# Humphry Repton

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March 24, 2021 A Fantastic Native Plant Resource, Mark Catesby, Aven Nelson, Bloodroot, Gardens in the Spirit of Place by Page Dickey, and Humphry Repton

Today we celebrate a remarkable English naturalist and artist. We'll also learn about the man known as the Rocky Mountain botanist. We hear a journal entry about bloodroot. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about place and how location, location, location is just as important to gardens as i…

Repton’s vision | Sheringham Park

Join us a stroll through Sheringham’s magnificent rhododendron gardens as we unearth the colourful history of these exotic flowers, from the adventures of the plant hunter who sourced them to their starring role in the Upcher family’s 1950s champagne parties.Learn about the designer who sculpted th…

Humphry Repton and his Red Books

On the bicentenary of Humphry Repton's death Helen Mark finds out all about the landscape gardener and his red books. Humphry Repton is the last English landscape designers of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown. He created over 400 designs across Britain and…

370: Woburn Abbey, Garden Show 2018

Martin Towsey is the Estates Gardens Manager of The Bedford Estates, responsible for all horticultural matters on The Bedford Estates across the UK and, is also show producer of the Woburn Abbey Garden Show. On this episode of The Sodshow Peter Donegan talks with Martin and also former guest Step…

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 Historical Events 1619 Birth of Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. In 166…

Wembley Park - where champion trees meet champion footballers - with masterplanning head Julian Tollast and estate landscape manager David Hughes

This week head of masterplanning Julian Tollast and David Hughes, estate landscape manager tell us about the transformation of Wembley Park which has given the area around the eponymous stadium an ''urban arboretum" and includes far more extensive and varied green space than people may realise. One…

Garden stories with Diarmuid Gavin: Humphry Repton (1752–1818)

This week’s Garden Stories turns to the quietly revolutionary figure of Humphry Repton (1752–1818), the last great name of the English landscape tradition and the man who bridged the classical sweep of Capability Brown with the rising tide of the Romantic and Picturesque. Though he came late to his…

March 24, 2026 Mark Catesby, Humphry Repton, Fern Leaf Garden Column Chicago Tribune, Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols, and William Morris

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today's Show Notes Today is about the work behind the beauty. A plant hunter paddling inland in a cypress canoe. A d…

All Around Is Fairy Ground: Pleasure and the Regency Garden with Timothy Mowl (Reaktion, 2026)

Regency gardens dazzled with colour, invention and theatricality: trellises heavy with roses and jasmine, shrubberies designed for intrigue and lawns enlivened with pools, grottoes and fanciful ornaments. Yet behind this world of perfume and spectacle lay a striking social shift. In a domain long d…