Get involved in Celebrating Humphry Repton
The more people get involved in our campaign, the better the celebration of Humphry Repton will be! If you are organising a Repton 200 event, you can use the Celebrating Humphry Repton logo and other campaign materials. To publicise your event on our events page or join our e-newsletter list to hear news about the campaign, please […]
Photography competition celebrates Repton
The International Garden Photographer of the Year award and the National Trust’s Sheringham Park are celebrating the life of landscape gardener Humphry Repton with a special award for photographs of his landscapes. The 2017 special award is for images taken at places he helped to design, ahead of next year’s celebrations of Humphry Repton. The […]
Launch of Repton 200 celebrations
Aylsham in Norfolk will host the official launch of Repton 200 – a year of nationwide celebrations coordinated by the Gardens Trust marking the bicentenary of the death of Humphry Repton, who succeeded Capability Brown as Britain’s greatest landscape gardener. Norfolk is where Repton first worked as a landscape gardener, at Catton Park, and where […]
Humphry Repton: his life and work
Repton was born in Suffolk in 1752 and became the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century. During his life he designed around 400 landscapes and gardens, and became famous for his Red Books. Early life Repton was born into a well-to-do family in Bury St Edmunds on 21 April 1752, the son of […]