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 ...

Swans swim in a lake at Sheffield Park near Haywards Heath, in southern England. Capability Brown planned the 265 acres of landscaped gardens in the 18th century. (Nigel Roddis/Reuters) Despite his ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Channel 4 Features has commissioned Capability Found from Spun Gold, a 3 x 60 celebrating the life and work of Lancelot “Capability” Brown, Britain’s master gardener of the late 1700s. Presented by ...

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 ...

The award-winning Warwickshire art gallery in a Grade I-listed Georgian mansion is set in 120 acres of Grade II-listed Capability Brown parkland, and will spearhead the national festival of Brown's ...

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 ...

IN 1762 James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster, wrote to Lancelot Brown, then living on the outskirts of London, offering him £1,000 to cross the Irish Sea and create a picturesque garden at Carton, ...