Few gardening movements can match the impact of the 18th century landscape movement and Stowe school in Buckinghamshire is one of the most important examples of their revolutionary designs. Here we find a rejection of the rigid formality of the previous century and an embracing of nature, no matter what the ecological cost.
Alan Titchmarsh visits Hatfield House to look at the gardens of this 17th century stately home. He will examine the famous parterres which are some of the first examples of Britain’s affection for formal gardening.
