A Time to Plant: Life and Gardening at Holker (Hardcover)
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