{"id":1362,"date":"2020-11-23T12:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2020-11-23T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:48:35","slug":"brown-greening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Brown &#038; Greening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capability-Brown-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capability-Brown-book-cover.jpg 330w, https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capability-Brown-book-cover-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capability-Brown-book-cover-117x150.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Capability Brown&#8217;s 300th anniversary I was invited to speak at a conference at Hampton Court. My role was to reveal the Greenings who worked in the decades before Brown, often in a similar style, and whose landscapes had often been obliterated, wholly or in part, by later owners who commissioned Brown. I rather enjoyed singing their praises and pooh-poohing him in a roomful of Brown groupies! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From that event has emerged this book, edited by Jon Finch and Jan Woudstra, which was published by White Rose Press on 2 November. It can be <a href=\"https:\/\/universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk\/site\/books\/e\/10.22599\/CapabilityBrown\/\">downloaded<\/a> free of charge or purchased as a hardback volume.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">I am delighted to say that my talk has grown into Chapter 9 of the book and I hope readers find it interesting &#8211; there is far more information there than in the posts on this website. In the 4 years since 2016 I have uncovered much more about the Greening family and that will appear here in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Capability Brown&#8217;s 300th anniversary I was invited to speak at a conference at Hampton Court. My role was to reveal the Greenings who worked in the decades before Brown, often in a similar style, and whose landscapes had often been obliterated, wholly or in part, by later owners who commissioned Brown. I rather enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middlesex-gardeners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}