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From Rats to Riches…

Recent stars of Grand Designs, Paul & Amy Wilkinson’s home, near Boston, is the crowning achievement of a life of hard-work and good humour. This month we meet the couple and find out how gamekeeper turned businessman Paul has turned rats to riches, helped in no small way by the wife and partner he describes as his best friend and soul mate… The Golden Hour. It’s a term photographers use to describe a special time, typically half an hour fore and aft of sunlight or sunset. You can be in an everyday place but in that hour, the light becomes just that extra bit special, as if imbued with a little magic that makes it shine a bit softer, a...

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Gunby Hall: The Glory of the Garden

‘Our England is a garden,” wrote Rudyard Kipling in his book, The Glory of the Garden. “And such gardens are...

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How Does your Garden Grow? Daphne Ledward reveals all…

Few gardeners are as knowledgeable or as headstrong as Surfleet’s Daphne ‘Daffers’ Ledward. The reluctant broadcaster soon found herself imparting...

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5 Tips for Growing Your Kitchen Garden with Adam Frost

Have you ever stopped to consider whether the future will be better? For every decade since the mid-20th century, futurists...

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Lines Across Lincolnshire

A landscape moves and changes due to geological and historical events. Lincolnshire’s landscape has seen many such events and so...

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15 House Plants for Christmas

There’s no shame in being a fair weather gardener. Who truly enjoys going outside in the bitter cold to pull...

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Shooting in Lincolnshire

The shooting season is upon us, here’s how you can get involved from picking up a shotgun for the first...

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Gardening: A Family Affair

Just outside Wragby is a hidden paradise of herbaceous perennials and woodland walks. The oasis of greenery – a rare...

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Doddington Hall’s Marvellous Gardens

Capability Brown, the famed 18th century landscape architect, transformed hundreds of stately home gardens up and down the country in...

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Golfing in Lincolnshire

There’s a breadth of golf courses across the county, and whether you’re a beginner, a more advanced player or a...

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Grimsthorpe Castle’s Magical Gardens

This month sees the first day of a whole summer calendar of garden events taking place at Grimsthorpe Castle. The...