It's Christmas day. You've probably run out of things to talk about. Why not do this quiz to pass the time? Answers will be posted at 1:30pm tomorrow. So that was 2024 1) Which ITV television drama ...

The right poster can evoke a film without words, stir nostalgia and entice viewers into cinemas. We’ve taken a selection from ...

Over the Christmas period we'll be featuring some of the best stories of the year from the Country Life website.

From the gardens of A-listers and crazed plant hunters to tips on compost, we covered it all in 2024. Charles Quest-Ritson admitted in April that he never fell for orchids the way he has for roses — ...

Once you are hooked by walnuts and want to grow more varieties, you find an extraordinary amount of choice. Charles Quest-Ritson explains more.

We’re more emotionally connected to the robin than any other bird, says Mark Cocker, as he considers why we feel so much ...

With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the ...

Variously described as ‘wearing a cloak of silver’ and looking like ‘a hoary old man’, Jack Frost has attracted many artistic depictions over the centuries — some more positive than others.

What does it take to open a new hotel on the Chatsworth Estate? One 19th century card game, a multi-million pound restoration ...

Waking up to discover the garden transformed by a short, sharp hoar frost is a magical experience. Tiffany Daneff looks at ...

In the last of our series on the people who make Christmas in the country what it is, Paula Lester speaks to wine merchant Tom Ashworth. It’s perhaps not terribly surprising that Tom Ashworth ended up ...

A roofless conversion of an E-Type, Disney fever dream and more in this morning's Dawn Chorus round-up.