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A Time to Plant; Life and Gardening at Holker

by: Hugh CavendishPhotographs by Grania Cavendish

ISBN: 9780711232846 | 0711232849

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date: 6/26/2012

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

In the tradition of The Garden at Chatsworth, this book started out as an account of the gardens of another great Cavendish estate, Holker Hall in Cumbria. It has turned into much more: it is the story of a family, of a life, of a community, of continuity with the past and adaptation to the modern age. Hugh Cavendish writes about the history of Holker, which dates back to the sixteenth century and has never been bought or sold but has passed by inheritance through the family line, with each each generation leaving its impressions. He writes... MORE too about his family - his grandparents who, faced with 'serious financial embarrassment' sat down with a list to find savings and 'having identified essentials, they agreed to give up taking Country Life and having hot water and lemon after dinner' - but still thought it not unreasonable to plan to divert a river to run through the park; his mother ('relations with my mother were never good, and often spectacularly bad'); his aunts (collectively identified as the 'Aunt Heap'). He describes his own life, as a child at Holker ('when I look back I allow myself the indulgence of believing I was not quite as stupid as my schoolmasters held me to be; nor quite as lazy) and later as the owner of Holker, finding a way of managing huge resources and responsibilities and also immense debt. And, of course, he writes about the garden.

At once a history of Holker Hall in Cumbria, the story of a family, a life, a community and an exploration of continuity with the past and adaptation to the modern age. Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness, owner of Holker Hall in Cumbria, writes about the history of Holker, which dates back to the sixteenth century and has never been bought or sold but has passed by inheritance through the family line, with each generation leaving its impressions. He writes too about his family - his grandparents who, faced with 'serious financial embarrassment' sat down with a list to find savings and 'having identified essentials, they agreed to give up taking Country Life and having hot water and lemon after dinner' - but still thought it not unreasonable to plan to divert a river to run through the park; his mother ('relations with my mother were never good, and often spectacularly bad'); his aunts (collectively identified as the 'Aunt Heap'). He describes his own life, as a child at Holker ('when I look back I allow myself the indulgence of believing I was not quite as stupid as my schoolmasters held me to be; nor quite as lazy) and later as the owner of Holker, finding a way of managing huge resources and responsibilities and also immense debt. And, of course, he writes about the garden.

Introduction	p. 6
History and Place	p. 14
Seven Women	p. 32
The Aunt Heap	p. 48
Boyhood	p. 58
In at the Deep End	p. 70
Modest Progress	p. 82
New Confidence	p. 98
Landmarks New and Old	p. 124
The Collection	p. 156
The Collection Continued	p. 202
Epilogue	... MOREp. 250
Index	p. 266
Acknowledgements	p. 272
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Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness FRSA, is a landowner and politician. He owns Holker Hall and its surrounding estates overlooking Morecambe Bay in Cumbria and serves in the House of Lords as a Conservative life peer. He has also been High Sheriff of Cumbria and a member of Cumbria County Council and is currently President of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain. He is married to Grania Cavendish.

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