Country Life 13 April 2022
Country Life 13 April 2022 is our Easter special issue.


The Editor’s Easter quiz: Can you identify all the native creatures and their young?.
Down the rabbit hole: Many things to many people, the tasty bunny has hidden depths, reveals John Lewis-Stempel.
A land of milk and cheddar: From cider to cheese, floods: to flour, Somerset is one of our richest counties, believe Fanny Charles and Gay Pirrie-Weir.
He was of his time: Andrew Green salutes Ralph Vaughan Williams, far more than solely a pastoral composer.
Rana Begum’s favourite painting: The artist chooses an alluring and tactile contemporary work.
Paradise in the Garden: of England: Fiona Reynolds follows in the footsteps of Chaucer and finds all is not lost of the land he knew.
Masterpiece: Jack Watkins turns his attention to the map that launched the Ordnance Survey we know today.
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Crusading spirit: High on an open escarpment: in North Yorkshire stands the Bunting War Memorial Chapel. John Goodall tells its moving and very personal story.
The secret appeal: of scurvy grass: Sea kale may not be pretty or plentiful, but it’s worth searching the shore or forcing under terra-: cotta, says Tom Parker Bowles.
The good stuff: Hetty Lintell on the sunny side.
Interiors: Cheer up your tables with the latest and brightest designs.
A colour symphony: Flamingos and flowers abound in the garden of Coton Manor, Northamptonshire, where the planting strikes just the right note, finds Tiffany Daneff.
He lived ‘not like a painter, but like a prince’: Susan Jenkins delves into the stellar career of the ‘divine Raphael’, a paragon of painting.
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by HRH The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: What else to do in SW3 if you're coming to the world's greatest flower show
There's more to Chelsea than just the Flower Show so we've rounded up some of the best places to eat, stay and shop.
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Uniquely unique? The Yorkshire grain silos transformed into a home that's a symphony in glass, steel and curves
Amid the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire, on the edge of the Castle Howard Estate, The Silos is a property for which the word 'house' simply doesn't cut it. And that's not the only way in which it's made us throw out the dictionary.