This week's brilliant issue of Country Life, May 18, celebrates magnificent summer gardens and previews the Chelsea Flower Show 2016 - plus don't miss the stars of the Field & Country Fair
** RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
This year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show is largely focused on our mental and physical fitness, finds Mark Griffiths
** FEATURES
Flora Watkins profiles John Bell & Croyden, which has been dispensing cures for more than 200 years
** FIELD & COUNTRY FAIR
Agnes Stamp meets the stars of the Field & Country Fair
** GARDENS
Tim Longville visits the remarkable restored garden at Cadhay in Devon
+ Mark Griffiths delves into the colourful world of penstemons at Kingston Maurward Gardens in Dorset
** ARCHITECTURE
Digital modelling has permitted detailed reconstruction of Holt Castle in Denbighshire, as Rick Turner explains
** FOOD
Nothing compares to the soft, floppy leaves of a homegrown British lettuce, says Melanie Johnson
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Everything you need to know about private jet travel and 10 rules to fly byDespite the monetary and environmental cost, the UK can now claim to be the private jet capital of Europe.
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'I'd willingly give a year of my life for a fortnight there': The green dream that is the garden of DerreenExotic woods, labyrinths of narrow, mossy paths and thousands of tree ferns make this an internationally important garden, writes Charles Quest-Ritson. Photographs by Jonathan Hession.
