EN John Andrew Brookes MBE (11 October 1933–16 March 2018) was a garden and landscape designer. Brookes started designing gardens and landscapes in the late 1950s and is the most influential landscape and garden designer of the past fifty years. He has designed thousands of gardens, and has taught and lectured about horticulture, landscape and interior design on six of the seven continents. Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other…