Complex sentence: In the late seventeenth century William Bruce put Scotland at the forefront of European garden design, lowering garden walls to incorporate the surrounding landscape into the vista that focused on significant landscape features such as Bass rock at Balcaskie and Loch Leven Castle at Kinross.
Split into simpler sentences: In the late seventeenth century William Bruce put Scotland at the forefront of European garden design, lowering garden walls to incorporate the surrounding countryside into the vista. This allowed a focus on significant landscape features such as Bass rock at Balcaskie and Loch Leven Castle at Kinross.