Country Life May 18 2016

This week's issue celebrates magnificent summer gardens and previews the Chelsea Flower Show 2016, plus don't miss the stars of the Field & Country Fair.

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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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Agnes Stamp

Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.