Country Life January 14 2015
Country Life January 14 2015 visits the garden at Ousden House in Suffolk and reveals the best way to move a treasured art collection.


This week in Country Life we admire wonderful winter gardens and reveal how landscape levels can reinforce a look or garden mood, we remember how Country Life fought to save Britain’s agriculture during and after the First World War, we feel the force of the howling, screaming wind and we get the pressure cooker out in the kitchen.
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Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.
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