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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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This blog has been devised to answer some of the many questions raised by the life and career of the great landscape gardener, or place-maker, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783), whose tercentenary we celebrate in 2016. Questions are numbered and logged on receipt, and responses are currently uploaded at a rate of three or four a week. All questions are numbered in order of receipt, and can therefore be read either in that order, or in the order of responses (a late response implies a question that required a hearing from the Brown Advisor in full fig). All contributions are welcome; all can be anonymous if contributors so prefer. John Phibbs has been the architect of these celebrations, and is proud to advise the many committees involved on all matters pertaining to Brown. He occasionally tweets (@jlphibbs) but, when not at the Tatler's Waste-Bin, muses on the best way to communicate the greatness of Capability Brown. Is there no alternative to the master-class? And what are master-classes anyway? An introductory post has been issued (note 164).

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