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.

Ode to the English garden

Good week for

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

Proof of a nation’s love

Athena • Glasgow’s magnificent temple to the Arts

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Greg Pickup

The majesty of slate • Silenced Welsh quarries evoke a vanishing world

Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

Gray’s monument

What they said

Risen from the ashes • The Japanese Garden at Cowden, Clackmannanshire The ancestral home of Sara Stewart Described in 1925 as the most important Japanese garden in the West, the garden fell into decline and was eventually closed in 1955. Now, it has been magnificently restored, reveals Caroline Donald

Treasures from South Africa • Clusters of delicate flowers, often in muted colours, will bloom for several months, making tulbaghia an irresistible garden plant, writes

Low life • Shallow pots for succulents, alpines, seeds and more, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Daffodils • For the finest selection of best-quality bulbs, Tilly Ware recommends the Cornish family-run nursery Scamps Daffodils

Neither beautiful nor useful

English Home, part IX 1800–37 • Each month of this 125th-anniversary year, COUNTRY LIFE illustrates a period in the development of the English great house. In the ninth of this 12-part series, John Goodall looks at developments during the Regency

Testing boundaries • We are a nation of hedge lovers- and rightly so–but there are myriad traditional means of dividing land and containing livestock that are both charming and a boon to wildlife. Octavia Pollock reports

A plum job • For Tom Parker Bowles, nothing beats devouring a freshly picked and sun-warmed plum in a shady sylvan bower, with the juice dribbling down his chin

Fall into autumn • Change is in the air, says Hetty Lintell, whose favourite season is with us

Pattern power • New fabrics and wallpapers to bring a room to life, chosen by Amelia Thorpe

End of an era at Adlington • After 700 years in one family, the great Cheshire estate, complete with Grade I-listed hall, is on the market

Elsewhere in Cheshire

Gardening leave • From deep borders to generous fruit orchards, elegant topiary and botanical terraces, these country houses offer the prettiest of gardens

Little frizzle and other spooky stories • Now a thriving tourist spot, the Isle of Mull was once a perilous place to survive–particularly if you stumbled upon its multitude of myths and magic, believes Helen Fields

What the thunder said • On the 100th anniversary of its publication, Julie Harding asks why T. S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, with its devastating vision of a broken modern civilisation, still resonates so strongly today

From Russia, with love

Vintage buttons are a girl’s best friend • In a world where everything is increasingly durable and worryingly disposable, those making quirky accessories from cast-offs are doing both the planet and our wardrobes a favour, says Claire Jackson

War and poetry • Books galore enliven the summer sales, from illustrations of the...