How To Grow Your Own Pecan Pie

How To Grow Your Own Pecan Pie

One Of A Kind

Three decades of work have produced a remarkable collection of unique hellebores for one nurseryman, yet they would be too expensive to put into commercial production and could disappear, finds Jacky Hobbs.

Going Too Far?

Michael Billington wonders if the directors are more interested in gimmicks than the plays’ texts.

Of Hobbits And Men

Of Hobbits And Men

The Trouble With Small Worlds

The Trouble With Small Worlds

Starting All Over Again Is Exciting

Starting All Over Again Is Exciting

The Detached Observer

Peyton Skipwith applauds this long-overdue reassessment of the work of Henry Lamb

Bring On Autumn Hunting

As masterpieces become harder to locate, London’s October fairs offer rarities aplenty

Living National Treasure

Hat-block maker

My Favourite Painting Clementine Cecil

John McEwen comments on Villa Nautilus

The Return Of The Prodigal Son By Rembrandt

John McEwen comments on The Return of the Prodigal Son

If You Go Down To The Woods Today

Past conflicts are forgotten as the New Forest’s timeless landscape beguiles

The Pests We Love To Hate

EVERY year, the RHS publishes a report on the incidence of pests in our gardens. These are listed from one to 10 according to the number of enquiries and complaints that the society receives. Slugs, snails, vine weevils, lily beetles, woolly aphids: they’re all there, year after year, upsetting our plans for carefree gardening.

The Agony And The Ecstasy

A small group of paintings demonstrates how important a regional collection can be.

A Flying Start In Florence

All manner of wildlife, from Sardinian warblers to glossy ibis and blue catfi sh, abounds on The Prof’s avifauna and angling safari in Tuscany

Brexit: The Next Instalment

The ‘B’ word has dominated all talk of farming and the countryside for two years, but its true effect is still unclear

Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Moo

From Captain and Sergeant to Bluebell and Buttercup, iPad and Snapchat, the names given to animals are a sign of our times.

Kitchen Garden Cook Apples

Salted-caramel, apple and roasted-hazelnut galette

Rebuild The Dream

A ruined mansion worthy of Midsomer Murders and a Thames-side Repton landscape make waves on the market

The Riddle Of The Sands

Much of our coastline is edged by sand dunes, running like a ribbon between land and sea. Antony Woodward explores this shifting wilderness.

Tread softly

For one season, the visitor’s understanding of Waddesdon is transformed by a carpet.

It Will Be Bliss To Go To Diss

We’ll forever associate him with Cornish clifftop walks and Aldershot sun, but Sir John Betjeman’s heart lay in another part of the country altogether. Clive Aslet looks at his enduring relationship with Norfolk.

A Palette For Prayer

Matthew Dennsion is enlightened by this exploration of the medieval use of colour as an adjunct to devotion.

Voyage of Discovery

An outstanding restoration project has rescued an important historic yacht and created a magnificent series of new interiors in the spirit of the 1930s, as John Good all reveals.

There Is A World Elsewhere

Strong revivals abound as Coriolanus and Dido complete the RSC’s Rome season and the National Theatre’s Oslo resonates with current global instability

An Ecstasy Of Light And Air

On the eve of her latest exhibition, painter Emily Patrick talks to Emma Crichton-Miller about the creative roots of her poetic oil and tempera paintings

En Garde!

Clad in high-waisted breeches, protected by an inner plastron, a mask and armed with an épée, the original duelling weapon, Agnes Stamp enters the world of fencing.

Up For The Downs

Some of our favourite paintings and best regional art galleries are associated with the south coast. David Dimbleby tells Mary Miers why.

Castellar Classicism

Sympathetic restoration has enhanced this outstanding house, which was dramatically enlarged in the 18th century by the addition of a tower. Roger White investigates

A Brave New Dawn

On a solo fishing expedition in the Highlands, Mark Hedges luxuriates in the slick style, supreme comfort and sheer power of the new Rolls-Royce Dawn.