Celebrating 300 years of #CapabilityBrown landscapes. The Festival is now over, tweets will continue for a while. Funded by @HeritageFundUK
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Creating Arcadia from @googlearts featuring images from @HE_Archive Online exhibition reveals how #art & #antiquity influenced #English #garden design in the #Georgian era. Written by @JeniferJWhite & @politicdormouse for @HistoricEngland #gardenhistory bit.ly/3iptAf2
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17 Jul 2024
& at a very special Grade II* listed country park
Coombe Abbey, a
@BrownCapability landscape
See historicengland.org.uk/listi…
👏 @coventrycc on your #GFA2024 award
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25 Jun 2024
So good to have my first lake swim of the year after a hot day working in the garden @AshburnhamPlace Thankful to Capability Brown for deciding a lake was needed here! @BrownCapability #wildswimming
ALT Photo of a lake with reeds in the left corner, a line of buoys through the water & a line of woodland on the far bank
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15 Mar 2024
Back in 1979, The Front Garden showcased three gardeners' extraordinaire - Mrs Barnes who tended a graveyard garden in Castleton, Derbyshire and Mr & Mrs Harrison, torch-bearers to Capability Brown at the majestic Brocklesby Park in North Lincolnshire.
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13 Mar 2024
Join us for a guided walk to the Panorama Tower next Thursday 21st March. Meet our volunteer walk leader & set out from the visitor centre at 11am; £7.50 per person (booking essential/normal admission applies).
Find out more at nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/w…
📷 Katherine Alker
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7 Feb 2024
“Your Dryads must go into black gloves, Madam. Their father-in-law Lady Nature’s second husband, is dead! Mr Brown dropped down at his own door yesterday” wrote Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory on 7th February 1783. #OTD #OnThisDay #CapabilityBrown
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18 Jan 2024
Oh frosty days! It's a time to pull on your woolly hats, breath in the crisp winter air and take in views like these, where the trees stand out against a carpet of frost across the landscape. Probably followed by a hot cuppa in the café.
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📸NT/ J Hubble
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16 Jan 2024
New book by Advolly Richmond: Short History of Flowers: The stories that make our gardens - unraveling the surprising histories of 60 flowers that shape our gardens ... read more 👇
@AdvollyR @Frances_Lincoln @GWandShows #historyofflowers
thedirt.news/a-short-history…
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3 Dec 2023
Listen to the beautiful voices of The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir in the historic setting of our Capability Chapel before enjoying a festive drink and sweet treat and exploring our art galleries and exhibition.
Book now for 16 December: ow.ly/3av050Qbusp
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27 Nov 2023
It's #NationalTreeWeek and this is Croome's oldest tree at around 700 years old.
We've carried out work to preserve and protect this English oak, including propping a major limb to ensure it stays attached and surrounding it with a hand crafted fence.
📸 NT/Hugh Warwick
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28 Oct 2023
A surprise calf has been born at Croome. Named 'Capability' by Rob, our tenant farmer, after the eighteenth-century landscape designer 'Capability' Brown who created the landscape at Croome today. The calf looks black here but it is brown... 'Capability' Brown.
📽️@RobHavard1
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29 Oct 2023
Our @BrownCapability pastoral landscape created between 1769-1777 always has something to offer from so many different angles @RothleyLowLake #Northumberland
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17 Oct 2023
...@RothleyLowLake @ClaireBFarms @BrownCapability...just stunning, #Northumberland what a place!? #capabilitybrown #riparian #pastorallandscape #codgerfort #RothleyLowerLake
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6 Oct 2023
Hallingbury Place, Essex, demolished 1926, has its c1750s Grade II* Shell House restored, possibly designed by Capability Brown @BrownCapability, two miles away @NationalTrust Hatfield Forest @NTEssex.
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26 Sep 2023
The aptly named ‘Beauty’ - Petworth Park, England 🌳
Photo: Jeroen Philippona
#thicktrunktuesday
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13 Sep 2023
The invitations are here! Hope to see you at one or both of these upcoming events @RobilantVoena in Mayfair, London. Please RSVP to maria@robilantvoena.com if you plan to attend.
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We’ve created a list of churches that Capability Brown has designed, as well as those that he has a more personal connection to, so you can find out more about this brilliant 18th century gardener and architect. ⬇️ nationalchurchestrust.org/ex…
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#OnThisDay in 1716 Lancelot Capability Brown was baptised in Kirkharle, Northumberland. Brown was a landscape designer who is referred to as the 'Shakespeare of gardening'. We funded the #CapabilityBrown Festival @BrownCapability in 2016.
ALT River with vivid green grass and trees around it.
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