The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden... plus her diary for the week!

Floral prints and pastel colours bring lovely highlights to Amy’s home, and style experts agree they offer a magical way to do things a bit differently

October brings the first of the frosts, bewitching mist, the turning of leaves and a host of otherworldly visitors, finds John Lewis-Stempel

Make life lovely

Your walls are the greatest canvas with which to express the personality of your home, so don’t let them be dull

Few potteries operating today capture the mood of comfortable English life as well as Emma Bridgewater. Founded in 1984 when Emma couldn’t find a suitable present for her mother and decided to make on