Set for a King

200 Years of Gardening at the Royal Pavilion
by Mike Jones

The restoration of the Royal Pavilion Garden at Brighton is the first major reinstatement of a Regency garden in Britain. Mike Jones’s lively and informative narrative covers the development of the site from 1783, when George, Prince of Wales, first visited Brighton. He traces the influences of Humphry Repton, John Nash, and other fashionable architects and designers who worked on the Pavilion and its Garden, follows its decline during the Victorian period, and chronicles its remarkable full-scale restoration, which began in the 1980s. Today there is a new appreciation of the value of a more natural landscape style and the Regency garden is back in fashion.

This important work of garden history is lavishly illustrated with over 250 plates, including reconstructions of the Royal Pavilion’s Garden at key dates, along with photographs and specially prepared drawings of all the plants.

Mike Jones is Head of Conservation and Design at the Royal Pavilion.

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