Blooms forged from fire and steel

Inspired ideas and buys for the great outdoors

At a rural foundry studio in Suffolk, Alice-Andrea Ewing uses a centuries-old technique to preserve autumn’s fruits and veg

The garden at Salthrop Manor, Wiltshire The home of Sophie Conran

In March 2019, gardener Jo Downes dropped in to Corsley House in Wiltshire to see a friend, and by the time she left she had a job. Glen Senk and Keith Johnson, Anglophile Americans who had bought the

A boom of blooms My foxgloves eventually blossomed ...

Walled gardens are an everyday feature of large country estates, but the splendid example at Broughton Grange defies all expectation. Rather than being a tucked-away working area for growing flowers a