HPS Journal: “The Hardy Plant”
Many colour photos, authoritative articles on hardy perennials, member content
The HPS Journal is published twice a year and sent free to members. It is fully illustrated and published in colour. Here are articles at least six months old from recent editions. You can find articles from 1957-1968 in the horticultural library.
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 |