Hardy Plant Society

Articles to read

Many of these articles have been published in the Hardy Plant Society's Journal, which is sent free to HPS members, or in the magazine Cornucopia, which is available to members for a small annual charge. Corucopia is a digest of the best articles from the journals and newsletters of our many excellent local groups.

Featured article Erodiums Judy Coulson Erodiums are very free flowering, starting in May through to November. They do need to be dead headed regularly ... I have counted over 200 spent flowers from one plant. More...

The following are available as web pages:

Erodiums	Judy Coulson
A Botanical Garden with a difference	Don Whitton
Compo gets the point	Compo Steep
A tale of Trilliums	John Rogers
Campanula patula	Irene Feesey
Compulsive Gardening Disorder	Alex Pankhurst
A day of seed sowing at Culpeper Gardens, Islington	Vivienne McGhee
Email safety	HPS Webmaster
Love at firstsight	Author unknown
Using commercial nurseries	Andrew Ward
Ranunculaceae plants used at Chelsea 2009	Sue Ward
E.K. Balls in our garden	Jennifer Harmer and Sue Ward
Heucheras in our garden	Jennifer Harmer and Sue Ward
Iris Unguicularis in our garden	Jennifer Harmer and Sue Ward
Pacific Coast Irises in our garden	Jennifer Harmer and Sue Ward
Roscoea (Zingiberacae family) in our garden	Jennifer Harmer and Sue Ward
Once bitten...	Chris James
Spring cleaning the borders	Tricia Fraser
Too much choice	Joe Sime
Daphnes	Hugh Blundstone
If at first...	Rob Senior
An exotic Oasis	Mary Argent
Permaculture garden	Narinder Sohal
Trees and shrubs from seed	Jeremy Spon
The writing on the wall	Tony Bays
Plants from the edge of the world	Valerie Livesey
Garden visiting in Northern France	Mike Chapman
How to have a bulbous bonanza	Heather Russell
Dahlias come in from the cold	Rosemary Mitchell
Euphorbia x Pasteurii	Don Witton
Pacific Coast Irises	Brita Carson
Rosa Canina	Tim Brown
also, but as pdf files (which open in new window)
Phormium phun	Paul Ingleton
A cuttings garden	Teresa Farnham
On the road in search of lilies	Alan Mitchell
Plumping up the borders	Derry Watkins
A cuttings garden	Teresa Fanham
No Trouble	Alex Pankhurst
The old ones are the best	Janet Sleep
Vertical ground cover	Anita Chapman
An Lios	Stuart Oakley
A tale of two gardens - Lincoln to Lauzerte	Margaret Brown
On the road in search of lilies	Alan Mirchell
Growing half-hardy plants - a post-February 2009 update	Rob Senior
Mukdenia	Aileen Stocks
Chelsea 2009	Sandra Hartley
Learning curve Autumn 2009	Val Bourne
Letters Autumn 2009	Various correspondents
Insects and Gardens	Book review
Flower Hunters	Book review
Geum	Book review
Garden Pests	Chloris
Plants, people and places	Roy Lancaster
The pleasure and pain of an open garden	Gill Heavens
Aster novi-belgii	Paul Picton
Organic gardening - is it for you?	Heather Booker, Corrine Layton, Chris Strachan, Bob Brown & Sue Lander
North American woodlanders	Keith Ferguson
A case study for ecological plantings in public gardens	Chris Flynn
Phormium phun	Paul Ingleton
Plant collector or garden designer?	Adrian Bloom
A little ridiculous	Martin Spray
Learning curve Spring 2010	Val Bourne
Letters Spring 2010	Various correspondents
Black frosts and green shoots	Chloris