The Hardy Plant Index
Vol. 40 No. 2, Autumn 2019

Contents | |
From the Editor | Souren Ala |
What is a Garden? | Bob Brown |
Crack Addicts | Alex Pankhurst |
Stop Press! Reprieve for a ‘Bad’ Conservation Plant? | Jan Vaughan |
Space to Plan and Plant | Barbara Ferrari |
The Learning Curve | Val Bourne |
The Kenneth Black Bursary Scheme | Anna Peacock |
Echoes of Historic Japanese Gardens | Ana Oliveira |
Nurturenature: Growing a Healing Garden | Helena Davies |
From the Archive: Invasion by Tigers | Frances M. Birkett |
Through our French Window | Gordon James |
Some Hardy Plants Growing in Arctic Sweden | Ruth Baumbergs |
Bracken in the Garden | Martin Spray |
Chop it Down?? | Souren Ala |
Two Thugs and a Suicidal Swan | Peter Williams |
End Piece | Louise Beebe Wilder |
Letters |
Vol. 40 No. 1, Spring 2019

Vol. 39 No. 2, Autumn 2018

Contents | |
From the Editor | Pam Ratcliffe |
Adopting Orphans | Alex Pankhurst |
The Best Plants for Pots | Bob Brown |
Beth Chatto OBE VMH | |
Can the Benefits of Using Soil Microbes be Seen? | David Way |
Clematis in Mediterranean and Temperate Zones - drought, myth & facts | Mary Toomey |
Our Favourite Plants for Brightening up Summer Shade | Shade and Woodland Plants Group committee members |
‘The Hills Are Alive...’ (with perennial meadows) | Souren Ala |
Idle Thoughts in Autumn Rain | Martin Spray |
Incarceration, Liberation and Sex Change in Arisaema | Peter Williams |
The Learning Curve | Val Bourne |
Lessons from India | Richard Holman |
Looking at Plants by the Sea | Ruth Baumberg |
Planting Bulbs for Colour Next Year | Rob Cole |
A Recognised Name - at last! | Helen Mount |
Under the Apples | Tim Ingram |
Winners and Losers | Keith and Lorna Ferguson |
Letters | |
Back cover |
Vol. 39 No. 1, Spring 2018

Contents | |
From the editor | Pam Ratcliffe |
Review: "Ferns" | Neil Timm |
A Garden in East Kent | Jeremy Spon |
Founders and Descendants: 60 Years On, the People Who Made the Hardy Plant Society | Pamela Clark |
Gwladys Tonge | Jean Sambrook |
Honour of Russia | Sergey Kalyakin |
How Plants Work - Seeds and Fruits | Gail Summerfield |
The Learning Curve | Val Bourne |
A Moving Experience | Judy Harry |
Pauline Cooper | Anita Chapman |
HPS Photographic Competition 2017 | Brian Hackett |
President Perspective - Plants, People, Places | Roy Lancaster |
Pursuing Passion Flowers | Rebecca Hilgenhof |
Raising New Plants | Gerry Parker |
Spiralling Into Oblivion - Fibonacci & Plants | Derek Cooper |
A Wild Anger (About the Exploitation of Peat Resources by Gardeners) | Rosemary FitzGerald |
The HPS Horticultural Advisory Service |
Vol. 38 No. 2, Autumn 2017

Contents | |
From the editor | Pam Ratcliffe |
60th Anniversary Open Gardens celebration | |
New Ambassadors spread the word | Geoff Hodge |
Appreciations | |
Brief encounters with a few shady characters | Peter Williams |
Chelsea 2017 | Mick Dunstan |
Living with drought | Janet Sleep |
How plants work - flowers | Gail Summerfield |
The HPS Horticultural Advisory Service | |
How many ways to kill a plant? | Alex Pankhurst |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Loose and woodsy! | Walt Bubelis |
Planting in dry shade | Sue Catchpole |
A roots-up approach to understanding perennials | Noel Kingsbury |
A flower and butterfly trip to the Alpes Maritimes in southern France | Ruth Baumberg |
Gardeners in training | William Stanger |
Winter tapestry | Andrew Lawes |
Vol. 38 No. 1, Spring 2017

Contents | |
From the editor | Pam Ratcliffe |
Meet the President! | |
Members' gardens, open to celebrate! | |
Chelsea Preview | Mick Dunstan |
President's perspective - plants, people, places | Roy Lancaster |
Lessons my garden has taught me | Derry Watkins |
Pulmonarias | Margaret Stone |
Room with a view | David Jewell |
Up close and personal | Lesley Kant Cunneen |
How plants work - stems | Gail Summerfield |
Land of the llamas - north-west Argentina | Lorna and Keith Ferguson |
Hurray for seed donors! | Pauline Cooper, Seed Distribution Coordinator |
A gesture against the wild? | Martin Spray |
New knowledge, new language | David Way |
Photographic Competition 2016 | Brian Hackett |
The HPS Horticultural Advisory Service | Emma Reece |
Review: "My Life with Plants" | Judy Harry |
Review: "The Living Jigsaw" | Timothy Riggs |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Letters |
Vol. 37 No. 2, Autumn 2016

Contents | |
From the editor | |
The new Centenary Border at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | David Jewell |
A Gold-Medal park | Mick Dunstan |
From Russia with passion | Sergey Kalyakin |
Guilty as Charged | Judy Harry |
Lessons learned from a sunny little patch | Souren Ala |
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice | Janet Sleep |
How plants work part 2 - roots | Gail Summerfield |
Euphorbias in the garden - good doers in different conditions and situations | Don Witton |
The 80th anniversary of Barnhaven Primroses | Jodie Mitchell |
Heucheras - their cultivation and use | Gareth Batts |
A flower and butterfly trip to Eastern Turkey | Ruth Baumberg |
Christmas cards with a garden theme | John McCormack |
The HPS Horticultural Advisory Service | |
Comments on an open garden | Peter Williams |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Letter | |
Back Cover |
Vol. 37 No. 1, Spring 2016

Contents Page | |
President's perspective - plants, people and places | Roy Lancaster |
Jean Harris | Judy Harry |
In pursuit of new plants - the driving force behind Hillier Nurseries | Kevin Hobbes |
Hardy foliage for 'tropical effect' | Bob Brown |
A gardening life - learning from the wild | Gill Regan |
Living walls | Irene Tibbenham |
How plants work | Gail Summerfield |
Over the garden wall - part 2 | Mick Dunstan |
Getting the measure of snowdrops | Tim Ingram |
Clematis for year-round interest | Mike Millington |
Trautvetteria, a confused and littleknown genus | Keith Ferguson |
Some artistic thoughts gleaned from the gentle art of gardening | Martin Spray |
Brought to Book | Alex Pankhurst |
Photographic competition 2015 | Brian Hackett |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Letter | |
Back cover |
Vol. 36 No. 2, Autumn 2015

Contents Page | |
From the editor | Pam Ratcliffe |
The HPS Advisory Service | |
In search of the blue poppy - a botanical trip to Sikkim | Ruth Baumberg |
Is your garden buzzing? | Tim Riggs |
Eyeful or awful | Judy Harry |
Geraniums - a personal appraisal | Ursula Williams |
Showing off the Hardy Plant Society | |
A helianthus by any other name - full circle | Helen Mount |
Over the garden wall in Worcestershire | Mick Dunstan |
Patagonian plants we grow in Britain | Keith and Lorna Ferguson |
Plants that deserve a wider audience | Val Bourne |
Propagating stonecrops for creative planting | Kevin Line |
Book Review | |
Taking time to smell the roses | Heather Russell |
The seed receivers' apprentice | Sue Bosson |
2015: Year of the Sunflower | Irene Tibbenham |
Vol. 36 No. 1, Spring 2015

President's Perspective | Roy Lancaster |
George Parker | Judy Harry |
Stars, showgirls and the chorus line | Janet Sleep |
Small gardens and shade | Bob Brown |
Bountiful biennials | Derry Watkins |
Desert island plants | Val Bourne |
Photographic competition 2014 | Brian Hackett |
Rhododendrons - unloved and dangerous | Peter Williams |
My 'Dream Garden' | Heather Russell |
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Helen Mount |
Adventures with seed -the story of a novice | Pauline Cooper |
Small, but beautifully planted | Teresa Farnham |
Aconitum - the dark side | Rachel Raywood |
Downy mildew - the new killer disease of Aquilegia | Carrie Thomas |
Book review | |
Letters |
Vol. 35 No. 2, Autumn 2014

Contents | |
From the editor | Pam Ratcliffe |
The unnatural gardener | Peter Williams |
Trends, shoots and leaves | Judy Harry |
Better late than never | Duncan Skene |
Gardening on heavy clay | Keith & Lorna Ferguson |
Candy Carrot, Spignel and Matthiasella | Tim Ingram |
A guide to basic lily growing | Harris Howland |
Mad dogs and pixie cups | Martin & Rowan Spray |
Asclepias syriaca revisited | John Silk |
Social climbing | Lesley Kant Cunneen |
Christmas trees for high summer | Kevin Line |
Guilt in the garden | Gill Heavens |
The plateau of orchids | Gordon James |
Whose garden is it anyway? | Alex Pankhurst |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Vol. 35 No. 1, Spring 2014

Contents | |
Editorial | |
President's perspective | Roy Lancaster |
Better borders | Bob Brown |
Book review (Peonies by Gail Harland) | Billy Carruthers |
David Barker | Sally-Ann Turner |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Looking forwards by looking back! | Heather Booker |
Photographic competition 2013 | Trevor Walton |
Public space | Kelly Baldry |
Saved by microclimates | Andrew Lawes |
Serendipity in Peonies | John Hudson & Judy Templar |
Starting (almost) from scratch | Helen Mount |
Success with Tom Mitchell's seed | Barry McWilliam |
The Beth Chatto Gardens | Sally-Ann Turner |
Vol. 34 No. 1, Spring 2013
President's perspective | Roy Lancaster |
Self-seeders, love them or hate them? | Gill Regan |
Hardiness - an update | Bob Brown |
Thief in the night | Judy Harry |
Rented space | Kelly Baldry |
How we made our garden | Peter Hart |
Dolomitic delights | Peter Regan |
Malta - scrubland or botanical paradise | Penelope S Hellyer |
Incidents without colour | Martin Spray |
HPS Photography Competition 2012 | Trevor Walton |
The lure of the new | Derry Watkins |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Vol. 33 No. 2, Autumn 2012
A tale of two gardens | Gill Heavens |
Full Frontal | Fern Alder |
World without torture | Dori Miller |
Travelling for plants in the Pacific Northwest | Keith Ferguson and Lorna Ferguson |
The Mojave: a desert for flower and film lovers | James Fitzmaurice with Gwyn and David Sivertsen |
The exploitation of hardy plants in Nepal | Kamal Adhikari |
Flowers fit for a Dalai Lama | Chris Chadwell |
The fruits of our labours | Janet Sleep |
In support of bees | Helen Mount |
Lillies through the season in a Cotswold garden | Patrick Bucknell |
Plantsman in the 21st Century | Tim Ingram |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Letters | Various correspondents |
Our Scottish weekend | Various members |
Vol. 33 No. 1, Spring 2012
Presidents perspective | Roy Lancaster |
In the pink with orange | Lesley Kant Cunneen |
The show must go on | Emma Seniuk |
There's more to hydrangeas that I'd thought | Shelagh Newman |
Hardy border chrysanthemums | Barrie Machin |
A high-wire Act | Judy Harry |
St Andrews Botanic Garden | Bob Mitchell |
From Sussex to Como | Penelope S Hellyer |
From Russia with...flowers | Jeffrey Bryce |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Letters | Various correspondents |
A Gardener's Guide to Native Plants of Britain and Ireland | Twink Addison |
It seems to me... | Paul McBride |
Rooting cuttings by hydroponics | Patrick Bucknell |
Vol. 32 No. 2, Autumn 2011
Travelling in Argentina and Chile | Keith Ferguson and Lorna Ferguson |
Gardening is easy | Gill Heavens |
Fine supporting case | Alex Pankhurst |
Growing Ferns from Spores | Sue Dockerill |
Family relations | Tim Ingram |
A formal garden | Anthony Ewin |
Gardening by the moon | Liz Ware & Fern Alder |
Some lessons learned | Roger Stuckley et. al. |
French connection | Margaret Brown |
Curiouser and curiouser | Heather Russell |
Throw open the gates | Steve Bustin |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Letters | Various correspondents |
Roscoea Raspberry Ripple | Brian Mathew VMH |
In praise of Descampsia flexuosa | Souren Ala |
It seems to me | Anthea Sokell |
Vol. 32 No. 1, Spring 2011
President's perspective | Roy Lancaster |
Scottish Highland meadow | Tony Schilling |
Pleasant Surprises | Janet Sleep |
Some good new plants | Bob Brown |
New series double auriculas | Graeme P Butler |
In support of salvias | Steve Hickman |
Orchids to grow in your garden | Jeff Hutchings |
Gladiolus, Kniphofia etc. | Colin Moat |
Telling tales | Judy Harry |
Gardener's bookshelf | Tim Ingram |
Flowers fit for a Dalai Lama | Chris Chadwell |
The Learning Curve | Val Bourne |
Letters | Various correspondents |
Book Reviews | Janet Beakes and Sue Dockerill |
It seems to me... | Joan Cooper |
Vol. 31 No. 2, Autumn 2010
In the front line | Judy Harry |
Gathering gardener's knowledge | Noel Kingsbury |
Looking back, and forwards | Gwladys Tonge |
Dreaming of moccasins and slippers | Gill Regan |
Try something different from down under | Jeremy Spon |
Megaherbs | Martin Wilkie |
French connection | Margaret Brown |
Growing old with my garden | Jean Gommersall |
Two gardens for plantlovers | Jill Whitehead |
Gardening from seed - a personal story | Barbara Matthewman |
Rare and safe | Ruth Sands |
The learning curve | Val Bourne |
Letters | Various correspondents |
Book review | Tony Ewin |
It seems to me... | Alex Pankhurst |
Vol. 31 No. 1, Spring 2010
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 |
Vol. 30 No. 2, Autumn 2009
Plumping up the borders | Derry Watkins |
A cuttings garden | Teresa Farnham |
No Trouble | Alex Pankhurst |
The old ones are the best | Janet Sleep |
Vertical ground cover | Anita Chapman |
Na Liosan | 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 |