18th century garden reveals splendours
The rescue and restoration of one of Luton’s historic landmark buildings has had an unexpected result.
Gardeners at Luton Hoo, owned by Elite Hotels for the past five years, have been painstakingly restoring the grounds and formal gardens of the original work of one of England’s greatest landscape gardeners, Capability Brown.
Specialist landscape architects and historians have been carrying out research and ecological surveys into the original designs and the 10 year project aims to restore the site, which in its day was second only to Blenheim Palace in size and investment.
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Hide AdOther projects include restoring the Victorian grass tennis court with a pavilion which can rotate to follow the sun, and the late 19th century sunken rockery, above, hidden by hedges, shrubs and trees, which leads to a ‘pet cemetery’.