This week in Country Life we meet the flower champions behind the UK’s 600-plus national plant collections, preserving species from acers to zelkovas, we explore Broughton Hall in North Yorkshire and discovers how one family transformed its medieval seat into a fashionable home, we celebrate the extraordinary charms of the tortoise, we reveal why real men should read maps and we learn to cook with strawberries.
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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.
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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.
