After walking around the park, I checked out the indoor exhibit where another visitor called by attention to the angel trumpet plants:
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Visiting Brookside Gardens and thinking about Capability Brown
Looking over the rolling landscape created at Brookside, I thought about an article I recently read about Capability Brown, 18th century British landscape architect. Throughout Britain, he created gardens that appeared natural but actually were thoroughly artificial, and his style influenced landscape architecture since. Prior to Brown, the wealthy landowners favored for their country estates formal gardens with geometrically straight lines, a style popular in France and Italy. Brown replaced these with pastoral fields, ponds, and woodlands. This style of landscaping is now common in the U.S. and can be seen in Central Park in New York City as well as most golf courses.
After walking around the park, I checked out the indoor exhibit where another visitor called by attention to the angel trumpet plants:
After walking around the park, I checked out the indoor exhibit where another visitor called by attention to the angel trumpet plants:
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