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Alan Titchmarsh: A foolproof guide to growing wisteria
WEBJun 22, 2023 · Feeding your wisteria with a generous helping of rose fertiliser (rich in flower-promoting potassium and magnesium) every March will help to promote regular flowering and healthy growth. If your wisteria has been pruned and fed and grown on a sunny wall and still refuses to flower after three or four years, give it up as a bad job, haul it out ...
Property for sale in the Cotswolds - Country Life
WEBCotswolds property for sale. Straddling Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire, this beautiful part of the heart of England boasts rolling hills and peaceful, winding rivers. Parts of it – particularly in Oxfordshire – are close enough to London to be commutable, but always far enough away to feel ...
Best country houses for sale this week - Country Life
WEB3 days ago · Buckinghamshire — £1,650,000. Utterly spectacular, this Tudor country house is set in 40 acres of parkland — this sale is not for the whole, but for the 4,283sq ft East Wing. As well as communal gardens with pool and tennis courts, there are separate private gardens with stables. For sale with Michael Graham.
Spectacular Scottish castles and estates for sale - Country Life
WEBJun 3, 2024 · Highlands — £7,500,000. A 1,000-acre estate with a red stone castle at its heart. Woodland and pasture are part of the landscape, with deer stalking and scope for a driven shoot. The agents also cite the opportunity to develop further. For sale with Goldsmith & Co.
‘Unleashed, mad and dangerous’: How Britain’s wild, romantic …
WEBJun 13, 2020 · But it was an altogether humbler dwelling, a Yorkshire farmhouse, that raised the moorland novel to its peak, in 1847. For some early readers of Wuthering Heights, the landscape’s identification with the star-crossed lovers was too unleashed, mad and dangerous by far.To return to Conan Doyle, these critics would have agreed with the warning sent to Sir Henry Baskerville on his arrival from ...
Birkhall: The home of The Prince of Wales on the Balmoral estate ...
WEBSep 12, 2022 · On The Queen Mother’s death in 2002, Birkhall passed to her grandson, Charles, Prince of Wales and Duke of Rothesay, and although the garden today bears many of his hallmarks, at its heart is the spirit of a native Scot who loved this part of the world and who felt, for Birkhall, a particular affection. ‘It is,’ says Prince Charles ...
11 things you never knew about the jackdaw, the bird that just …
WEBMay 20, 2018 · Ian Morton takes a look at the jackdaw, a bird with a real affinity for man – despite a chequered reputation in our history and literature. Jackdaws are pleasing to watch. Solemnly and methodically, they stalk the lawn, unhurried in their search patterns, neat and tidy and dignified in their bearing. Unlike the larger and clamorous cousins ...
How the Bloomsbury group's interiors at Charleston ... - Country Life
WEBOct 25, 2021 · The joyful exuberance of the Bloomsbury Group’s spiritual home is having a notable bearing on the work of designers and craftspeople living nearby, finds Arabella Youens.
What you need to know about the new rules on log burners, wood …
WEBDec 8, 2021 · From January 1, 2022, all new woodburners must meet strict Ecodesign efficiency and emissions limits. Furthermore, look out for various levels of clearSkies certification marks, which distinguish solid-fuel stoves that both meet and go beyond Ecodesign requirements.