Country Life August 24 2016 is our glorious Scottish number, featuring Atholl Highlanders, Arisaig Arts-and-Crafts and Orkney mandolins, plus Edward Lear. Find out more:
ARISAIG HOUSE: Mary Miers visits the West Highlands and discovers a little-known outpost of Arts-and-Crafts patronage that includes Philip Webb’s first country house
ATHOLL HIGHLANDERS: David Profumo goes behind the scenes at Blair Castle in Perthshire to discover the proud history of the Duke of Atholl’s private army, the Atholl Highlanders
ORKNEY MANDOLINS: Matthew Dennison meets the Orkney mandolin man and his instrument of many colours
ARCHITECTURE: Nisbet House, Berwickshire. Sympathetic restoration has enhanced this outstanding house and 18th-century tower, says Roger White
COOKING: Melanie Johnson puts the cherry on the cake
GARDENS: A choice selection of plants is carefully deployed among the peaty beds of a lochside cottage in Ross and Cromarty, finds Non Morris
EDWARD LEAR: Clive Aslet remembers the much-loved artist and humourist Edward Lear’s relationship with one of the great houses of Victorian England, Knowsley Hall
PROPERTY: Scotland is back in business, says Penny Churchill and Anna Tyzack finds that Edinburgh has a lot to offer
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A 500-year-old cottage in West Sussex that's as beautiful as you could ever hope to see, with a pool ringed by flowers, stables and a croquet lawnJames Fisher was in need of some balm for the soul when he came across Woodshill House.
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From Cornish Gilliflower to Rivers Early Peach: An apple a day keeps Britain’s heritage native fruit from dying out81% of traditional apple orchards have vanished from Britain, but ‘heritage’ apples retain a following, says Jack Watkins, who rounds up nine of the most interesting.
