The serious sweet-pea grower will have sown seeds five to a pot last autumn, pinched out the resulting seedlings and kept them in a spartan cold frame regime ever since. Now is the time to put them in their final quarters. The ground will be well dug and mucked in advance, with each station marked by a tall cane, the whole structure suitably lashed together. Knock out the seedlings, plant one seedling per station, label and proceed. Secure the seedling to the cane.
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Dorfold Hall: The 'most neat and beautiful house of brick' that owes its existence to a desperate effort to secure successionDorfold Hall in Cheshire is an outstanding Jacobean house, but was an unexpected product of dynastic disappointment. John Goodall examines the remarkable circumstances of its construction; photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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The London house where Rolls-Royce's co-founder Charles Rolls tinkered with his very first car is for sale at £17 millionCharles Rolls, the engineer and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, got his hands dirty when using the stables of this fine London home as a makeshift garage. Annabel Dixon reports.
