{"id":6665,"date":"2015-03-04T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2015-02-28T03:38:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T10:38:25","slug":"capability-brown-landscape-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/capability-brown-landscape-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"Capability Brown Landscape Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLancelot Brown 1716 – 1783<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lancelot Brown is the most famous gardener who popularised English landscape design. Lancelot Brown’s nickname ‘Capability’ came from his saying about an estate he was commissioned to work on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIt has great capabilities’ .<\/p>\n

During his life he was Sheriff of Huntingdon, gardener to King George III, architect and innovator of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLandskip\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 gardening. At the age of 24 he went to Lord Cobhams garden at Stowe where he learnt from William Kent who had studies Italian and Grecian gardens and John Vanbrugh. In 1764 Lancelot Brown was appointed Master Gardener at Hampton Court.<\/p>\n

Lancelot Brown described himself as a ‘place-maker’ not a ‘landscape gardener’. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want a series of tableaux within a garden, he wanted a piece of countryside. Formality and straight lines had to go and to avoid fences he created the Ha-ha a sunken version. Flowers were cosigned to walled gardens and trees imported to suit his design.<\/p>\n

Some of his designs were elaborate and involved changing hills and lakes and some thought them lavish. After his death the strong vision he had carried through in his work fell out of favour and only in the last century was he fully rehabilitated.<\/p>\n

Capability Brown is believed to be responsible for over 170 gardens surrounding the finest country houses and estates in Britain. He never worked in Ireland saying ‘he hadn’t finished England yet. His work still endures at Blenheim Palace, Warwick Castle, Harewood House, Milton Abbey and below is a further edited list of his work. Get out and visit some of these 18th century landscapes:-<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Althorp, Northamptonshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Aske Hall, North Yorkshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Burghley House, Lincolnshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Battle Abbey, East Sussex\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire\u00c2\u00a0 e
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Burton Constable Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Cambridge, The Backs
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Chatsworth, Derbyshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Grimsthorpe Castle
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Hampton Court Palace, Surrey
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Harewood House Leeds
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Holkham Hall, Norfolk
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Hoo, Hertfordshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Hornby Castle, North Yorkshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Kiddington, Oxfordshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Kirtlington, Oxfordshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Knowsley, Liverpool
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Leeds Abbey, near Leeds Castle, Kent
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Lleweni Hall, Clwyd
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Longleat, Wiltshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Lowther, Cumbria
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Petworth House, West Sussex
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Ragley Hall
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Roche Abbey, near Sheffield
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Scampston Hall
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sheffield Park Garden
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sledmere House
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Stowe Landscape Garden
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Syon House
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Temple Newsam
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Warwick Castle
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Wentworth Castle, South Yorkshire<\/p>\n

Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown is one of our top 100 gardeners<\/a> of all time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lancelot Brown 1716 – 1783 Lancelot Brown is the most famous gardener who popularised English landscape design. Lancelot Brown’s nickname ‘Capability’ came from his saying about an estate he was commissioned to work on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIt has great capabilities’ . During his life he was Sheriff of Huntingdon, gardener to King George III, architect and innovator of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLandskip\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 gardening. At the age of 24 he went to Lord Cobhams garden at Stowe where he learnt from William Kent who had studies…<\/p>\n

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