Since then Hugh, Lord Cavendish of Furness, and his artist wife Grania have turned Holker (pronounced 'Hooker') into one of the loveliest gardens in England, attracting 70,000 visitors a year. With its 150 acres of parkland, formal gardens and woodland …
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No organic material is more acidic than the tiny leaves jettisoned by larch plantations in great brown showers every autumn, so much so that Dutch growers propagate millions of azaleas for the British market on beds of pine needles. Since one of the …
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The Prince of Wales also has wild flower meadows at Highgrove, and this summer the wetlands in the Olympic Park were decorated with colourful banks of British annual wildflowers. Loss of habitat through global warming is posing a major threat to …
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