Country Life August 13 2014


This week's magazine visits a beautiful garden in Norfolk, we look forward to a bumper harvest of blackberries, and find out how to get the most out of these black diamonds, PLUS we asked well-known friends of the magazine to tell us what would be their ideal cover.
Not to mention we board the Cornish River Express, and take a tour of some of the most expensive properties for sale this summer in Europe. Get your copy in all good newsagents today, or download your digital edition downloaded onto your tablet or Iphone at www.countrylife.co.uk/digitaledition.
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