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 career—only styling himself a “landscape gardener” in his mid-thirties he left a lasting legacy through over 400 commissions and, most notably, through his extraordinary invention: the Red Books,
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