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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