If you want to buy any of the plants mentioned below for your own garden, visit www.countrylife.co.uk/nursery and type or copy and paste the name into the search. Plants are delivered in sturdy boxes in a matter of days from one of the finest nurseries in the country.
It's been a wonderful year for vegetables in the garden but you need to make sure you're keeping up with their development! The grower of courgettes will have to cut them daily, searching among the rasping foliage, to prevent the fruits turning, apparently overnight, into monster marrows, which make for an occasional novelty, but are not always a welcome gift. French and runner beans also need to be rigorously looked over each evening, if possible.
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The garden created by a forgotten genius of the 1920s, rescued from 'a sorry state of neglect to a level of quality it has not known for over 50 years'George Dillistone’s original Arts-and-Crafts design at Knowle House, East Sussex, has been lovingly restored and updated with contemporary planting. George Plumptre tells more; photography by Clive Nichols.
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21 of the greatest craftspeople working in Britain today, as chosen by the nation's best designers and architectsWe've persuaded some of the most celebrated names from our Country Life Top 100 to name the craftspeople they have in their own personal little black books.
