This week in Country Life we meet the flower champions behind the UK’s 600-plus national plant collections, preserving species from acers to zelkovas, we explore Broughton Hall in North Yorkshire and discovers how one family transformed its medieval seat into a fashionable home, we celebrate the extraordinary charms of the tortoise, we reveal why real men should read maps and we learn to cook with strawberries.
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