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Paul Copley (Downton Abbey) narrates this series that takes a close look at iconic gardens created during four very different eras, with each garden giving us a fascinating window into a different century and the people that created it.

Documental · 2014 · 59 min

Reparto Paul Copley · Chris Beardshow · Andrea Wulf

EPISODIO 1

Great Dixter

Christopher Lloyd's garden Great Dixter, one of the most innovative, spectacular and provocative of the period.

56 min · 1 ene 2014
EPISODIO 2

Stowe

Created on a vast scale with 36 temples, 8 lakes, and a dozen avenues, Stowe launched the career of Launcelot ‘Capability’ Brown and fostered a rebellion that overthrew the first British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. Rather than being a garden of flower and shrubs, Stowe is a garden of ideas, and its grottos and classical monuments spell out a furious, coded political manifesto.

58 min · 1 ene 2014
EPISODIO 3

Biddulph Grange

Biddulph Grange, the best surviving Victorian garden in the country, takes the visitor on a whistle-stop journey around the world from China to Egypt in a series of gardens connected by tunnels and subterranean passageways.

58 min · 1 ene 2014
EPISODIO 4

Nymans

The Messels arrived in Britain in 1870 at a time when both anti-Semitism and anti-German sentiment were rife. Nevertheless Ludwig Messel succeeded in establishing a successful stock-broking firm and creating at Nymans the quintessential English garden with rare plants and a theatrical herbaceous border inspired by William Robinson.

58 min · 1 ene 2014

Paul Copley

Narración
Chris Beardshow

Presentación
Andrea Wulf

Presentación
Alan Power

Presentación
Katie Buchanan

Producción