The size, climate and balling geological complexity of the British Isles have influenced national taste, too. The latter has given us a fabulous range of building materials so marvellously described ...
Are you bored of the Cotswolds clamour? Do you find talk of the Chipping Norton set tedious and despair at property price hikes across Gloucestershire’s pretty but off-radar villages? The Cotswolds ...
The glamorous, showy flowers of hibiscus are a joy in summer and autumn. Hazel Sillver looks which of these colourful, exotic plants to grow and how ...