Country Life UK - September 25, 2019

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Setting a green example From water fountains to biodiversity and beach cleans, Guernsey is embracing sustainability, finds Carla Passino.

In Renoir’s footsteps The great French artist put Guernsey on the map with his beguiling paintings. Holly Kirkwood finds out how the island is marking the centenary of his death.

Animal Magic - Derek Gow And Water Voles

As a small boy in Scotland, Derek Gow would fish for minnows with his brother.

2 mins

A Rite Of Passage - The Garden Of Radcot House, Oxfordshire

Twenty years ago, the Stainers knew nothing about gardening, but that did not put them off trying to bring order to the wilderness they inherited. George Plumptre applauds the results

5 mins

The Allium List

Alliums are statuesque, reliable and immensely useful, but which varieties should you choose? Val Bourne asks three experts to recommend their favourites

4 mins

Beyond The Ha-ha

Juliet Roberts talks to five designers about how to make your garden merge with the landscape

3 mins

Men In Tights

Whether your loyalties lay with Superman, Captain America, Dennis the Menace or Desperate Dan, comics were an integral part of childhood. As Batman turns 80, Katy Birchall salutes these iconic characters

6 mins

Dressing The Virgin Queen

The only known surviving fragment of Elizabeth I’s wardrobe has been hiding in plain sight for 400 years, discovers Catriona Gray

3 mins

Fit For A Royal Feast

A banqueting house built to welcome George I miraculously escaped destruction in the early 20th century and has been splendidly restored. William Aslet reports Photographs by Will Pryce

8 mins

A New Lease Of Life

Longer life expectancies mean we have decades left to enjoy after the children have flown the nest. Perhaps it’s time for a change, suggests Holly Kirkwood

3 mins

Questions Of Creation

Craft becomes art, as reality fails to live up to an artistic vision and Abstraction is rejected at Frieze Masters

4 mins

A River Runs Through It

Matthew Rice is inspired by the work of a Norfolk artist who is keeping the English tradition of good landscape painting alive

3 mins

The Loveliest Music You've Never Heard

The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Isle of Noises season aims to redress the unfair marginalisation of many 20th-century British composers and their melodic music.

4 mins

Stop And Smell The Pages

Romantic, thoughtful and practical, this part-diary, part-handbook on fragrant planting is one of the best gardening books John Hoyland has read for years

9 mins

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