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Why fuchsia snobs should think again
Banished for being blowsy and vulgar, the much-maligned fuchsia is at last being welcomed back into society

In A World Of Pure Imagination
More than a century after they were last exhibited, Gustave Moreau’s The Fables remain timeless and glittering visions of a jewelled neverland, finds Matthew Dennison

In the frame
Everything you need for beautiful windows, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Never say never
What resources are needed to save a country house on the brink? Lucy Denton investigates

The Athenian revolution
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the completion of St Pancras Church, Harry Mount considers the early-19th-century enthusiasm for Greek architecture and its impact on buildings across the British Isles.

An open-and-shut case
When it comes to sash windows, are you a purist or a pragmatist? Eleanor Doughty examines the argument for both options

Come to the point
For lovers of traditional sport and skilled dog-work, the spectacle of pursuing grouse over pointers and setters is hypnotic and exhilarating, says Jonathan Young

Feeling hot, hot, hot
Drawn into the chilli’s fiery embrace at a young age–when sneaking a sip of his father’s Tabasco-laden Bloody Mary–Tom Parker Bowles is addicted to the fruit with a sting in its tail

Grace and space
Three Kent properties show off the best that the Garden of England has to offer

Taking the waters
For Georgian landowners, a mineral-laced spring could mean a profitable resort, even if the water was rusty orange–and our spa towns remain a tonic today, says Clive Aslet

Time to try defying gravity
Thomas the Tank Engine, van Gogh’s head, a pair of Levi’s and a Tyrannosaurus Rex: Cameron Balloons has made them all fly in the form of hot-air balloons, finds Julie Harding

A room for all seasons
Interior designer Sarah Vanrenen has created an outdoor room that’s perfect for summer (and winter) entertaining, finds Amelia Thorpe

Get ready for their grand entrance
As useful, tough and easy to grow as they are dramatic, colchicums offer spring-like freshness, but in autumn, reveals Charles Quest-Ritson

Come hell or high water
Often hidden beneath slippery fronds of seaweed, rock pools offer a glimmering window into the cut-throat existence of the creatures that live in these havens on our shores, says Adam Nicolson

The mouse that roared
She kept an eclectic menagerie of pets and wild animals and signed everything, from paintings to cheques, with a tiny mouse. Claire Jackson revisits the all-too-short life of wildlife artist Mouse Macpherson

Picturing paradise
Balletic grace, disciplined spirituality, eloquent economy, unrestrained fantasy and pictorial intensity: five artists took very different approaches to illustrating Dante’s vision of Heaven, says Martin Kemp

Magical landscapes
There’s shooting, stalking, fishing, farming and houses aplenty within the golden acres of two of this country’s finest agricultural estates

WALKING WITH MASTERPIECES
Art is breaking free from the traditional gallery and its emergence on our streets and in our parks is changing the way we live, says Clive Aslet

This green and pleasant village
This slice of south London is an underrated arcadia, but for how long, asks Carla Passino?

Updating a legacy
Turvey House, Bedfordshire The home of Charlie and Grace Hanbury Never previously described in COUNTRY LIFE, this fine neo-Classical house has recently been adapted and refurbished by the seventh generation of the family that built it. Jeremy Musson reports

‘Mother Dear... remember me in your prayer'
A mammoth new work recounting the First World War, week by week, isn’t merely a chronicle of pain and suffering, says co-author Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe–it is a rich tapestry of courage, camaraderie and love

The problem with house building...
Housing development is conditioned by concerns that have nothing to do with creating attractive or sustainable places to live. Clive Aslet explains this scandalous situation and suggests what we might be able to do about it

‘It's very close to the human voice'
The four great cello concertos will feature in the same Proms season for the first time in history. Pippa Cuckson discovers why this mellow instrument evokes such emotion

What a relief
Generations have sworn by dock leaves to take the sting out of a brush with nettles, even if modern medicine disagrees

It's all going south
Our fishing correspondent ventures to England for a series of forays on venerable chalkstreams, where he bags a few brown trout and a lot of nostalgia

On the wings of love
Once oblivious to butterflies, Robin Page became so entranced by their delicate beauty that he embarked on a year-long safari to tick every British species–as well as some foreign visitors–off his list

Picture perfect
The market’s blooming in the South of England with three historic manor houses

From out of the shadows
Barbara Hepworth fought hard for recognition in her lifetime, and privacy after her death. Now, with an exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the museum in her name, it’s time to reassess her life and work

I may be some time
The author on early sadness and late-blooming fiction-writing success

Adventures in wonderland
From the new Italianate walled garden, paths and bridges lead on through the endlessly exciting garden of Colebrook House, Blockley, Gloucestershire