HAPPY NEW YEAR! If you hadn’t already realised 2018 is Repton Year, when we’re commemorating the life and work of the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century. Unlike the Festival for his ‘predecessor’ Capability Brown there is no great central nationally funded organization. Instead Celebrating Humphry Repton will be a collaborative effort, which, even though although it can’t match the funding of CB300, looks certain to match the enthusiasm and spread of interest nationally. County Gardens Trusts and other groups will be arranging events around the country throughout the year to celebrate Repton’s work. You can find a list – continually being updated – at this dedicated webpage on The Gardens Trust website. If you would like to get involved or receive updates email repton@thegardenstrust.org. The more people who join in, the better the celebration!
And of course the blog is going to play its small part. Repton has already been the subject of two posts way back in April 2104 [ A general one about his life and another on his work at Ashridge] but during the course of this year I’m going to look at aspects of Repton’s approach to garden and landscape design, in what I hope is a less conventional way so that I [and you the reader] don’t get Humphed-out by the end of the year and wish that he’d never been born!
But where to start?
The more I read the more complicated Repton becomes, until I asked myself what’s the one thing that everyone knows about Repton? He made Red Books. But the how and why he did isn’t quite so obvious. It isn’t even clear why he became a landscape gardener in the first place. So lets start there…. Continue reading
However, as I’ve said in previous years some posts have hardly been read at all. Why did the idea of spending 
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