By
Agnes Stamp
published
This week in Country Life we celebrate spring gardens and admire the enchanting blooms of magnolias, we identify a revival in grand conservatories, we investigate the mischievous magpie, we visit Chinthurst Hill in Surrey and we learn to cook with spinach.
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Alan Titchmarsh: You wouldn't think it, but Surrey is the most wooded of all England's counties — and its Scots pines are as beautiful as any of its treesAlan Titchmarsh is selling his house
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A classic oast house on the outside, a wild architectural fantasy inside, and just down the road from one of Kent's best grammar schoolsAnnabel Dixon steps inside Joldwyns, a house where even seasoned property professionals admit to being 'blown away by the incredible juxtaposition and the importance of the architectural feats'.
