Capability Brown

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

@GreenFlagAward @mrdaveguest @HistoricEngland & at a very special Grade II* listed country park Coombe Abbey, a @BrownCapability landscape See historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… 👏 @coventrycc on your #GFA2024 award

@jayashworth2 @Avid_eva @AshburnhamPlace Not jealous at all!

@Avid_eva @AshburnhamPlace @BrownCapability It was just right yesterday, warm but refreshing! Swimming while Swallows & Dragonflies swoop overhead is rather special

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

@jayashworth2 @AshburnhamPlace He did have some good ideas!

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.

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/worceste… 📷 Katherine Alker

“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

#CapabilityBrown died 241 years ago #OnThisDay 6th February 1783 #OTD #RIP

#CapabilityBrown died 241 years ago #OnThisDay 6th February 1783 #OTD #RIP

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. nationaltrust.org.uk/croome 📸NT/ J Hubble

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-histor…

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

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

#CapabilityBrown #Halloween2023

@NTCroome @RobHavard1 A perfect name!

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

Our @BrownCapability pastoral landscape created between 1769-1777 always has something to offer from so many different angles @RothleyLowLake #Northumberland

...@RothleyLowLake @ClaireBFarms @BrownCapability...just stunning, #Northumberland what a place!? #capabilitybrown #riparian #pastorallandscape #codgerfort #RothleyLowerLake

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. bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/news/hatfield-… heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRecor… lostheritage.org.uk/houses/lh_esse…

The aptly named ‘Beauty’ - Petworth Park, England 🌳 Photo: Jeroen Philippona #thicktrunktuesday