However, if you stand on the terrace, which runs the full length of the house and look towards the lake, there is one outstanding feature, which is greatly admired by the public, a magnificent Monkey Puzzle tree. It probably pre-dates Mawson. Bizarrely, the Lake District National Park Authority, who have owned this site for the last 40 years, have announced their intention to chop it down. It’s as if they were offended by the only remaining thing of beauty in the garden and wanted to get rid of it, so that the whole place would look uniformly drab. The Cumbria Gardens Trust are outraged and have written to Richard Leafe, the LDNPA’s chief executive, giving him a piece of their mind. I agree with Lord Cavendish that we shouldn’t preserve old things simply because they are old, but the thing about Monkey Puzzle trees is that they start off looking rather horrid and grow into things of beauty. This is one of the best, it’s beautiful in its own right, and it would be shameful to kill it.
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