Capability Brown - BBC Documentary 2016

Capability Brown is known as the founder of landscape design. Three hundred years ago he created some of the most magnificent landscapes in England. He travelled the length and breadth of the country, improving more than 200 of the greatest estates in the land, for some of the most influential people in the eighteenth century. But there is one plan that never got off the drawing board. His own garden. The only land he ever owned was in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire. But he died before he could carry out any plans for his own garden. Today it is a piece of flat land, bisected by the A14 dual carriageway. Landscape designer and Gardeners' Question Time regular Bunny Guinness travels across England to some of Capability's finest landscapes -Blenheim, Burghley, Milton Abbey and Castle Ashby - to understand what he might have created. Rediscovering plans and letters, and using the latest technology, Capability Brown's unfinished garden is brought to life.

[@poetryjones7946]

Wonderful, and thank you so much for not ruining this with adverts in mid stream ❤️🌹

[@cecilefox9136]

I talked about him in my English class in Spain last Friday!

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

When it comes to my gardening I'm known as incapability Mc Donagh

[@user-iq2lp2pj8y]

`grazie!!

[@celeritas2-810]

Thanks so much for the upload, needed something totally diverting today and this did the job wonderfully.

[@48mastadon]

Imagine what he could have done today with modern machinery.

[@Concetta20]

That's amazing. That village looks like a modern day suburb.

[@stefankempkes3769]

Does anyone know the name of the music at 16:04 ?

[@teslaandhumanity7383]

Sad 😢he never got his own landscape.

[@marymoorgarden]

shame this was uploaded in such a low resolution.

[@mattiemclean9882]

you watched it for free. You didn't have to watch it. people like you moaning about every fucking thing you can think of drive me mad

[@ej3016]

probably keeps it from being taken down - for those of us without any other way of watching shows like this - it’s just fine - am glad it was posted

[@PLuMUK54]

Thank goodness his plan for Cambridge came to nothing.

[@ParzivalPheonix]

Is she drunk?

[@bunnyguinness]

No i wasn't!🐇

[@RoseSharon7777]

This is like reading fiction. I have no interest in "what might have been".

[@CalmDownPeople]

He destroyed the English landscape.