Features Archive | May 2020

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May 31st
- The secrets of the wisteria pergolas in the Private Gardens at Petworth House
- How to re-wild your garden, from ponds and trees to attracting butterflies and hedgehogs
- The tale of the couple who gave Chequers to the nation and caught the mood of war-ravaged Britain
May 30th
- The magnificent gardens at Benington Lordship, a blueprint for spectacular gardening without blowing the budget
May 29th
- Beautiful, bold blue and white accessories for your home
- An archetypal country manor house for sale in 'one of North Devon's few remaining unspoilt coastal locations'
- In Focus: Francis Wheatley, the Londoner who immortalised everyday Georgian life across the strata of society
May 28th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Dressing for dinner, lockdown-style
- Breathtaking views and a colonnaded balcony come together in a quirky and striking Georgian country house in Somerset
- How to make rack of lamb with harissa, asparagus and garlic-and-almond sourdough crumbs
May 27th
- Huge swathes of Britain will be replanted with trees. But where will they be? Who will do it? Who pays? And, critically, which trees should we be planting?
- A 'quintessential English cottage' in Devon with endless charm, spectacular outdoor space, and walking distance from the beach
- Country Life 27 May 2020
May 26th
- Stirling Castle: Renaissance of a Royal Palace
- A picture-perfect farmhouse with an exquisite parterre garden has come to the market
- Jason Goodwin: 'I found myself shaking my fist at an aeroplane, as outraged by the interruption as any uncontacted tribesman in the rainforest'
May 25th
- Where I work: Annie Tempest, Tottering-by-Gently cartoonist
- The exceptional houses being built in idyllic countryside spots, thanks to the foresight of Paragraph 79
- My Favourite Painting: Jenni Murray
May 24th
- Mary Keen: The secrets of windowsill gardening
- Inside the incredible Private Gardens at Petworth House, a space with 'a sense of privacy and intimacy' at one of Britain's great houses
- Chequers: The salvation and restoration of a house which became the Prime Minister's official country retreat
May 23rd
- Curious Questions: When did we first start playing cards?
- The Wye Valley AONB: 'If you have never navigated the Wye, you have seen nothing'
May 22nd
- A Tuscan kitchen reborn: 'When we first took it on a tree was growing through the kitchen and the basement was full of snakes'
- A church converted into flats where Gothic windows and stained glass meet LED lighting and bespoke fittings
- In Focus: The village and cottage featured in Constable's The Hay Wain, the the ultimate image of English country life
May 21st
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Glorious garden furniture, from perfect parasols to a love seat for a ménage a trois
- Knock, knock: What's the best colour front door for selling a house?
- How to make perfect asparagus risotto, with the vegetable that's 'one of the true joys of English spring and summer'
May 20th
- The 18th century canal tunnel that was a miracle of engineering, now reclaimed by Nature
- A irresistibly romantic thatched roundhouse with glorious gardens in an idyllic Dorset village
- Country Life 20 May 2020
May 19th
- The medieval engineering strokes of genius that led to the building of Old London Bridge
- A 17th century home full of history, complete with medieval tower and outdoor pool
- Rosie and Jim: 'Please, just put the Le Creuset down Doris'
May 18th
- Where I work: George Saumarez-Smith, architect
- Three beautiful farms for sale, as buyers look for a 'defensive, tangible asset' in a time of uncertainty
- My Favourite Painting: George Plumptre
May 17th
- Four beautiful country houses for sale, including one built in the 11th century and another in the 21st, as seen in Country Life
- How to grow peas: What to plant, when to plant it, and how quickly you'll be dishing it up
- The common garden plants that are deadly to dogs and cats – and what to do if they eat one
May 16th
- Five magnificent country houses on semi-detached suburbia budgets
- Curious Questions: How does soap work?
- Everything you need to know about growing camassias
- The grand plan to re-seed the Cotswolds with endless carpets of wildflowers
- The best and worst of London's bridges, from the sheer elegance of Albert Bridge to the utilitarian solidity of Wandsworth
May 15th
- The bold wallpaper that's not for the faint-hearted, full of glorious colours and larger-than-life motifs
- A handsome home in Kent with a wealth of character, comfort and an easy commute
- In Focus: Piranesi, the architect, artist and engraver whose fantasy buildings won him 300 years of fame
May 14th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The finest lounging-around-the house clothes money can buy
- A stunning modern conversion of a gorgeous old Hertfordshire barn, with gardens by a Chelsea gold medallist
- How to make a triple-layer Victorian cake with peaches, cream and maple syrup
May 13th
- Lalage Beaumont: 'Clothes should be like old friends — you enjoy wearing them, rather than being worn once and put in the back of the cupboard'
- Country Life 13 May 2020
May 12th
- Top 10 earrings to bring a little dressing-for-dinner glamour to your life right now
- How Chequers has changed — and stayed the same — in a century, as pictured in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: 'I suppose I should be going stir-crazy in self-isolation. The reality has been rather different'
- Five of the finest Belgravia homes for sale today, from £5m to £20m
- Rosie and Jim: 'You’re stuck/safe in one of the UK’s most beautiful swathes of countryside, so give thanks and get outside'
May 11th
- Where I work: Michael Bryden, Rolls-Royce bespoke designer
- A fine country house near Canterbury with history, charm and a 'donkey wheel house' that's now a nuttily eccentric gazebo
- My Favourite Painting: Frances Morris
May 10th
- Five grand homes on the market in London's smartest postcodes, as seen in Country Life
- How Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty, the 'hymn to a horse' whose influence on animals is still felt today
- Columbine Hall: A medieval, moated manor house that's been transformed into a perfect country home
May 9th
- A home in Britain's oldest chartered town with gorgeous library, indoor pool and romantic views over St Michael's Mount
- Curious Questions: Why don't spiders get caught in their own webs?
- Galloway: 'There are no wobbling lips or tears of pride around these parts; we’ll leave that sort of carry-on to the Highlanders'
- The head of the CPRE: 'Just looking at open fields and woodland and hills makes you feel great... The countryside has a soul, and people can feel that'
May 8th
- The ingenious techniques that can let you have brand-new kitchen which looks like it's been cherished for decades
- The 'only habitable hobbit hole in the world' is up for sale — and it comes with a country house and £150k-a-year lifestyle business
May 7th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Cheese by the wheel-load, ducklings by post and sticky ginger pudding
- The real story of Belgravia: Angry mobs, the 'Bloody Bridge', and London's most beautiful garden squares
- Six authentic wartime recipes to celebrate VE Day, from Lord Woolton's pie to 'Surprise Potato Balls'
May 6th
- Peat takes millennia to generate, and bogs store 10 times more carbon than forests — using it in gardening is madness
- Five irresistible properties for sale in East Anglia, with space, stables and stories to tell
- Country Life 6 May 2020
May 5th
- How Oxford University's buildings evolved, and how its 'chiefest wonder' came into being
- A gorgeously secluded home set on its own private beach that's a perfect enclave, away from the world
- Rosie and Jim: On binge-watching Normal People, and discovering that 'running is pain'
May 4th
- A calming bedroom with light and height — and a bathtub with a view
- A beautiful country house for sale in the 'English Atlantis', with woodland, walled garden and sweeping sea views
- My Favourite Painting: The Countess of Cranbrook
May 3rd
- Seven of the best waterside houses for sale in Britain today
- Arthur Parkinson: The 'intensely creative' gardener with 'spectacular flamboyance' rising to the top of the gardening world
- 10 things you didn’t know about French bulldogs – including how they’re actually British
May 2nd
- Curious Questions: Who first used corks in wine — and how did they get them out again before the invention of the corkscrew?
- The gardens at the Old Rectory in Litton Cheney, where formal and informal come together in harmony
- The photographer walking 7,000 miles around the coast of Britain: 'After 450 days of walking I've not been bored once'
May 1st
- A drink for all seasons: Jaffa Cake Gin (yes, really) and what might be the world's first 'crunchy' wine
- Perfectly imperfect: Why the unfussy charm of block-printed textiles is winning us over
- Seven golden rules for selling a country house
- In Focus: A sculptor creating 21st century art from the detritus of 20th century life