All content Archive | March 2024

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March 31st
- Artichoke
- Nels Crosthwaite Eyre
- Eight magnificent country homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Help for our four-legged heroes: the charity that looks after retired service animals
- Newnham Paddox: The ancient country seat that's also brand new
- The expert guide to growing violets, by the fifth-generation nursery owner who's devoted a lifetime to them
March 30th
- What is Whitby jet? The once-prized northern native gemstone that is darker than the night
- Riding to the rescue – how the gardens at Dowdeswell Court have been brought to life
March 29th
- A five-bedroom home in Somerset ham stone with poetic connections
- Curious Questions: Why does Easter move dates every year?
- The very nature of Middle Earth — how Tolkien's passion for the countryside inspired the Lord of the Rings
March 28th
- Wentworth: 100 years and still going strong as Surrey's most famous millionaire's playground
- John Lewis-Stempel: Never look after other people's animals
- Counting butterflies to calm the anxious mind
- A former lifeboat station in an incredible spot, with four bedrooms, six acres and red squirrels dancing on the decking
- Curious Questions: Why do we eat hot cross buns at Easter?
March 27th
- From smashed glass to smashing teas: The restoration of a 300-year-old glass-roofed teahouse full of historic camellias
- A Nordic-style home with solar panels that sits on the edge of one of Somerset's best villages
March 26th
- A dairy farmer's view of Jaipur, the city where traffic stops for sacred cows
- The RHS: 220 years of horticultural genius
- Country Life 27 March 2024
- Where three became one — an intriguing conversion that created an oasis in Land's End
- 'Milk, butter, eggs and honey provide a healthy variety with which industrially processed, plant-based food can’t compete'
March 25th
- Who was the original Jack Russell who gave his name to one of Britain's favourite dog breeds?
- The architect whose grand designs bring inspiration and beauty to the British countryside
- Soaking it up: Five brilliant bathubs
- Period charm, vast gardens and huge games room as one of the grandest houses in Cambridge comes up for sale
- Paper houses: The Somerset artists turning books into model country homes
March 24th
- 22 homes for sale, from a £350k converted chapel to an £11.4m masterpiece, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: The boy who left school early with one O-level 60 years ago... and found the perfect career
- How to stop your dog marking his territory and cocking his leg in other people's houses
- The tale of Knebworth: How does your garden village grow?
March 23rd
- A 16th century hall set in its own private valley in Cornwall that teems with local wildlife
- Curious Questions: The kiwi fruit is from China, and is China's national fruit — so how did it get its New Zealand-inspired name?
- The Carlyle hotel review: The New York hotel that's covered in stardust
- Leading museums and attractions slowly returning to pre-Pandemic levels, with London leading the way
March 22nd
- The property hotspots where house sales have more than doubled since this time last year
- 10 truly special garden planters and pots from £329 to £15,000
- The inaugural topiary awards are open now
- A ancient clifftop lodge that's spectacular within, just down the coast from the castle of King Arthur
- Some of the silliest animals on the planet, captured by you
March 21st
- A bona fide country house in London, complete with a coach house, gardens, and an Aga in the kitchen
- A walk across the Cheshire Plain, the 200-million-year-old landscape where yesterday’s old industrial sites are today’s nature reserves
- The art dealer who bet £500,000 on a hunch, and ended up with a long-lost Old Master worth millions
- A converted reservoir in Devon that might be the UK's most interesting holiday home
- Tom Parker Bowles on the classic English food that's 'never dull, comforting, and impossible to resist'
March 20th
- Elmley Nature Reserve – an island of nature in Kent that vibrates with birdsong
- The RNLI's 200-year journey from being set up in a pub to saving tens of thousands of lives
- How much? A baby born today may have to pay more than £500,000 for its first home
- The art of the bath
- ADAM Architecture
March 19th
- Playing the name game: Why what you call a house really matters
- How Country Life launched the career of Alistair Mackenzie, the architect who created Augusta National's iconic golf course
- John Le Carré's jukebox, furniture and effects head to auction
- Country Life 20 March 2024
- The Legacy: Miriam Rothschild, the pioneer of organic and wildflower gardening
- An idyllic Norfolk property that comes with a business which brings in over £200,000 a year
- Jonathan Self: The peasants are anything but revolting
March 18th
- A 40ft-high former water tower in Hampshire that could be the next great Grand Design for £45,000
- A West Sussex farmhouse with its own vineyard where you could make 40,000 bottles a year
- Six of the best sculpture parks to visit around Britain
- My favourite painting: Andrew Graham-Dixon
March 17th
- Five breathtaking country houses for sale, from a Georgian wonder to the oldest continually inhabited house in England
- Chicory and endive: The bittersweet plants as versatile as they are punchy
- St Patrick’s Chapel ruins, Heysham: The mythical Lancashire ruins with a heavenly view
- Boston Manor House: Renewal and recovery
March 16th
- A Queen Anne house set in exquisite Suffolk countryside where even the stables are thatched and charming
- Curious Questions: Why was a lifeboat hauled 13 miles overland in the midst of one of the worst storms of the 19th century?
- The Fall foliage of New England and Canada, as witnessed from the deck of a cruise ship
- Stancombe Park: The garden full of hidden tunnels that inspired Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead
March 15th
- The Oxford & London Building Co Ltd
- An Elizabethan manor house where gnarled, ancient beams meet 21st century walls of glass
- The art and life of Pattie Boyd, the woman in the centre of the love triangle between Eric Clapton and a Beatle, has come up for auction
March 14th
- A 'dramatically delicious' leek, saffron and seafood pie
March 13th
- The woodlark: the British songbird that is the ultimate masked singer
- An eight-bedroom Queen Anne home in Hertfordshire with perfect gardens and a party barn
- The buzz is back, says British Beekeepers Association, which celebrates its 150th anniversary
- Home-making made simple with an oak frame
March 12th
- What to expect when you're expecting (to move to the countryside)
- Country Life 13 March 2024
- A Grade II-listed house in the Surrey Hills that was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and comes with its own secret tunnel
- What (not) to wear at the Cheltenham Festival
- 'From the first page until the last, I was in another country, another world... It was like falling in love'
March 11th
- Estelle Manor review: The Oxfordshire hotel and private member's club that will appeal to honeymooners and families alike
- What I grow in my garden, by Country Life's gardens editor Tiffany Daneff
- How planting trees can fight flooding and improve your soil
- A penthouse in a former vinegar factory in Vauxhall returns to the market for the first time since it was converted
- The Isle of Skye and the world’s last manual turntable ferry
- My favourite painting: Sir Alistair Spalding
March 10th
- The transformation of a nautical-themed character home in one of the most sought-after spots in Cornwall
- 18 country homes for sale, from £350k to £19 million, as seen in Country Life
- The house plant I've kept alive for 50 years
- How to give your dog his confidence back when he's been upset or disturbed by another dog, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- A former National Trust stately home for sale, within a mile of two of Cornwall's most beautiful beaches
- 'Halfway between a restoration and an environmental research project' — A transformed Georgian country house
March 9th
- Curious Questions: Why don't we all agree on how to pronounce 'lieutenant'?
- Deplar Farm hotel review: A turf-roofed farmhouse in Iceland that offer some of the world's best adventures
- The changing face of Britain's favourite dogs, decade by decade
March 8th
- Hotel La Palma review: The dazzling new place to stay on the island of Capri
- Spring Budget 2024: A ‘missed opportunity’ in the housing market
- The Country Life Top 100 architects, interior designers, craftsmen, builders and garden designers in Britain
- The best country house builders, craftspeople and specialists in Britain
- The best garden designers and landscape architects in Britain
- The best interior designers in Britain
- The best country house architects in Britain
- John Lewis-Stempel: The beauty of the beach in winter
- A breathtaking Gothic fantasy of a home, with wall-to-wall colour, four-poster beds and a topiary gardener
- Trafalgar Square celebrates 25 years of Fourth Plinth art — but is it time for a permanent piece?
March 7th
- Jo Thompson Landscape and Garden Design
- Modern elegance in this 6,500sq ft home cut into a hillside in the Kentish Weald
- Handbags, Ferraris and priceless paintings — these are a few of our favourite things (to invest in)
- A Scottish country home near St Andrews that once bred championship winning sheep
- Millway
- How to make braised beef short rib with celeriac-and-Parmesan mash
March 6th
- Jane Brown Associates
- Donald Insall Associates
- One of Britain's most beautiful waterfalls is for sale — and naturally it comes with a B&B and a tea room
- Country Life's Top 100: The magic of timelessness
March 5th
- Country Life 6 March 2024
- A Grade II*-listed hall house in North Yorkshire with Capability Brown gardens
- Joe Gibbs: Even the patron saint of salmon can't save these fish from the seals
March 4th
- Porta Romana distinctive lighting and furniture archive sale
- Podcast: Britain's best architects, interior designers, craftspeople and garden designers
- Isabella Worsley Ltd.
- One of Suffolk's great country house estates — 12 bedrooms, 1,763 acres and 36,000sq ft — comes up for sale at £19 million
March 3rd
- A glorious Cotswold kitchen lifted to new heights with pitch-perfect colour choices
- Six superb country houses in some of England's most beautiful spots, as seen in Country Life
- When it comes to designing and making a garden, it's always worth seeking advice
- The three dog breeds that make the ultimate family pet, according to expert trainer Ben Randall
- The exotic and irresistible beauty of Leighton House
March 2nd
- A historic mill conversion in Warwickshire that wouldn't look out of place on Grand Designs
- Curious Questions: When — and why — did we stop wearing hats?
- Giles Quarme Architects
- Coromandel Crewels
- The world's most beautiful opera house foyer? A tour of the glorious gardens of Glyndebourne
March 1st
- Housing market back on the up, and buyers 'resorting to bribery' to secure their dream homes
- Eadie & Crole
- Thorp Design
- London's most exotic place to stay, the heartbreakingly beatiful suite in Alec Guinness's favourite old haunt
- 'The equation is inescapable. Our rich societies will simply have to pay the proper price for food'
- Tom Turner Architects
- Inside the extraordinary hotel that put a remote Indonesian island on the map
- The best country houses for sale in Wales, from a Strawberry Gothic manor, to an old Coastguard station
- The art heist with a happy ending, 15 years later
- Sims Hilditch
- VSP Interiors
- Knowles