Blogs about: Capability Brown

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Day of a Thousand Plugs2 comments

Grounds Team wrote 2 days ago: Out in the grounds at Compton Verney tomorrow, we’re playing host to a group of volunteers on … more →

Tags: Grounds flora and fauna, Grounds team updates, bitc, Compton Verney, Employee Volunteering, Give & Gain Day 2013, Lloyds Banking Group, Naturescape, rotovator

Down Your Wold Launches!

downyourwoldheritageproject wrote 1 week ago: If you want to find out about the heritage in your area then the Down Your Wold Project is for you! … more →

Tags: Heritage, Lincolnshire, wolds, aonb, History, Medieval, Louth, archaeology, Architecture

Cyclopes & Turtle Soup - A Visit to Burghley House

nadiawood wrote 2 weeks ago: April has been such a busy month that I now have loads to tell you! I’m working on some really excit … more →

Tags: Heritage, wedding Planning, Burghey, Stamford

CAPABILITY BROWN by Dorothy Stroud.

Lancelot Capability Brown wrote 2 weeks ago: Published by Country Life Ltd, Faber & Faber. Considered by many to be the master work on Brown, … more →

Tags: Brown Books, Country Life, Dorothy Stroud, Faber & Faber

Warwickshire – Compton Verney

Lancelot Capability Brown wrote 1 month ago: 1768 – 1770s Compton Verney CV35 9HZ Compton Verney has like many a Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown land … more →

Tags: Capability Brown Landscapes - The A to Z, 18th Century, Baroque, Charlecote Park, Chinese Bronze Collection, Compton Verney, Compton Verney Greenhouse, Compton Verney Orangery, Fine Art

Capability Gray11 comments

Mary Gray wrote 1 month ago: I may not be installing giant lakes, building fake temples, or displacing villages full of peasants, … more →

Tags: Garden Designers Roundtable, landscape design, Structures, belgard, painted fence, stone retaining wall, TechoBloc, wooden play structure

Learning for the Third Age

Francis wrote 1 month ago: Learning is a lifelong activity: there’s no such thing as a “finishing” school. That precept is at t … more →

Tags: Events, Longoio, Italy, Lucca, Bagni di Lucca, British Institute of Florence, University of the Third Age, Francesco Geminiani, vajont

CAPABILITY BROWN AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LANDSCAPE

Lancelot Capability Brown wrote 1 month ago: by Roger Turner. Published by Phillimore & co. ISBN 1 86077 114 9  To those with ‘a poet’s feeli … more →

Tags: Brown Books, CAPABILITY BROWN AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LAN, Phillimore & co, Roger Turner

Chilham Castle Kent

Dawn Blee Blue Badge Tour Guide wrote 1 month ago: Another fascinating gem of a country house in Kent. There has been a castle on the hill top from Sax … more →

Tags: kent, Events, Blue Badge Tourist Guides, Dawn Blee, blue badge guide, Chilham Castle, John Tradescant

BLENHEIMS CASCADE....7 comments

Stuart Hyde - shpics wrote 2 months ago: Just a couple of miles from SHpics winter retreat are the gardens of Blenheim Palace… Some anc … more →

Tags: Places, objects, Nature, Photo, stuart hyde, Photography, Travel, travel photography, water

CAPABILITY BROWN AND THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN.

Lancelot Capability Brown wrote 2 months ago: CAPABILITY BROWN AND THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN by  LAURA MAYER. Shire Publications. ISBN-13: 978 … more →

Tags: Brown Books, english landscape garden, laura mayer

Essex - Audley End

Lancelot Capability Brown wrote 2 months ago: 1763 – c1767 Saffron Walden CB11 4JF Google Map – click here Research for this Capabilit … more →

Tags: Capability Brown Landscapes - The A to Z, audley end, English Heritage, Essex Gardens, George III, Omnipotent Magician, robert adam, saffron walden, Sir John Griffin Griffin

In Remembrance of Capability Brown...

CharlecoteNT wrote 3 months ago: ‘Capability’ Brown is responsible for creating many of our much loved landscapes. He is … more →

Tags: On this day, Your Blogs, Parkland, park, on this day, YOUR blog posts, anniversary, Gardener, landscape

Preservation and the Real Downton Abbey3 comments

bricksandmortarpreservation wrote 3 months ago: Image via The Chicago Maroon The third season of Downton Abbey currently has its American audience o … more →

Tags: Place Memory, Tourism, Spindletop Hall, Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, 5th earl of carnarvon, English Country Houses, Charles Berry, Julian Fellowes

Twelfth of March*2 comments

jojoassistantgardener wrote 3 months ago: How time flies… on 12 March it’ll be a year since I started working as Assistant Gardene … more →

Tags: Flowers, Community, Planting, garden management, Gardens, National Trust, amenity, Volunteers, Sustainablity

The Bath House, Corsham Court c1761-3

Lancelot Capability Brown wrote 4 months ago:   The Bath House – British Listed Buildings Corsham Court Gardens … more →

Tags: Landscape Garden Images, Corsham Court, Gothic Bath House

Ha-Ha's and Fisherwick

Lancelot Capability Brown wrote 4 months ago: Many times I’ve heard people mention ‘ha-ha’ in conversation; and many a time I’ve liste … more →

Tags: Brown Extra - Read all about it!, Fisherwick, Ha-ha!, How to Read an English Garden, Volunteers, Historic Gardens of England, Corsham Court, timothy mowl

Downton Abbey and the English Garden1 comment

marioherrada wrote 4 months ago: Well a year has come and gone and a new year is upon us.  For the third year in a row the New Year a … more →

Tags: landscape design, maintenance, gardening, edible garden, Plants, Downton Abbey, english garden, Highclere Castle, Secret Garden

Steeped in Kirkharle Interpretation

Lancelot Capability Brown wrote 4 months ago: I find myself in Kirkharle Courtyard, in a lower lying section of the breathtakingly beautiful North … more →

Tags: Brown Extra - Read all about it!, Kirkharle, Northumbria, cambo, Rothley Lakes, Lorraine


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