The Year of the English Garden will turn the spotlight on ‘Capability’ Brown, born 300 years agoHe was called “the Shakespeare of the gardening world”, a humble estate manager’s son from Northumberland who was feted by the great and good of Georgian society.The designs of Lancelot “Capability” Brown, born 300 years ago this August, dramatically changed the face of England’s green and pleasant land and are still in evidence today. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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