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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.
Best country houses for sale this week - Country Life
WEBSep 19, 2024 · Buckinghamshire — £1,500,000. 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.
Alan Titchmarsh: A foolproof guide to growing wisteria
WEBJun 22, 2023 · Do this every year and your plant should not disappoint. Your wall will need some kind of support framework, as wisteria is a twiner, with no sticky pads such as those on Virginia creeper or aerial roots on ivy. Stout horizontal wires fastened to sturdy vine eyes screwed into the wall at intervals of 18in give the most unobtrusive support.
The slithering truth about the snakes of Britain, from grass snakes …
WEBSep 29, 2021 · As we all know, snakes possess the ability to shed their skin — the average snake sheds two to four times a year. It takes about a week to slowly shrug off the old garb through a process called ecdysis and they do so to allow them to grow — a snake’s scaly skin is designed to protect it from moisture loss and provide a …
Scotland property for sale - Country Life
WEBWhether it’s a farmhouse in the Scottish Borders, an amazing Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh, or a cottage on the stunning west coast, Scotland has a brilliantly varied selection of property for sale. Prices are lower than England – you can buy a castle for the price of a semi-detached three bedroom home in Surrey – and the quality of ...
Windmills: England’s beautiful remnants of a simpler time
WEBJun 6, 2021 · Some are more famous than others. John Constable painted the mill at Petworth, West Sussex, and, in Buckinghamshire, Cobstone features as the home of Caractacus Potts in the 1968 film adaptation of Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.In the BBC’s mystery crime series Jonathan Creek, starring Alan Davies, it’s King’s Mill in Shipley, West Sussex, that steals the show.
Country Life 13 July 2022
WEBJul 13, 2022 · We're thrilled and delighted that HRH Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has guest edited the 13 July 2022 edition of Country Life magazine. Many months and many thousands of hours have gone into the making of this special issue, which covers an incredible breadth of topics. Everything from the natural wonders of the South Downs to …
The 12 best flowering shrubs to plant for year-round colour in …
WEBApr 9, 2022 · Some of our best evergreen shrubs flower in winter — think of camellias, daphnes, mahonia and rosemary. There are some spectacular winter-flowering rhododendrons, too: your first encounter with R. ‘Christmas Cheer’ will be a lightbulb moment. 12 of the best flowering shrubs to plant to …
An entire village beside a lake, for sale at just £125,000 — but …
WEBJun 26, 2021 · It was never a big place: the earliest concrete record, from the 1841 census, records just 17 residents. Fifty years later that was down to seven — all of whom lived in the long-gone Pier House, just outside the bounds of this property — and the last known resident left in 1826.