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300 Frequently Asked Questions about Capability Brown, and a further 200 about Humphry Repton

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245: Did Brown work at Wentworth Castle?

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On April 23, 2016

In Avenues, Components of landscape, Earthworks, Planting, Understanding Brown, Views

The spoil heap at Wentworth Castle

The spoil heap at Wentworth Castle

Days come in late March or in April, when Spring has not wholly disentangled herself from Winter, but there is a freshness to the air and it is better to be out than to be in. So I am advised by the good folk of Health and Safety , who have asked me to warn you that happiness can cause damage in confined spaces.

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185: What can we say about Holly?

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On February 20, 2016

In Components of landscape, Planting

The difficulty with holly, ‘winter’s pride’ as the poet Thomas Gisborne put it, is not that it is hard to find in the landscapes of of that captain of capability, Lancelot Brown, but that it is impossible to tell whether it has been planted or has arrived naturally.

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Hullo all, they call me Oofy, Oofy Price actually. Well the Tatler’s Waste-bin was a wash-out. Just not licking the lolly. So me and the chaps have taken over and we’re starting a paper. ‘The Repton Gazette’. Sounds good doesn’t it? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a wow for Reppers. Humphry - incidentally – he gets the hump – get it? - if you put the ‘e’ in. Same rules as for the last lot (questions numbered and logged on receipt, responses whenever we get round to it, everyone anonymous unless requested otherwise). Thought it would be jolly to start numbering with 1818 (year Repton died) and rock up to the present, 200 FAQs later. So the sooner the team gets here, the sooner we start. Ta-ta for now. Oofy. Incidentally. They keep up-dating the Brown stuff. The latest changes are notes 13, 41, 99, 101, 104, 154, 157, 166, 266, 271, 297 and 298.

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