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    Gardeners with a story

    Jul 12, 2022 2 minutes

    In this extract from AG 20 June 1970, we look at one of the greatest gardeners of all time

    WILLIAM Kent, ‘Capability’ Brown and Humphry Repton were the ‘big three’ of the naturalistic style of garden design. Kent was the first of the landscape school, then Brown formalised the principles and with him the fashion spread

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