If you've ever wandered around an English stately home and its magnificent gardens, you will have noticed there is something worth gawking at at every turn. Each flower bed carefully stewarded to ...

Few gardens have their own heliport, yet this is far from the most remarkable of the many extraordinary features of Tresco Abbey Garden, 28 miles off the coast of south-west Cornwall, which, for most ...

The thick grape ivy that hugs the facade and brick chimneys look like they have been there for centuries. Looks are deceiving, however, because this stately, seemingly old mansion lovingly called ...

"It was a process!" India Hicks exclaims over the phone. She's referring to her latest book, India Hicks: A Slice of England, but she could just as easily be discussing what it took to build her ...