Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Poppy Delingpole • Poppy is an account executive at ASA, a luxury communications firm. She is the daughter of James and Tiffany Delingpole of Fawsley, Northamptonshire.

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Country Life

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Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

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Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Philippa Gregory

Country-house treasures

William Robinson and the wild garden

Feat of clay • Once you have noticed the texture on a hand-thrown flowerpot, it’s impossible to use factory made again, says Tiffany Daneff, after a visit to Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire

Throw another log on the fire • Woodburning stoves are joining firepits in the garden as the jolliest way to keep the winter cold at bay, says Amelia Thorpe

Passing on the golden torch • David Carver is typical of the new generation of nursery owners, writes John Hoyland, determined to save historic collections and produce new hybrids

Listening in

Through the garden gates • Which gardens are COUNTRY LIFE contributors most looking forward to visiting this year?

‘Plucked down in one day’ • A medieval Augustinian priory links together the history of a great public school with the Anglo-Saxon era and the Kings of Mercia, as David Robinson explains

For I’ll be a wild drover • Driving cattle on foot across Scotland, echoing the practices of our forefathers and gaining intimate insight into the animals’ habits, Patrick Laurie discovers that sometimes it really is about the journey as much as the destination

One owl to rule them all • Whether for its textbook appearance, regional ubiquity or haunting and mellifluous call, it’s no wonder the inimitable tawny may be Britain’s best-loved owl

Where the Wildings are • Renowned for illustrating the ‘Famous Five’ series, the mercurial, motorcar-obsessed Eileen Soper lived a bucolic and eccentric life, discovers Ian Morton

Dive in • The best way to cure the January blues is to embrace them, suggests Amie Elizabeth White

Rooted in Nature • From ice cream to underwear and explosives, plants are remarkably integral to much of the manmade world, as a new book reveals. Harry Pearson investigates

The colourful kitchen • Cookers, lighting and accessories in cheerful shades, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Property news

Where winter blooms • Sensational gardens don’t go to ground over the winter months and the new owners of any one of these charming properties will buy into a home where the external landscape may even take top billing

Kitchen garden cook Onions

Ode to the swede • The underrated root vegetable is the real hero of the Burns Night meal, says Douglas Chalmers

Green around the gills • A sardine-festooned majolica box in a glaring clash of toxic colours enthrals Bonhams Knightsbridge managing director Matthew Haley, as he reveals to Carla Passino

A study in sculpture • A new catalogue in four volumes explores the extraordinary riches of the sculpture in the Royal Collection. Its author, Sir Jonathan Marsden, selects 10 favourite works that reflect the diversity of...