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 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 ...

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 ...