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Great English Gardens |
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The magnificent landscaped gardens at Stowe were built in the early 1700s by Lord Cobham, a wealthy Whig MP who developed them into a showcase for his wealth and taste acquired from studying the classics. Together with his head gardener Capability Brown, Cobham set about creating听a natural landscape but with a formalised approach.听
In听the next in our series on great English gardens,听Andrea Wulf explains to Maggie Ayre how the gardens at Stowe have contributed to听garden design.
'This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History' by Andrea Wulf and Emma Gieben-Gamal is published by Little Brown, ISBN 0-316-72580-3.
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