Lord Michael Heseltine. Thenford House. 2016.

Lord Michael Heseltine interview 2016: dog Kim, gardens & Thenford House - Tatler:
Thenford House, Arboretum & Gardens.

The Sculpture Garden: the one piece that gets most comments from visitors, unsurprisingly, is the socking great head of Lenin.
It was removed from a KGB building in Latvia soon after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. But what are several tons of Communist propaganda doing on a huge brick plinth in the garden of a Tory peer?
‘People forget that under Communism, the only Soviet patron was the state,’ says Lady Heseltine, ‘so all these artists had to channel their talent into pieces like this. When the Berlin Wall came down, I was worried that all these things would be destroyed so I was determined to rescue something.’

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Garden. The sexual symbolism of the gardens.

National Trust urged to abandon garden 'prudery' | UK news | The Guardian:
The National Trust has been challenged to come clean about the passionate truth hidden beneath the smooth green curves of some of its most famous landscaped gardens.
"These gardens are all about sex, but their history is being covered up by National Trust prudery," said the architectural historian Dan Cruikshank. "This makes it impossible to understand their true significance and historical importance."

The sexual symbolism of the gardens - artificial hollows and mounds, temples and columns - would have been clear to an educated 18th-century audience steeped in classical culture, he said. The modern visitor needed a little extra help but none was offered by the guide books.