{"id":3147,"date":"2009-12-04T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T10:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2009-12-04T10:37:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T10:37:55","slug":"set-for-a-king-200-years-of-gardening-at-the-royal-pavilion-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/set-for-a-king-200-years-of-gardening-at-the-royal-pavilion-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Set for a King &#8211; 200 years of gardening at the Royal Pavilion Brighton &#8211; book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3296\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3296\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/04\/set-for-a-king-200-years-of-gardening-at-the-royal-pavilion-brighton\/humphry_repton_design_brighton_pavilion\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3296\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3296\" title=\"humphry_repton_design_brighton_pavilion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/humphry_repton_design_brighton_pavilion-390x258.jpg\" alt=\"Humphry Repton's design for the grounds of the Brighton Pavilion surives and could be an influence on the layout of the gardens\" width=\"390\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humphry Repton&#39;s design for the grounds of the Brighton Pavilion surives and could be an influence on the layout of the gardens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Written by Mike Jones and published in 2005, this is a beautifully produced book on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/royal_pavilion_brighton\">Royal Pavilion in Brighton<\/a>. Jones was head of Conservation and Design in Brighton and has contributed a remarkable set of flower paintings to the book. It gives a full account of the original project and of the restoration project. One could hardly ask for more but, for me, the project raises a question: was the decision to restore the Nash garden design right? John Nash designed the garden but his &#8216;inspiration&#8217; undoubtedly came from his former partner, Humphry Repton. Repton published a full account of his own garden design ideas and they were much better than Nash&#8217;s scheme. So isn&#8217;t there a case for implementing Humphry Repton&#8217;s design?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Mike Jones and published in 2005, this is a beautifully produced book on the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. Jones was head of Conservation and Design in Brighton and has contributed a remarkable set of flower paintings to the book. It gives a full account of the original project and of the restoration project. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}