Country Life January 17 2018 is our wonderful winter gardens number featuring a Cotswold treasure and colourful cannas plus canine heroes and the life of a High Sheriff.
GARDENING PROBLEMS SOLVED: Country Life’s experts, such as Alan Titchmarsh and Charles Quest-Ritson, reveal how they solved the gardening problems that have been vexing them
CANINE HEROES: From rescuing children to riding trains, Richard Sugg recounts the tales of devoted and daring dogs from history
MUSIC: Britain has become a magnet for young, talented conductors, says Pippa Cuckson
LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: The political cartoonist
FAVOURITE PAINTING: The Today editor, Sarah Sands, opts for a restful Georgia O’Keeffe work
GARDENS: An other-worldliness pervades the sensitively gardened grounds of a Cotswold manor house, finds Jacky Hobbs
Subscribe to Country Life
CANNAS: With seeds devastating enough to be ammunition, the once- reviled showy Canna has a few tricks up its sleeve, says Mark Griffiths
WILDLIFE: Our smallest carnivore requires at least five meals a day to survive, observes David Profumo
ARCHITECTURE: A surviving cycle of 14th-century paintings in a tower on a dairy farm in Cambridgeshire still has the power to intrigue, amuse and inform, says Edward Impey
A DAY IN THE LIFE: Clive Aslet dodges prison on a day with the High Sheriff of Kent
INTERIORS: A bedroom by South African designer Hubert Zandberg and Anouska Hempel’s latest project
REEL LIFE: David Profumo discovers that there is some good news for Scottish salmon stocks
COOKING: More than marmalade: Melanie Johnson finds delicious things to do with oranges
If you loved this issue, why not subscribe to Country Life and get your copy delivered to your door every week?
You can also subscribe to the digital edition on your tablet and download your copy every Wednesday.
Back issues of Country Life magazine can be ordered online here.
-
Chelsea Flower Show 2025: What else to do in SW3 if you're coming to the world's greatest flower showThere's more to Chelsea than just the Flower Show so we've rounded up some of the best places to eat, stay and shop.
-
Uniquely unique? The Yorkshire grain silos transformed into a home that's a symphony in glass, steel and curvesAmid 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.
