Country Life UK - February 19, 2025

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Power games and the battle for beauty: The switch to renewable energy must not be allowed to usher in a relentless march of pylons across the British countryside, argues Simon Jenkins.
The legacy: Kate Green celebrates the Revd Gilbert White, the original ecologist whose 1789 book on flora and fauna has never been out of print.

Follow the yellow brick road

\"IN the 100th year since the death of the man who saved the daffodil I from extinction, the RHS hopes to safeguard the bulb from the perils of a changing climate.

1 min

Picasso's mystery lady

A MYSTERIOUS woman has been discovered A under underneath Picasso's Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901).

1 min

Capital Roman legacy

THE remains of London's original Roman THE remains of London's original Roman development of No 85, Gracechurch Street, London EC3.

2 mins

Centuries of starlight

ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH has been awarded a £1.25 million grant from to transform the visitor experience at the Royal Observatory.

1 min

Power games and the battle for beauty

The Government’s plan to cover the countryside in ugly pylons with seemingly no regard for aesthetics must be vigorously challenged

4 mins

A sense of delight

The Aldourie estate, Inverness-shire The process of stitching together the architectural fabric of a Scottish estate has created an outstanding group of new and restored buildings, as John Goodall explains

7 mins

Mad as a box of frogs

With genes that bear an uncanny resemblance to our own, our amphibious frog friends have aided medical advances and captivated many cultures with their mystical powers, discovers Ian Morton

4 mins

Snakes and snails and puppy-dog tales

Two kindred spirits made it their lives’ work to collect the smallest great poems of the world’s literature’, preserving for children the nursery rhymes, games and fairy tales no longer handed down by their mothers

4 mins

The ghost of golden daffodils

The flower remains the national emblem of Wales, but how many today are aware of the true Welsh or Tenby daffodil

5 mins

Kentish variety

Renovations, showjumping and archbishops lend character to two period properties

5 mins

Shaping the view

Shaping the view The Cart House, near Boddington, Northamptonshire A Modernist garden was exactly the right choice for this newly converted agricultural building

4 mins

The lure of Venice

Vedute, the kaleidoscopic views of the maritime republic made popular by Canaletto, so enchanted the British that they not only collected them in large numbers, but soon began painting their own shimmering visions of the city

5 mins

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