To celebrate their 20 Birthday The Devon Gardens Trust published a brief History documenting their formation, and their first Journal which demonstrates the wide-ranging interests of our members.

Contents of the Journal - Issue 1
Garden Recording by Devon Gardens Trust - Mary Clarke and Carolyn Keep
Garden Information from Sale Catalogues - Carolyn Keep
The NCCPG in Devon - John Carter
Another Brick in the Wall? Restoration or Decay: The State of Walled Gardens in Devon Today - Kim Auston
The 'Industrious Poor': Nineteenth Century Devon Allotment Gardeners - Clare Greener
Rousdon - John Clark
An Examination of the Gardens at Langdon Court - Susi Batty
Stone Lane Gardens - Paul Bartlett
Brunel's Hidden Kingdom - Geoffrey Tudor
The Great Fulford Landscape - Shirley Tamblyn
A Memorable Place - Wendy Shaw
Devon Bath Houses in Context - Peggie Upham
Plaz Metaxu - Susi Batty

Contents of the Journal - Issue 2
Jekyll in Devon? - Carolyn Keep
Home From Home? Bothy Living in Nineteenth-Century Gardens - Clare Greener
The Coombe Royal Citrus Wall and the Outdoor Cultivation of Oranges in Devon - Helen Langley
Coombe Royal Citrus Wall Report - John Clark and Malcolm West
'A Valley of Delight': an Introduction to the Garden at Lower Coombe Royal - Susi Batty
Hannaford House: a Garden Divided - Fiona Senior
A Devon Garden and the Lady from Kew - Joy Etherington
Walter Cave, FRlBA and his Two Gardens - Judith Patrick
Mr. Gilpin's Wiggles: the Nineteenth-Century Parkland at Bicton - Kim Auston
Genteel Promenading, Fountains and Fireworks: Development of Torquay's Parks - Paula Courts
Great Expectations: Approaches to Exmoor Country Houses - Rob Wilson-North
The Lost Landscape of Tapeley Park - Rosemary Lauder
Devon Rural Archive: a New Research Resource - Abigail Gray
Resources for Garden History Research - Clare Greener & Susi Batty


Copies of the above publications can be obtained from:
Clare Greener, 
Devon Gardens Trust,
26 Linden Road,
Dawlish, Devon,  EX7 9QA 
claregreener@talktalk.net

History £3.50 including p&p (limited stock)

Journal £7.00 each including p&p

or the two together for £12.00

Wood, South Tawton: The prospect over the carriage court to the croquet lawn.  Register Grade I, designed by Thomas Mawson. (Not open to the Public)

Knowle Cottage Sidmouth. View by George Rowe 1826. The site is now offices of East Deveon District Council and public parkland.

The Revd. John Swete

Devon Gardens - An Historical Survey edited by Steven Pugsley (1994), published by Alan Sutton: Out of print

The Garden History of Devon - An illustrated guide to sources by Todd Gray (1995). Published by University of Exeter Press, Reed Hall, Streatham Drive, Exeter EX4 4QR and available from them in soft covers at £16.99  plus p&p.
E-mail: UEP@exeter.ac.uk :

Travels in Georgian Devon - The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete (1789-1800). This limited edition of 4 volumes was published by Devon Books in association with the Devon Gardens Trust and the Devon Record Office between 1997 and 2000. Some volumes are available individually at £12.50 each. Volume 2 is now out of print.
Contact Devon Books, Halsgrove House, Lower Moor Way, Tiverton, Devon EX16 6SS.
Telephone 01884 243242 for details:

The Lie of the Land - Aspects of the archaeology and history of the designed landscape in the South West edited by Robert Wilson-North (2003), published by The Mint Press.  Copies available at £13.99 Post and Packing free from www.stevensbooks.co.uk or e-mail sales@themintpress.co.uk