Just as the winter is spent preparing for garden action, so the summer is spent trying to keep up with it. This is the golden age for weeds: balmy evenings spent quietly hoeing will reward your endeavour. Root out populations of weeds in hedge bottoms and shady corners before they can run to seed, otherwise you will face a much stiffer challenge in the coming years. It pays to know your enemy, so a gradual process of getting to know the various weeds and their lifecycles, habits and habitats will be rewarded by an understanding of how to control them, for now at least.
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A country house that was the set for one of the best-loved sitcoms of the 1980s is for sale, with 40,000sq ft of space, 39 bedrooms and almost endless potentialLynford Hall, a vast neo-Jacobean house that's been everything from a country hotel to an agricultural college, has come to the market. Toby Keel tells its story.
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This bear welcomes you to the Country Life Quiz of the Day, November 4, 2025Put your mind to the test.
