The Arcadian Friends
by Tim Richardson
Richardson does two things. For one thing he really knocks Capability Brown off his green throne … But what he does very brilliantly, unlike any other garden historian I know, is that he doesn’t only consider the pretty landscape and plants. He really understands that in the 18th century the landscape garden was a canvas to express your political beliefs.
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