All content Archive | June 2022

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June 30th
- Ideas for making the most of summer in the garden
June 29th
- John Lewis-Stempel: Here’s looking at ewe, kid
- A pretty coastal home in West Sussex with spectacular views over Chichester Harbour — located just metres from the shoreline
- Country Life 29 June 2022
June 28th
- The Queen's former racehorse stables are up for sale, along with a country house and 63 acres of Berkshire
- 'Russia must be isolated. Utterly walled off,' said the Russian. 'When Putin falls, the new regime will be the same as the old'
June 27th
- Eight of the best sundials for your garden
- A superb Cornish Manor House that has never been seen on the open market — until now
- My Favourite Painting: Paul Chesney
June 26th
- Six magnificent country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Comfrey: What you need to know about the plant that 'looks like borage a couple of gins into a long weekend'
- How to help a dog who's scared of going places in the car, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- Mapperton House: A Dorset masterpiece, and still the nation's finest manor house?
June 25th
- 'One of the best waterside homes in England' on the open market for the first time in 145 years
- Curious Questions: When did the first passenger jet take off?
- The Shropshire Union Canal: Thomas Telford's engineering marvel and enduring legacy
- The gardens at Kestle Barton: A landscape of creeks and fields married to an award-winning gallery
June 24th
- The transformative power of good interior design, on show to the world in Chelsea
- In Focus: The £20 million Michelangelo sketch that's one of just 10 in private hands
June 23rd
- Opinion: 'The Strategic Food Policy has been castrated by the government — and our children will pay the price'
- Tom Parker Bowles: Why peas fresh from the pod are 'absolute quintessence of nubile vitality'
- A sprawling rural estate that is up for sale for the first time in more than 100 years — with over 1,700 acres on offer and a £50 million price tag
June 22nd
- A sunny, Grade II listed family home in Hertfordshire with peaceful gardens that border the River Cam
- A grand Victorian home in North Devon's Fuschia Valley — complete with historic interiors and glorious sea views
- Country Life 22 June 2022
June 21st
- The Swan Hotel: a luxury Lake District bolthole with a brand new spa to boot
- A sublime 70-acre estate in a 'magical hidden valley' in the Dartmoor National Park
- 'The monarchy is not a cold, rational, legal structure, but a living, vibrant, human creation with human weaknesses and human strengths'
June 20th
- The perfect wedding jewellery gifts for brides and beyond
- An award-winning oast barn conversion that overlooks the Swale Estuary in Kent
- My Favourite Painting: Teresa Dent
June 19th
- Seven absolutely gorgeous country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: The best plants to grow in a boggy garden
- Gustavus III: The designs of the king who dreamed he was an architect
June 18th
- A 'delightfully quirky' and eco-friendly 18th century farmhouse in the heart of Somerset with its own wild-swimming lake
- Curious Questions: Did a mining disaster lead to the invention of Father’s Day?
- Mind your step: The world's biggest slugs are alive, well and thriving in England
- Thomas Hardy's Wessex vs the real-life Dorset: Which bits are real, which dreams, and which are exact to the last stream and stile
June 17th
- A simply magical private island in Scotland for sale, complete with an 18th century tower, at the price of a new-build four-bed in Guildford
- John Sims-Hilditch: ‘A piece of furniture can’t be beautiful unless it’s well built’
- A sensational country home built by Edwin Lutyens with gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll — now for sale for the first time in 50 years
- A stunning Medieval Hall House that is the perfect blend of historic and modern — just 30 miles from London
- Henry Moore: The sculptor who achieved the impossible
June 16th
- The newborn peregrine falcons of Salisbury Cathedral
- Best Father's Day treats, from a truly superb fry-up to Berry Bros' exotic foray into rum
June 15th
- Country Life 15 June 2022
June 14th
- Alfred Newall: 'Good furniture, made to last a lifetime, only gets better with age'
- Join the Country Life wine tasting — and sumptuous lunch — at Gusbourne
- A glorious house for sale in Hampshire that seems to fulfil every bucolic dream
- 'Ever since Christ stilled the waters of Galilee, fishing and mortality have been entwined'
June 13th
- A small historic country estate in the Dartmoor National Park that's up for sale for the first time in just under 30 years
- My Favourite Painting: Xanthe Arvanitakis
June 12th
- A country estate complete with dairy farm, and room for 300 cows, 12,000 litres of milk... and 650,000 gallons of slurry
- The best flowers named after monarchs, from the Queen's latest rose to the regal daisies that were almost named after Kaiser Wilhelm
- How to stop a dog getting jealous when you're playing with someone else's pet, by expert trainer Ben Randall
June 11th
- An impeccably restored Elizabethan manor house with touches of everything from the 15th to the 21st centuries
- Curious Questions: Who do we say that cats have nine lives?
- The Halfway Bridge Inn review: A dog-friendly South Downs oasis
- Folly Farm gardens, Berkshire: A masterclass in maintaining an historic garden
June 10th
- Right to buy 'fundamentally altered the way in which we looked at our home as a route to financial prosperity'
- A beautiful Grade II listed farmhouse near Exeter that's set within 16 acres of dreamy Devon countryside
- In Focus: The lions of Trafalgar Square by Sir Edwin Landseer
June 9th
- Trees can be a win-win for farming and the environment
- A 430-acre historic country estate near the White Cliffs of Dover — but you'll need rather deep pockets...
- How to make strawberry and frangipane galette
June 8th
- A beautifully remote thatched cottage in Devon with just under 13 acres of magical gardens
- 'Were it not for Country Life, Sealyhams would be extinct by now’
- Country Life 8 June 2022
June 7th
- An historic fort for sale with secret underground tunnels, Napoleonic pathways and a shower from the QE2
- Coquillade Provence Resort & Spa review: The picturesque French village that became a luxury hotel
- 'Hang on — was I just charged 64 quid for some salad, six chicken strips and a quiche the size of a doorknob?'
June 6th
- A picture-perfect Jersey farmhouse kitchen that does everything to balance new and old
- The Queen's Platinum Jubilee: Seven of the defining images from four days of celebration
- My favourite painting: Ronnie Archer-Morgan
June 5th
- Seven superb homes for sale from £675,000 to £1.5 million, as seen in Country Life
- Charles Quest-Ritson: The dismal mistake made by the RHS's judges with the 'best in show' award at Chelsea
- How do I stop my dog barking at people coming up to my house? Expert advice from top trainer Ben Randall
- Blenheim Palace: The story of the English answer to Versailles
June 4th
- A 600-acre sporting and residential estate in the heart of the Cranborne Chase AONB that will set you back over £18 million
- Curious Questions: What is it like to sing at a royal coronation in Westminster Abbey?
- Keythorpe Hall: A beautiful country house and walled garden to call your own (for the weekend, at least)
June 3rd
- A beautiful Georgian farmhouse near the Malvern Hills that is on the market for the first time in over 100 years
- A handsome Regency house for sale on a pretty crescent in Royal Leamington Spa
June 2nd
- One of Guernsey's 'most historic and significant estates' is now on the market ... for £25 million
- The strangest things named after Queen Elizabeth II, from flower markets to a Filipino teenage celebrity
- A magnificent house for sale in one of Kingston's most sought-after private estates
June 1st
- The Queen's official Platinum Jubilee portrait unveiled, taken by Ranald Mackechnie at Windsor Castle
- 20 facts about the Queen you probably didn't know
- The Country Life guide to running the ultimate Platinum Jubilee street party
- The mysterious sea of bluebells that appeared on Exmoor
- How to eat seasonally in June, by Tom Parker Bowles
- Seven of the very best houses for sale in Norfolk, from a picturesque cottage to a breathtaking beach house
- Country Life 1 June 2022