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Country Life’s top 10 gardens articles of 2024
From the gardens of A-listers and crazed plant hunters to tips on compost, we covered it all in 2024. Charles Quest-Ritson admitted in April that he never fell for orchids the way he has for roses — ...
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Charles Quest-Ritson: Walnuts are one of the gardener’s greatest pleasures — but you’ll have to be ready for the squirrels
Once you are hooked by walnuts and want to grow more varieties, you find an extraordinary amount of choice. Charles Quest-Ritson explains more.
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‘A robin redbreast in a cage puts all Heaven in a rage’: Why this charming little bird is the nation’s favourite
We’re more emotionally connected to the robin than any other bird, says Mark Cocker, as he considers why we feel so much ...
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Thomas Hardy and the country house: ‘Irregularity is the genius of Gothic architecture’
With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the ...
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The special magic of a frozen garden in winter
Waking up to discover the garden transformed by a short, sharp hoar frost is a magical experience. Tiffany Daneff looks at ...
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The cathedral choirmaster: ‘The thing I love about the Christmas repertoire is the mix of modern and ancient’
Today's piece in our series on the people who make Christmas in the country sees Kate Green meet Tim Parsons at Wells ...
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Dawn Chorus: ‘The most beautiful car in the world’ made both better, and worse, all at once; best mince pies; and our quiz of the day
A roofless conversion of an E-Type, Disney fever dream and more in this morning's Dawn Chorus round-up.
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The gamekeeper: ‘I’ve lost count of the school plays that I made by the skin of my teeth’
Our series on the people who make Christmas in the country what it is continues as Paula Lester meets Andrew Holloway.
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‘Look out! Look out! Jack Frost is about!’
Variously described as ‘wearing a cloak of silver’ and looking like ‘a hoary old man’, Jack Frost has attracted many artistic depictions over the centuries — some more positive than others.
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The wine merchant: ‘We’re all shattered by the time we close at 3pm on Christmas Eve’
In the last of our series on the people who make Christmas in the country what it is, Paula Lester speaks to wine merchant Tom Ashworth. It’s perhaps not terribly surprising that Tom Ashworth ended up ...
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The award-winning cook who makes 5,000 Christmas puddings a year, every single one of them by hand
Kate Green talks to Wizz Gambier, the woman who lives and breathes Christmas puddings, in our series on the people who make ...
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The best wedding pictures you’ll ever see, what’s the point of a law you don’t enforce and talking about gin with James May
‘WildFish and its legal team will now be watching extremely closely what the Government, the Environment Agency and Ofwat now ...