Tag Archives: Humphry Repton

Lady Dorothy and Dangstein’s ‘aerial orchestra’

Posted on 16/07/2016 by The Garden History Blog

It could have been the headline in a red-top scandal-sheet: Earl’s young daughter found in ‘a compromising situation’ in the summer house. Today no-one would care, but in 1846 by being found hidden away in the garden, unchaperoned and … Continue reading →

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Killerton

Posted on 22/08/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Earlier this year I went on a nostalgia trip back to Exeter where I was at college. One of the places I wanted to see again was Killerton, the home of my tutor Sir Richard Acland. Apart from being an extraordinarily inspiring … Continue reading →

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Tiglath-Pileser I & the passion he shared with William Robinson

Posted on 11/10/2014 by The Garden History Blog

It’s not every day that an exotically multi-syllabled king of ancient Assyria gets mentioned in the context of Brtain’s historic parks and gardens. But I was writing a lecture about early plant hunting and decided to start with evidence from antiquity when … Continue reading →

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John Claudius Loudon…. and Greenhouse Technology

Posted on 27/05/2014 by The Garden History Blog

Its been a while since I wrote my last piece on Humphry Repton and I was thinking about a follow-up on the Picturesque when into my inbox came a new post from Matthew Beckett’s excellent blog The Country Seat covering … Continue reading →

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Humphry Repton at Ashridge

Posted on 20/04/2014 by The Garden History Blog

A few weeks after Repton’s death in 1818 an obituary appeared in the New Monthly Magazine which I thought, when I first read it, summed him up rather neatly: “Mr. Repton was an artist of elegant attainments and good taste, more calculated … Continue reading →