If you want to buy any of the plants mentioned below for your own
garden, visit www.countrylife.co.uk/nursery and type or copy and paste
the name into the search. Plants are delivered in sturdy boxes in a
matter of days from one of the finest nurseries in the country.
Garden trees such as birches and cherries with awkwardly placed lower branches can be pruned now, with no risk of the weeping sap that readily gushes at other times. Take your time deciding the effect you wish to achieve, then step forward with secateurs, loppers and folding saw (the ‘Grecian Bend'). Small shoots can be cut off cleanly, not flush with the trunk, but back to the little projecting collar. Leave no 4in ugly stubs to jab the skin of later visitors. Larger branches should be cut off in sections to lessen the weight and minimise the risk of unseemly tearing.
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Can't you hear me S.O.S? Our treasured native dog breeds are at risk of extinctionDo you know your Kerry blue terrier from your Lancashire heeler? A simple lack of publicity is often to blame for some of the UK's native dog breeds flying dangerously low under-the-radar.
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'There are architects and architects, but only one ARCHITECT': Sir Edwin Lutyens and the wartime Chancellor who helped launch his stellar careerClive Aslet explores the relationship between Sir Edwin Lutyens and perhaps his most important private client, the politician and financier Reginald McKenna.
