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 Antonia Curtis • Antonia is a management consultant, specialising in AI and business transformation, and is the daughter of Simon and Sara-Jane Curtis of Oxfordshire. She is engaged to Digby Beatson-Hird, whom she will marry at St Edburg’s Church, Bicester, Oxfordshire, with a reception at Bicester Motion, where she was photographed, in September.

Poetic justice

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Putting the planning cart before the horse

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Sir James MacMillan

The legacy Gertrude Jekyll and herbaceous planting

Building on a dream • When Nicola Taylor took on her plantsman father’s flower-filled woodland, she knew more about horses than trees, but, as Tiffany Daneff discovers, that hasn’t stopped her from making a great success of the garden

It starts with a seed • Nothing gives as much pleasure in the garden as a plant that you have sown yourself. John Hoyland shows how

The ground crew • To get up at first light and work in all weathers are the basic requirements of a head gardener, without whose extensive knowledge none of our great gardens would survive. Christopher Stocks meets the unsung heroes and heroines of horticulture

Shocking pinks • For a choice selection of pinks, Tilly Ware recommends the Cornish nursery Calamazag

Plants that make me smile

The architect for me • In the first of two articles, Clive Aslet explores the relationship between Sir Edwin Lutyens and perhaps his most important private client, the politician and financier Reginald McKenna

Take it witha pinch of salt • Filling, rewarding and nutritious, vegetables and plants grown in saline environments–whether by accident or design–have plenty of potential, discovers Deborah Nicholls-Lee

A night on the tiles • From bloody beginnings of drunken mayhem in public houses, it is somewhat surprising that the game of dominoes reached pearl-encrusted heights in our royal palaces, finds Harry Pearson

United colours of Rolls-Royce • The Ghost is the classic Rolls-Royce, but where does that leave it in a world dominated by electric vehicles and SUVs? Toby Keel gets behind the wheel of a Series II to find out

A uniform approach • You’re approaching retirement and no longer have to dress in your work wardrobe each day–so what do you wear? A uniform of your own design, says Dylan Jones

Full to the brim • Flowers are the traditional present on Mothering Sunday, but what about a vase to hold them, too? Hetty Lintell encourages a treat worthy of refilling

The designer’s room • Orlando Atty has updated a historic Wiltshire home decorated by Robert Kime 40 years ago

Take a seat • What makes a chair supremely comfortable? The rake, the suspension system, the frame or the fillings, asks Arabella Youens

Where to find your own Howards End • Although Edwardian domestic architecture is often associated with London’s garden suburbs, here are four country houses of the era, two of which are Thameside

Havens and hideaways • Some houses offer that little bit extra–a garden building to enhance your quality of...