Landscape designer Capability Brown worked on 250 sites across England and Wales and left a gardening legacy that continues to shape our response to nature and the countryside. Show more Capability ...

February marks the start of year-long celebrations of the life and work of England's greatest gardener, Lancelot "Capability" Brown. Born in 1716, Brown was best known for designing gardens and ...

IT’S said that Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was given his distinctive nickname because he would assure landowners that their ground had the 'capability' to be transformed by his ideas. It must be said, ...

Historic documents have uncovered landscape gardener Capability Brown's unrealised design for the landscape around Cambridge's historic colleges. In the 1770s the chancellor of Cambridge University ...

From beer to bulbs to sculptors’ busts, one of Northumberland’s greatest historical figures has been comprehensively celebrated in the 300th anniversary year of his birth. Surprisingly, Lancelot ...

Major restorations under way at British castles and palaces to mark 300 years since birth of celebrated landscape gardener Some of Britain’s finest gardens designed by Lancelot Brown, the ...

Capability Brown is known as the founder of landscape design. In the 1700s, he created some of the most magnificent landscapes in England. He travelled the length and breadth of the country, improving ...

Bunny Guinness is a garden designer, journalist and broadcaster who has been writing for The Telegraph for more than 20 years. She has won six Gold Medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, appears regularly ...

A garden design by Capability Brown, one of England's greatest gardening architects, is to be brought to life after remaining hidden for 250 years. Capability Brown's first garden: Brown was born and ...

13:00, Fri, Mar 25, 2016 Updated: 13:27, Fri, Mar 25, 2016 Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown was the Shakespeare of English garden design. In the 18th century he helped to transform the English landscape, ...

On 29th May 2018 a memorial to the famous landscape gardener and architect Lancelot Capability Brown was unveiled at Westminster Abbey. The lead cistern fountain is in the centre of the main cloister.