Speak now for a greener future
Making roots
Country Mouse • The ties that bind
Town Mouse • The art of embarrassment
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • March 25, 1922
Oh, the agony! • Agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas
Town & Country Notebook
In the spotlight • Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Wines of the week
Prim and proper
Letters to the Editor
We need open consultation
Challenging destruction in Ukraine
The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive
Charlotte Mullins comments on The Adoration of the Magi
My Family and Other Animals
Connecting with Nature
What they said
Rhododendron heaven • In its centenary year, Ramster’s reputation continues to grow–together with its magnificent woodland garden, reveals Charles Quest-Ritson
The Aberconway gardeners
Spring fever • Get the garden ready for the warmer months ahead with new furniture and accessories, chosen by Amelia Thorpe
The narcissi you cannot do without
Horticultural aide-mémoire
The protector of cherry trees • Val Bourne tells the extraordinary story of the creation by a Japanese schoolteacher of a new race of flowering cherries, which is now available in this country
The history of Japanese cherries
Cherry picks
ENGLISH HOMES OLD & NEW English Home part III Early Tudor 1485–1560 • Each month of this 125th anniversary year, COUNTRY LIFE illustrates a period in the development of the English great house, from the Middle Ages to the present day. In the third of this 12-part series, John Goodall looks at the architecture of the Tudor home
For he’s a jolly good Fell • A royal favourite, the hardy and hairy little Fell pony can pull a sledge, emerge alive after weeks in a snowdrift and win hearts with a glance. Julie Harding celebrates the breed society’s 100th anniversary
Fascinating facts about Fells
Kitchen garden cook Potatoes
More ways with new potatoes
The trees that shape our land • A new book from the National Trust celebrates 50 of the greatest trees in its care, from a champion chestnut to a Dorset beech avenue. Here, we pick a few of the most remarkable and beautiful
Let it fly • At the start of the new fly-fishing season, our correspondent confesses to being a ‘possibilitarian’, who fishes as often as he can wherever fish are to be found
The sound of spring • March’s spring equinox is invariably optimistic, as winter likes to cling on, says
Mother hen • Show your appreciation in style, says Hetty Lintell
Bathing in beauty • Elegant baths, vanities and accessories to add a touch of luxury to your bathroom, selected by Amelia Thorpe
Bathrooms in bloom • Bathrooms are being warmed up with a deluge of pattern and...