This week in Country Life we meet the flower champions behind the UK’s 600-plus national plant collections, preserving species from acers to zelkovas, we explore Broughton Hall in North Yorkshire and discovers how one family transformed its medieval seat into a fashionable home, we celebrate the extraordinary charms of the tortoise, we reveal why real men should read maps and we learn to cook with strawberries.
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A well-connected rural playground with 23 acres on the edge of the South Downs National ParkOld House Farm is an impressive family home with a wealth of amenities that would inspire any rural passion.
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The UK gets its first ‘European stork village’ — and it's in West SussexAlthough the mortality rate among white storks can be up to 90%, the future looks rosy for breeding pairs in southern England.
