User:Vernon39/Douglas Ellory Pett

Douglas Ellory Pett (1924 - 2005) was a garden historian and an Anglican priest.

D.E. Pett was vicar of Gulval, near Penzance, Cornwall from 1966 to 1966, where he had the care of a large garden. During the 1980s, he organised a survey of Cornish gardens for the Cornwall Garden Trust, which was published in 1988 as The parks and gardens of Cornwall. .

In 2004, he was awarded the Charles Thomas prize by the Royal Institution of Cornwall for his work on horticulture in the Isles of Scilly.

He died, shortly after completing his last book, Creative gardeners, in 2005.

Roger Trenoweth, the editor of The Cornish Garden said "Through his many books and articles, Douglas Pett made a major contribution to the field of Garden History in Cornwall and beyond"

Publications

 * The parks and gardens of Cornwall: a companion guide, arranged to correspond with Ordnance Survey Landranger maps;  Penzance, Alison Hodge, (1998) ISBN 0-906720-27-3
 * From a Cornish Bishop's garden; Penzance, Alison Hodge, (2001)
 * The Cornwall gardens guide; Penzance, Alison Hodge, (2003)
 * Creative gardeners; Penzance, Alison Hodge, (2005) ISBN 0-906720-41-9