Country Life Magazine (July 16, 2024): The latest issue features ‘500 Shades of Green’ – Why is it the eye’s favorite hue; Rex Whistler’s triumph and tragedy; Big hearts and funny faces – the bull terrier and Alan Titchmarsh’s favorite flower show…

Our green and pleasant land

Our eyes can detect more of its shades than any other colour and its many hues are bound up with everything from jealousy to British racing cars—it’s all gone green for Lucien de Guise

It’s a bullseye

‘Life is merrier when you live with a bull terrier’ owners tell Katy Birchall as she delves into the kindly and comic character beneath the muscular frame

Showing the way

Goodwill and gardening go hand in hand at the ‘beautifully formed’ Royal Windsor Flower Show—and Alan Titchmarsh wouldn’t miss it for the world

First to fall

Rex Whistler refused to leave fighting the Second World War to ‘young boys’, but his courage and leadership was to cost him his life, as Allan Mallinson reveals

Lyndon Farnham’s favourite painting

The Jersey chief minister picks a work that encapsulates the island’s spirit and determination

‘Most costly and church-wise’

In the second of two articles, John Goodall investigates the 17th-century expansion that provided Lincoln College, Oxford, with a quite outstanding chapel

The legacy

Music will ring around the Royal Albert Hall again this summer thanks to Henry Wood and his Proms, reveals Octavia Pollock

All The King’s Whales and all The Queen’s dolphins

With more species around our shores than anywhere else in northern Europe, Ben Lerwill keeps his eyes peeled for porpoises, whales and dolphins

The good stuff

Hetty Lintell shells out on fine jewellery that is sure to impress    

A stitch in time

Debo Devonshire’s love of chic, chickens and Chatsworth in Derbyshire is celebrated in a new exhibition, discovers Kim Parker

Interiors

Giles Kime explores large-scale wallpaper capable of transport-ing you to a whole new world

Country Life International

• Jersey earns royal approval
• Antonia Windsor marks 150 years of La Corbière lighthouse
• Paul Henderson spices up his life with Jersey’s East Asian cuisine
• Nick Hammond brews his own island tea
• Holly Kirkwood picks the best properties for sale

Over the hills and far away

Tiffany Daneff marvels at the spectacular views that have been restored at the Old Rectory at Preston Capes, Northamptonshire

Kitchen garden cook

Crunchy fennel is a summer highlight for Melanie Johnson

Time for some merriment

Michael Billington is royally entertained as Shakespeare receives a modern, mirth-filled twist in Stratford and London