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The Queen's 90th - Happy Birthday, Ma'am
Kate Green visits the team behind The Queen’s 90th-birthday celebrations at Royal Windsor Horse Show, which promises to be a spectacular and ambitious occasion.
Alexandra The Great
GEORGE V said: ‘Abroad is awful. I know. I’ve been.’ He much preferred holidaying up the road from us, at Sandringham.
The Lord Crathorne
John McEwen comments on Sir Charles Tennant Bt
Getting To Grips With November
THE November days draw in like a noose and the garden seems to slowly implode, losing all the things that gave it worth.
The Grate Debate
Wood-burning stove or open fire? Arabella Youens examines the pros and cons of both options
These Boots Are Made For Walking
EACH year, more than 350,000 pairs of boots tread the slopes of the Brecon Beacons.
The Pink Promise Of Spring
FOR some, it’s snowdrops; for others, wild garlic.
A Criminal Coldness
A star-studded and haunting play on the theme of good and evil impresses
Pick Your Poison
As far as Tom Parker Bowles is concerned, there are only five true cocktails– and none of them come with umbrellas, sparklers or a sugar overdose
My favourite painting Barb Jungr
Richard Sheridan IVth by Frank Bowling
Animal magic
Eleanor Hervey- Bathurst’s fallow buck
From Here To Eternity
Arabella Youens asks Chris and Nicola Cox how they create the heirlooms of the future.
Lands Of Hope And Glory
Could these two historic houses galvanise the market into action?
The Place Beneath The Pines
Cheval Blanc St-Tropez, France.
A Mediterranean Vision
The restoration of this neo-Classical villa and garden bring to life the extraordinary vision of Ferdinand Bac, an artist, writer and garden designer. Tim Richardson reports
Terroir Of Plenty
Being unplugged, seasonreliant and tapped into Nature sounds dangerously trendy, but is the way of life for swathes of France’s rural population. Arabella Youens investigates where to buy to live off the land
Bring Farming Back To Earth
A return to mixed farming systems, as well as educating the public about the value of well-managed livestock, is the best way to save our soils
Grape Expectations
John Lewis-Stempel visits the village of Cognac to learn how the eponymous digestif and the local wine, pineau, is made
But It's A Hyundai
The Korean Hyundai Santa Fe might not be as sought-after as some German four-wheel drives, but it should be, because it’s comfortable, refined and classy
Down To Earth
The RHS president on his hopes for the horticultural industry
The Great Survivor
For 140 years, the pioneering nursery McBean’s Orchids has set the gold standard ard and, today, it continues against great odds to create the finest blooms. Mark Griffiths celebrates its extraordinary achievements
The Grey Horse By Sir Alfred Munnings
John McEwen comments on The Grey Horse
The Revolution Is Coming
Robots, no set exams, artificial intelligence: is this the future of education? Angus Cater asks three public-school heads how they’re preparing pupils for a radically different world to the one their parents knew.
Storm Gathers On Farming's Horizon
FARMING bodies have expressed concerns at the prospect of leaving the EU with no trade agreement, because they believe it could damage British agriculture and undermine our food security.
The Age Of Supervet
TV’s new favourite vet on why animals deserve better and how he wants to change attitudes.
Where No One Has Gone Before
It’s a commonly held belief in these parts that West Cork, despite being a tad on the remote side, has something to offer no matter what your interests are. take Oliver, 13. Rocket-fuelled by a summer-holiday diet of old space movies—2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Planet of the Apes and so on—he’s given up earlier plans to become a pirate and now intends to be an astronaut.
The designer's room
Alidad has created a bathroom that combines modern comfort with Hollywood glamour.
Jam And Jerusalem
THE original Hartley’s jam factory on the outskirts of Liverpool and its village of 49 workers’ houses, neoGothic mortuary chapels at Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham, and a Grade II*-listed church in Leeds with additions by Pugin are among the Victorian Society’s top 10 buildings in desperate need of repair for 2018, released today.
A Dog Is Not Just For Christmas
LAST month, following the Lucy’s Law campaign—named for a Cavalier King Charles spaniel that was kept in a cage most of her life before being rescued from a Welsh puppy farm five years ago—Defra announced a ban on thirdparty puppy sales.
The Flight Into Egypt By Jacopo Bassano
John McEwen comments on The Flight into Egypt