Thenford: The Creation of an English Garden

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He had developed a set of appalling financial problems. The magazines were losing money and a market slump hit the property business. He was saddled with an unsold housing estate in Tenterden, one of the least accessible small towns in Kent. Winter had set in early; nobody wanted to buy. Heseltine favoured privatisation of state owned industries, a novel idea in 1979 as the Conservatives were initially only proposing to denationalise the industries nationalised by Labour in the 1970s. [127] He’s even had a plant named after him, a Chinese whitebeam called Sorbus heseltinei. Only he and head gardener Darren Webster have custody of a database in which more than 13,000 different shrubs and trees are catalogued, along with their exact co-ordinates. It means the peer can look at his phone at any point in the garden and it will tell him what’s growing there – even if he usually knows already.

In the middle of it all stands a handsome fountain by William Pye featuring four 12ft jets of water which land in a huge bowl. Press Association (24 March 2017). "Michael Heseltine: Germany will 'win the peace' because of Brexit". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 March 2017. Now, 43 years later, the Grade I-listed house is surrounded by 70 acres of magnificent gardens and a renowned arboretum, tended with care by head gardener Darren Webster and his team. As part of his ongoing campaign to buy titles off other publishers, Heseltine noticed a magazine called The Accountant which was easily paid for by vast amounts of advertising. Robert Heller produced a dummy edition of a Haymarket version, modelled on the Daily Telegraph, which became Accountancy Age. Following an international phone call between Heller, who was on holiday in Portugal, and Heseltine who was on a political trip to Singapore, the launch date was brought forward by three months on learning that a rival publication was to be launched. Accountancy Age was launched in December 1969, largely by Haymarket's business development manager Maurice Saatchi, and was profitable from the start. [71] The Heseltines’ first priority in those early years was to keep the children happy. So they built a swimming pool and commissioned Quinlan Terry, the celebrated classical architect, to design a pool house which now looks as if it might have been there since the days of Squire Woodhull. Michael wanted a proper lake, too.Helm, Toby (3 March 2018). "Tories' Brexit unity fades as Heseltine slams May's speech". The Observer . Retrieved 4 March 2018. a b "Oral history: HESELTINE, Michael (b.1933)". The History of Parliament . Retrieved 14 July 2016.

a b c Michael Parkinson and James Duffy, "Government's Response to Inner-City Riots: The Minister for Merseyside and the Task Force," Parliamentary Affairs (1984) 37#1, pp. 76–96. Heseltine was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project. [249] [250] No stone unturned [ edit ] Heseltine speaking to Policy Exchange in 2013 The Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe, spoke highly of Heseltine's contribution to NATO and WEU conferences. Heseltine was as angry as Thatcher at the US invasion of Grenada, a Commonwealth country. He wanted warmer relations with the Soviets and was sceptical about the US Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"), putting in a brief and grudging appearance at Caspar Weinberger's Ditchley Park Conference about the topic in 1985. [160] With lukewarm support from her Cabinet, most of whom had told her that she could not win and faced with the bitter prospect of a Heseltine premiership, Thatcher withdrew from the contest and announced her resignation on the morning of 22 November, although she continued to serve as Prime Minister until a new party leader had been chosen. [203]

a b Odone, Cristina (5 April 2013). "Michael Heseltine at 80 on Boris, Ukip and why he won't visit Lady Thatcher". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 9 April 2013. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. Shortly after his appointment as Minister for Merseyside, Heseltine gave his annual party conference speech, in which he condemned talk of repatriation and called for more public spending on inner cities. Although he felt he had taken a risk – the speech was in marked contrast to Norman Tebbit's "On Your Bike" speech a few hours later – he received his usual standing ovation and later recorded that it was the one of his speeches of which he was most proud. [142] Collecting plants and trees is the most wonderful therapy and form of escape,’ explains Michael. ‘You go into a different world and it took me away from my red boxes. We are both born magpies and the process of collecting has been an essential characteristic of what we have done at Thenford’ m

a b Magnus Linklater; David Leigh (1986). Not with honour: the inside story of the Westland scandal. Sphere Books. p.11. It's Kate vs William... again! Competitive couple go head-to-head in netball drills and try out a sport for visually impaired athletes Historic England. "Thenford House Water Tank(Grade II) (1041125)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 3 April 2020.The next snowdrop open days at Thenford Gardens & Arboretum in Northamptonshire will be on February 9, 19 and 22. Advance booking is required; visit thenfordarboretum.com . Nor has it been his vision alone. As he is the first to admit, it has been very much the work of his wife, Anne, too. And now the two of them have written the story of this monumental project in a beautiful new book which will captivate gardeners, tree-lovers and the downright nosy as much as it will intrigue political junkies. Heseltine's book Where There's A Will was written by a team of ghostwriters directed by Keith Hampson and Julian Haviland (former political editor of ITN and The Times). Academics, businessmen and economists contributed, and he often had them thresh out ideas in front of him. "He acquires by social intercourse the knowledge that other people acquire by reading", one adviser commented. The collated drafts were then rewritten by Haviland to "give it one voice". Hugo Young called it "the most impressive [book of its kind] I've read by a modern Conservative". [188] Lord Heseltine has Tory whip suspended for saying he'll vote Lib Dem". The Independent. 20 May 2019. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022 . Retrieved 20 May 2019.

Baron Heseltine interviewed by Mike Greenwood". British Library Sound Archive . Retrieved 14 July 2016. Heseltine: I did not kill my mother's Alsatian". BBC News. 1 November 2016 . Retrieved 1 November 2016. The economic environment is showing some signs of improvement. Sunak looks set to hit his inflation target of 5 per cent by the end of the year and the economy is growing faster than rivals Germany and Italy. Fired up" is not the word I'd use,' grumbles Heseltine. 'It's got a lot of relatively explicit sex and therefore there's been a lot of publicity about it. That bit I found faintly embarrassing and boring.' Anne muses: 'You'd think that they did nothing but bed-hop.' I ask about their cross-party friendships, including their friendship with Alastair Campbell. 'I love him,' says Anne. 'Terrible books, though.' John Campbell (30 April 2011). Margaret Thatcher Volume Two: The Iron Lady. Random House. p.487. ISBN 978-1-4464-2008-9.Following the arrival of the Coalition into power in 2010, he was commissioned to draw up "Plan H" or "No Stone Left Unturned" to stimulate growth in local areas. Since then, 81 out of his 89 recommendations have been adopted. At the 2013 Budget, the Coalition pledged to pool billions of pounds of regional spending into a single fund in a bid to de-centralise public spending and boost economic growth outside London. [251] Other Heseltine comments [ edit ] Prince William accused of having a 'dirty mind' as he jokes that the aubergine is his most-used emoji - while Kate reveals symbol she uses 'when things have gone wrong'