Giles & mary ‘welcome to our lovely grottage’

Claudia Savage-Gore is set to turn her back on Maida Vale

Dame Mary Berry, baker, cook and keen gardener, is as happy among the plants in her plot as she is among the pots and pans in her kitchen

A serendipitous move from the country to a bustling high street marked a fresh chapter for Gail O’Reilly, whose 18th-century cottage blends warmth, colour and pattern

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

The current custodians of a Cotswolds manor have rekindled its centuries-old spirit, making a stylish and welcoming home

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