The Trust publishes a Journal approximately every two years. The articles by Devon and other researchers are often the only published research on a particular landscape or subject. The Journal is supplied free to members of the Trust. Articles can be viewed or downloaded by clicking on the article title. Note that currently PDFs are not available for articles in Issue 3.
Prospective authors should contact the Editor [email protected] to discuss potential articles and timescales for publication and should consult the Trust's Guidance Notes for Authors for details of the submission process.
Copies of the Journal are priced £7.00 each including p&p and can be obtained by contacting us [email protected] or writing to:
Devon Gardens Trust, Exeter Community Centre, 17 St David's Hill, Exeter, EX4 3RG
Journal 7
September 2023
Jadoo Fibre: The Magic Compost - Carolyn Keep
Cowley Place - Marcelle Hoff
Miss Edna Gunnell and the Women Gardener Movement - Penny Bayer
Sweet Violets of Every Hue - Violet Growing in Devon - Clare Greener
Peamore, a Picturesque Pleasance - Dianne Long
Journal 6
March 2020
Chairman's Introduction
'The Finest Cradle for Old Age': Thomas Jones' Langstone Cliff Cottage, Devon - Diane James
Influences on Oliver Hill as a Garden Designer - Carolyn Keep
Gardens by Oliver Hill in North Devon - Carolyn Keep
The Edinburgh Tree - Clare Greener
The creation of a burial ground for Protestant Dissenters in Georgian Exeter - Ian M. Varndell
‘Those Arts which have given celebrity to the name of Repton’ The work of George Stanley Repton in Devon - Rosemary Yallop
Development of the Historic Landscape of Sidbury Manor - John Clark, Barbie Moul and Dianne Long
Book Reviews
Journal 5
August 2015
Dunsland: An Anniversary Post-Mortem - Hugh Meller
Born to be a Gardner: Sydney James Baker (1874-1950) - April Marjoram
Clarification and Revision of Escot's Seventeenth-century History - Barbie Moul
The Rush to the Sea - Anne Kaile
From Gentlewoman Amateur to Garden Writer - Carolyn Keep
The Landscape Gardens of a Nineteenth Century Devon Lunatic Asylum - Judy Walton and Helen Whitmore
Fremington Walled Garden - Ian Smith
Using County Directories as a Resource for Garden History - Clare Greener
Journal 4
June 2016
Stover Park - an update - Stuart Drabble
Rousdon, A Victorian Garden - Nicky Campbell
Sand: A Tudor Tale - Barbie Moul
Grant Aided Landscapes in Devon - Kim Auston
Mr Slade and the Edwardian Gardens at Poltimore House - Barbara Adams, Anne Jervoise, Julia Neville and Carole Shaw
Victorian and Edwardian Glasshouses: History and Conservation - Robert Jameson
Oldway - Versailles on the English Riviera - Judy Walton
A Magician with Tender Plants - Carolyn Keep
Book Reviews:
Nicky Campbell, To Buy a Whole Parish: Rousdon and the Peekes
Hugh Meller, The Country Houses of Devon
Heidi Howcroft, First Ladies of Gardening
Carolyn Keep, F W Meyer, a Landscape Gardener in Devon
Journal 3
July 2013
It is not currently possible to provide PDFs for view or download
Jekyll Borders for Devon - Carolyn Keep
Garden Women in Devon - Clare Greener
Mr Seale's Woods: The Eighteenth Century Landscape of Mount Boone, Dartmouth - Josephine Brown
A Stroll into the Eighteenth Century Around a Ladies Walk - Helen Whitmore
Interpreting Historic Maps - Brian Carpenter and Irene Andrews
Retrogressive Map Analysis - Adam Wainwright
Pontey's: An Introduction to a Plymouth Nursery - Clare Greener
The Beginning and the End of Lucombe, Pince & Co. - Trevor Wood
The Victorian Glasshouse and the work of Messenger and Co. in Devon - Caroline Garrett
Grounds for Learning - Joy Williams
Educating Schoolchildren at RHS Garden Rosemoor - Sarah Chesters
Book Reviews
Journal 2
September 2009
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
Journal 1
September 2008
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
Reviews, Book Notes and Cuttings