2016 was Visit England’s ‘Year of the English Garden’. It was also the year of the Capability Brown Festival – a nationwide celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716–1783). The Festival was funded with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and had two main strands:

1. Increasing public access to sites Brown created and advised on – opening access to sites not usually seen by the public and increasing information and interpretation.
2. Research: discovering more about Brown’s work and how he created his landscapes. Research by volunteers, schools and professionals was shared through exhibitions, publications and a range of events.

Articles in The London Gardener

Site	Author	Article	Volume	Pages	Read
Church Lane, Wimbledon	Matthews, Tony	‘Capability’ Brown in Wimbledon, Roehampton and Putney	18	96
Downing Street	Various	The ‘Delicious Walled Garden’ in Downing Street	18	65-66
Garrick’s Villa	Sumner, Chris	Conservation Notes: A Tour of London's Historic Landscape Initiatives	3	36
Gunnersbury Park	Fleming, Suzannah	The Enduring Fragment: the 'Temple Garden' at Gunnersbury Park in the Nineteenth Century	7	57, 58, 61, 66
Hampton Court	Jacques, David	A Strategy for the Park and Gardens at Hampton Court Palace	2	45
Ingress Abbey	Taigel, Anthea	Obituary for Ingress	4	22
Putney Heath	Matthews, Tony	‘Capability’ Brown in Wimbledon, Roehampton and Putney	18	99
Richmond Gardens	Harris, Eileen	St James's Park Improved; The Majestic Plans of John Gwynn and Thomas Wright	2	11
St James’s Park	Harris, Eileen	St James's Park Improved; The Majestic Plans of John Gwynn and Thomas Wright	2	12
Sion Hill	Harris, John	A Soliloquy on a Middlesex Map	1	20
Sion Hill	Harris, John	Le Rouge's Sion Hill: a Garden by Brown	5	24-28
Wimbledon Park	Matthews, Tony	‘Capability’ Brown in Wimbledon, Roehampton and Putney	18	91, 92illus, 94illus, 95