Tag Archives: Humphry Repton

What’s going on the Shrubbery? And what’s it got to do with Mr Repton?

Posted on 17/03/2018 by The Garden History Blog

This post started out life months and months ago as a draft piece on eroticism in the garden generally. I’d found some great images and references and was looking forward to surprising you, my readers, with a little naughtiness….surely not … Continue reading →

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Repton in a flap! Red Books and theatricality…

Posted on 10/02/2018 by The Garden History Blog

What’s the one thing that everyone knows about Humphry Repton apart from the fact that he spelt Humphry without an E? I’d guess it’s the fact that he produced Red Books, so called because of their red morocco leather bindings. … Continue reading →

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Repton and his business

Posted on 06/01/2018 by The Garden History Blog

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 … Continue reading →

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An unlikely Michaelanglo: John Buonarotti Papworth

Posted on 23/09/2017 by The Garden History Blog

The wonderfully named John Buonarrotti Papworth, was an architect , interior and garden designer and a near contemporary of John Claudius Loudon, Humphry Repton and Frederick Crace.  You may not have heard of him, or if you had, maybe like … Continue reading →

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The Hanging Gardens of Stoke Edith

Posted on 11/02/2017 by The Garden History Blog

The British galleries in the Victoria & Albert Museum hold many treasures but probably none more interesting to lovers and historians of gardens than two large early 18thc wall hangings from Stoke Edith in Herefordshire.  They show elaborate formal garden scenes in … Continue reading →

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