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First published in 1988, this book comprises many years of research and a personal involvement with old roses at the Cape, as well as the history associated with them.
Her experience was gained through much traveling locally and abroad, and with doing the research, landscape designs and plant lists for most of the gardens for Gawie's over 200 restoration projects.
Gawie and Gwen would spend many a weekend traveling to remote gardens on their Moto-Gutzi and bring back rose samples in a cooler box mounted on the back to photograph for the book.
Gwen ultimately became a world authority on heritage roses at the Cape.
Gwendoline's Gawie, written by Gwen Fagan, relates to seventy years of her life with Gabriel Fagan, from their young student days to their married family and professional lives.
A wonderfully comprehensive and colourful life story of two inseparable and also remarkable people and their contribution to the heritage and architecture of South Africa.
BRAKDAK is a collection of old photographs with brief notes on flat-roofed vernacular architecture in the Karoo. They portray buildings and unspoilt village scenes, many of which have since disappeared.
Gabriel Fagan used to pilot his own aeroplane in the fifties and early sixties while he was working as resident architect for Volkskas bank and had to do a lot of travelling to small towns all over South Africa.
He fell in love with the indigenous architecture of the Karoo and started taking photographs of the farms buildings and small towns, many of them as aerial views.
These old photographs were recently restored and published as a unique and invaluable record of vernacular Karoo structures from the 1950's.
Twenty Cape Houses comprises a varied selection of Gawie Fagan's houses in the Cape.
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