Judicious moves
Jul 14, 2021
3 minutes
Interview Peter Hughes
YOU’LL hate the kitchen,’ Peter Hughes told his wife, Christine, over the phone after viewing a potential new home in the Lake District, ‘but the garden is to die for.’ ‘It was on that basis,’ he continues, ‘that we bought the house’. That was 13 years ago. The story is certainly a pleasingly apt anecdote from the new chairman of the Gardens Trust, the charity that promotes the education and understanding of gardens and garden history, as well as the importance of protecting and preserving notable gardens and landscapes.
At the time, Mr Hughes was
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