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My favourite painting Tahir Shah • Major Wilfred Thesiger, DSO by Anthony Devas
Return of the woolly menaces • The over-wintering lambs are both a satisfaction and a headache
The Pagoda, Kew Gardens
Blue-sky thinking • Glasshouses are finding a dual purpose as homes not only for plants, but for sun-starved people, too, says Caroline Donald
Awesome alpines • For an excellent selection of the finest auriculas, Tilly Ware recommends the Suffolk nursery Woottens
The first of many • Ian Morton celebrates the remarkable Fanny Rollo Wilkinson, the first woman in the country to become a professional landscape gardener
Take a stand • Shelves and supports for displaying plants, selected by Amelia Thorpe
Bags of colour • Kendra Wilson visits the tulip farms of Lincolnshire, where local growers, such as Smith & Munson, nurture more than 200 million tulips every season
Getting a few words in hedgewise
All aboard for Ironhenge! • Fawley Hill, Buckinghamshire, part I The home of Lady McAlpine and the late Sir William McAlpineAn astonishing assemblage of buildings, machinery and memorabilia is testimony to one man’s remarkable enthusiasm for the railways, as Marcus Binney discovers in the first of two articles
Native breeds Welsh cob
Hot under the collar • Dog collars have changed little since they came into use some 8,000 years ago, although some decorative examples have dripped with embellishments, from bells to hardstone intaglios, as Matthew Dennison discovers
Are you stark raven mad? • Edgar Allan Poe’s muse, Charles Dickens’s companion and Shakespeare’s messenger of doom: is there a more powerful presence in the natural or literary world than the raven, asks Ian Morton
On bended knee • Engagement rings needn’t be traditional, explains Hetty Lintell, even if the proposal is
The designer’s room • Lucy Cunningham employed a light touch in the decoration of this drawing room overlooking the Slad Valley
How sociable is your sofa? • The convivial and space-efficient joys of the corner sofa
First stars of 2023 • The launch onto the market of three notable early-Georgian houses highlights their enduring appeal
Green is the warmest colour • Spring is on the way, so best get yourself a garden to appreciate it in
Kitchen garden cook Parsnips
Cometh the hour, cometh the villain • Great baddies make a novel, capturing the imagination in ways that well-meaning heroes often fail to do. Catriona Gray selects seven literary fiends whose dastardly deeds are never forgotten
In the company of risk takers
Brussels sprouts into life • Belgium is marking 2023 as the year of Art Nouveau
Sauce for the goose •...