Homes & Gardens: When Land Went Back to Nature ; in the Second of an Occasional Series, Anne Jennings Looks at the Development of Georgian Gardens

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There is a common phrase bandied about in gardening circles that transforms one of Britain's most visionary designers into something of a villain.

The Georgian landscape gardener, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, is often accused of having 'swept away the formal gardens of the 17th century', as though personally responsible for what was in reality a gradual, albeit dramatic, change in British garden style through the 18th century.

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Homes & Gardens: When Land Went Back to Nature ; in the Second of an Occasional Series, Anne Jennings Looks at the Development of Georgian Gardens

The truth is that Capability Brown arrived on the Georgian gardening scene more than two decades after the first innovative ideas about 'natural' landscapes were being discussed and experimented with.

These in turn had been driven by changes in garden fashion through the later decades of the 17th century...

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