Garden Designer Woburn Abbey
Congratulations to woburn abbey garden for its on going programme for the restoration of the garden designed by humphry repton 1802 5 repton is by far the most important landscape and garden theorist of the nineteenth century and it is a pity that more of his work can t be seen.
Garden designer woburn abbey. As he wrote in 1818 humphry repton might be accused of often advising the same thing at different places. This became a key tenet of regency garden style. Jan 15 2014 repton was a talented artist surveyor and horticulturist and combined these skills to become the first self titled landscape gardener.
The red book for woburn abbey 1805 strictly limited. Innovative garden designer humphry repton designed over 400 gardens in a 30 year career introducing ornamental elements to garden design allowing a more gentle transition from house to agricultural landscape. Humphry repton proposed his first terrace in 1791 and was to propose many thereafter.