Posts Tagged ‘Humphry Repton’
April 21, 2022 Jan van Riebeeck, Humphry Repton, Charlotte Brontë, John Muir, Royal Gardens of the World by Mark Lane, and National Day of Sa’di
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History 1619 Birth of Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. In 1660, Jan planted a…
Read MoreRemembering the Last Great English Landscape Designer of the eighteenth century: Humphry Repton
Subtitle March 24, 1818 Today is the anniversary of the death of the innovative and all-time great landscape gardener Humphry Repton. (Note that there is no ‘e’ in the spelling of Humphry). Humphry was trained and molded by the great Capability Brown. As he matured, Humphry broke away from his mentor’s shadow and led…
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