Property News · February 26, 2016

Thousands of trees planted and lakes restored for Capability Brown festival


Major restorations under way at English castles and palaces to mark 300 years since birth of Britain’s most celebrated landscape gardenerSome of Britain’s finest gardens designed by Lancelot Brown, the Northumberland farmer’s son who, under his nickname Capability Brown, became synonymous with the 18th-century English style of landscape gardening, are to be celebrated in a summer festival.The Capability Brown festival 2016, marking 300 years since his birth in the village of Kirkharle near Morpeth, has secured access to gardens normally closed to the public. The great estates of Blenheim and Chatsworth, the National Trust, English Heritage, and London’s Historic Royal Palaces are taking part. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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