Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited 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 Edith Margaret Wallis-Adams • Edith is an undergraduate at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, where she is studying for a degree in Rural Land Management. She is the daughter of Alastair and Lisa Blaber of Old Park Farm, Kingsley, Hampshire.

Don’t go wild

Country Life

The original influencer

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

The deal for net zero

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Simon Martin

How to make land work harder • The Government’s Land Use Framework should be viewed as an opportunity to be smarter with our land, but conflicts need to be resolved along the way

A regal renewal • A house that received Charles II and inspired Charles Dickens has undergone a magnificent renewal over the past three decades, as John Goodall explains

The legacy • Charles Cruft and Crufts

Shiverme timbers • Ousted by fast-growing imports, the balletic black poplar could be a floodplain champion in the battle against climate change, argues Vicky Liddell

The year the stars came out • Boisterous, thriving and confident, Britain was a global heavyweight 250 years ago. Matthew Dennison explores the cultural luminaries who were born in 1775 and continue to shape our identity

The race is on • Ahead of the Cheltenham Festival, here are some tips from Hetty Lintell–for what to wear, of course. Any bets are your own domain

A horse walks into a bar… • An elite group of equine heroes of the Cheltenham Festival are remembered in the form of thronging watering holes at the racecourse. Lest racegoers should forget where they are during celebrations (or when drowning sorrows), Jack Watkins provides a guide to the brilliant horses that have earned such immortality

Cooking class • The latest kitchen ideas and inspiration, selected by Amelia Thorpe

If you go down to the woods today • In the High Weald, a Lutyens-inspired farmhouse and a state-of-the-art Huf Haus come to the market, together with a former royal hunting lodge that became a gunpowder factory in the New Forest

Ha-ha, tricked you! • Giving the impression of an endless vista, with 18th-century-style grandeur and the ability to keep pesky livestock off the roses, a ha-ha is a hugely desirable feature in any landscape. Just don’t fall off

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

London Life Need to Know

Flour power • LONDON LIFE contributors and friends of the magazine reveal where to find the capital’s best baked goods

Seafood, spinach and asparagus puff-pastry cloud

And it was all yellow • Forsythia are often sniffed at for being too brassy, but there is a lot more going for them, says Charles Quest-Ritson, although don’t plant them next to clashing pink-flowering currants

Things are hotting up

Sharp practice • Pruning roses in winter has become the norm, but why do we do it–and should we? Charles Quest-Ritson explains the reasoning underpinning this horticultural habit

Sweet escape • Beneath the papery bark of the birch tree lies a sugary resource, but be warned–it has a shelf life shorter than milk, says John Wright

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