Country Life 4 March 2020
Country Life 4 March 2020 celebrates the rise and rise of the labradoodle, and reveals the Top 100 designers, builders and architects in Britain.


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THE COUNTRY LIFE TOP 100: Our definitive list of the finest architects, interior designers, garden designers and craftspeople in the country.
LABRADOODLES: The hypo-allergenic dog which took over the world. Sort of.
CANNONS: The 'tantalising fragments' that remain of one of our outstanding Baroque houses.
THE BRITISH CATTLE RARER THAN GIANT PANDAS: Vicky Liddel finds out more.
LEEKS: Melanie Johnson conjures comforting meals.
FAVOURITE PAINTING: The brilliant actor Simon Callow chooses a 16th century portrait.
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GARDENS: Even the car park at The Plant Specialist is designed with horticulture in mind.
BIRDSONG: David George Haskell on the myriad strains of nature's music.
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.