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HORTUS- 62:(Summer 2002)

Diana Ross's Snippets; Peter Chappell: Hydrangea serrata ‘Tiara’, Aesculus californica and Clethra alnifolia ‘Pink Spire’ and ‘Hummingbird’; Sibylle Kreutzberger: ‘Making Our First Garden: Summer’; Roger Turner: ‘Backgrounds and The Flower Border’; Tim Longville: the Year-Round Garden at Duntrune Castle, Argyll; Michael Cunningham: ‘Gardening Away from Home’; Peter Dale: ‘The Lure of Lost Gardens’; Betty Kershaw: ‘Proof of a Pudding’; Anne Willis: ‘A French Walled Garden in England’; John Sendy: Gardens and Russian Writers; On My Bedside Table, by Fenja Gunn; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Thomas Fischer, Tim Longville and Helene Pizzi.

HORTUS- 63 (Autumn 2002):

Noel Kingsbury's Snippets; Alison Huntley: Medlars; Diana Ross: a conversation with Lady Salisbury in her garden at Hatfield House; Karen Platt: Sheffield Botanical Gardens; Anne Powell: Rosamund Willoughby – fifty years of gardening across the world; Ian Collins: John Morley, painter-plantsman; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: Gardens of Lithuania; Pamela Schwerdt: 'Making our First Garden – Autumn'; Paula Deitz: on Chelsea gardens after the Show; Martin Wood: war graves and Lutyens; Catharine Nicholson: Plants in Gothic Architecture; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Michael White and Judith Tankard

HORTUS- 64 (Winter 2002):

Diana Ross's Snippets; Alex Dufort: Ridler's Garden, in Swansea; Sarah Scarlett: temptations and restraint in a new garden; Paul Williams: Ribes laurifolium; Pamela Schwerdt: 'Making our First Garden – Winter'; John Akeroyd: 'Foreign fragments of an older England'; Michael Cunningham: pokeweed – Phytolacca americana; Tim Longville: the gardens of Ladykirk, in the Scottish Borders; Allan McNeish: Peter Valder – Gardener; Ian Griffiths: the Penang Botanic Gardens; Peter J.James: the mathematics of garden compost; On My Bedside Table, by William Grant; Katherine Swift: the gazebo at 27 Broad Street, Ludlow; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by John Akeroyd, Tim Longville and Diana Ross.

HORTUS- 65 (Spring 2003)

Tim Longville’s Snippets; Alison Rix: Some Devon Gardens; Noel Kingsbury: Of Cornish Gardens; John Carter: Plant Hunting in Devon and Cornwall; Tom Petherick: ‘Undisturbed and Understood: the Garden at Tregrehan, Cornwall’; John Akeroyd: ‘Cornwall’s Offshore Paradise Garden: the Abbey Gardens of Tresco, Isles of Scilly; Mirabel Osler: ‘Something Else’; Diana Ross: meets Beth Chatto and pays tribute to her in her eightieth year; Michael Cunningham: ‘Scylla and Charybdis’: the gardening relationship between Katharine White and Elizabeth Lawrence; On My Bedside Table by Trevor Nottle; book reviews by Tim Longville, Peter Parker, Katie Campbell and Katherine Swift; Judith Tankard’s American Book Notes; Index to issues 61-64.

HORTUS- 66 (Summer 2003)

Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Catharine Nicholson: ‘Roses in Architecture’; Diana Ross meets Thomas Pakenham; Antonia Johnson: ‘Grayish on Clayish’ (grey-leafed plants for the garden); Rosemary Lindsay on the Gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC; Katie Campbell on the Gothic Imagination of Sir George Sitwell at Renishaw in Derbyshire; Barrie Carson Turner: ‘A Septuagenarian Tale’ (on the long life of a short-lived perennial); Lorraine Harrison: ‘Patriotism, Victory and Vegetables’ a recollection of the ‘dig for victory’ campaigns; Charles Elliott: ‘Englebert Kaempfer and the Vegetable Lamb’; Books On My Bedside Table by John Akeroyd; Graham Stuart Thomas: ‘The Weather’ (the last piece he wrote for Hortus before his death in April); personal memories of Graham Stuart Thomas by Barry Ambrose, Beth Chatto, Thomas Cooper, Noel Kingsbury, Liz Robinson, John Sales, Tony Schilling, Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck; Tim Longville: a personal tribute to Derek Toms, 1943-2003; Book Reviews by Tim Longville.

HORTUS- 67 (Autumn 2003)

Winners of the Times & Hortus Garden Writing Competition 2003; Tim Longville’s Snippets; Noel Kingsbury: ‘Hail the Parvenus’ an exploration of ‘new’ plants; Diana Ross meets plantsman and explorer Roy Lancaster; Alex Dufort: ‘Kilfane - An Irish Retreat’; Ingrid Verdegem: ‘To a Man Who Dislikes Orange’, an essay on autumn; John Hall: ‘The Garden of Eden in Venice’, his personal exploration of Frederick Eden’s Venetian garden; Tim Longville: ‘A Glimpse of Something More’, a re-discovery of writer Dorothea Eastwood; Charles Elliott’s essay: ‘The Age of Guano’; Books On My Bedside Table by David Wheeler; reviews of collected garden writing by Ursual Buchan and Elisabeth Sheldon, and of a new book on the eighteenth-century drawings made at Dapuri, the Bombay Governor’s residence in India. Erica Hunningher reviews ‘The Gardener’s Labyrinth” a book and exhibition of photographs of Britain’s leading garden figures.

HORTUS- 68 (Winter 2003)

Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Elspeth Thompson: ‘Lighting the Touch-paper’(indoor spring-flowering bulbs); Antonia Johnson: ‘The Whiff of Evergreens’ (fragrant evergreens for the winter garden); Deborah Kellaway: ‘Winter Pictures’; Ursula Buchan: ‘The Winter-Flowering Algerian: Iris unguicularis’; Celia Fisher: ‘Fair Maids of February: A Celebration of Snowdrops’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘William Morris and his Gardens at Red House and Kelmscott Manor’; Diana Ross: ‘A Walk on the Wild Side with Geoffrey Dutton’ (an interview with the Scottish poet and gardener); Charles Elliott: ‘Losers’ (mishaps in the lives of plant hunters); Serena Moore: ‘In the Oxford Botanic Garden’, a short story; Betty Kershaw: ‘Gardens in Fiction: To The Mulberry (Henry James, 1843-1916)’; Poem: ‘The Gardener’ by Anna Wigley; book reviews by Katharine Swift (on Sir Roy Strong’s garden), John Akeroyd (on wild flowers) and Mark Lutyens (on a history of the Veitch family of nurserymen); short reviews by David Wheeler and Judith Tankard’s American Book Notes.

HORTUS- 69 (Spring 2004)

‘Dust to Dust’: a poem by Caroline Harbouri ; ‘Plantsman’s Plants’-a selection of plants for the spring garden by Deborah Kellaway, Mirabel Osler, Mark Lutyens, John Akeroyd, Carol Klein and David Wheeler. Martyn Rix: ‘China Treasure (modern plant-hunting in China); Graham Gough: ‘The best teacher a gardener can have’ (the making of a modern garden in the Sussex countryside); Betty Kershaw: ‘Of Purest Green’; Graham Cousins: ‘Green Leaves, Bright Flowers’; Katie Campbell: ‘The Tortoise in Garden Sculpture: Meaning and Symbolism in the Modern World’; Charles Elliott: ‘The Acid Test’; Constance Casey: ‘Public Gardens – an ‘Alternative View’; Diana Ross: ‘To garden is to seize the day: an interview with novelist Penelope Lively’; ‘What’s On – A miscellany of forthcoming events for gardeners’; book reviews: ‘Little Sparta’, ‘The Garden of Cosmic Speculation’, ‘From the Country’, ‘An Illustrated Guide to Maples’. Index to issues 65-68.

HORTUS- 70 (Summer 2004)

‘In Praise of Pomegranates’: a poem by Glencairn Balfour-Paul; Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Carol Klein: ‘Summer Stunners’, a nurserywoman’s selction of best summer plants; William Grant: ‘Prickles and Thorns’, what’s the right word in rose-growing circles?; Christine Reid: ‘Living Out a Fantasy: Marylynn Abbott at West Green House’; Helene Pizzi: ‘Gardening in Hot Sand: A Mediterranean Miracle’; Diana Ross: ‘The Ring Cycle’, a cautionary tale about the dangers of lawn mowing); Catharine Nicholson: ‘The Fruit and Flowers of Grinling Gibbons’; Peter James: ‘Baneful Things Revisted’ (the world on the monkey puzzle tree); Jo Manby: ‘India’s Garden Pantheons’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Deserving of Italics’; Charles Elliott: ‘On Growing Potatoes’; Marta McDowell: ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horticulture’; book reviews: ‘Gardening on the Edge’, ‘The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers’, ‘A Passion for Plants’, ‘Poems For Gardeners’; plus Judith Tankard’s American Book Notes.

HORTUS- 71 (Autumn 2004)

‘The Green Man’: poem by Cecilia Chance; Tim Longville’s Snippets; Carol Klein: ‘Autumn . . . and Beyond’; John Akeroyd: ‘Promoting Autumn’s Special Floral Garland’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Community Cuttings’; Ron Mulroy: ‘Death of a Big Tree’; Helena Attlee: ‘Burnished by the Sun of a Hundred New Summers’ (a centenary tribute to Edith Wharton’s book, Italian Villas and Their Gardens); Peter James: ‘Lines on Leaves’, the science of leaf colour; Kristina Taylor: ‘From my 2004 Diary’, plant-hunting in south-west China; Janice Sharkey: ‘A Nocturnal Garden’; Diana Ross meets Anne Scott-James; Tim Longville: ‘The Two Sides of Eden’, biographical exploration of the life of Eden Phillpotts; Charles Elliott: ‘Blue Fruit and Chimeras’; book reviews by Judith B Tankard (on ‘Lost Gardens of England’, John Akeroyd on ‘Both’, Douglas Crase’s biography of Rupert Barneby and his partner Dwight Ripley.

Hortus- 72 (Winter 2004)

‘Creagh Burial Ground, Baltimore, West Cork’ (poem by Peter Dale); ‘For Gardening . . . and Civilisation’ (books of the year selected by eight eminent garden writers); Carol Klein: ‘On a Quiet Winter’s Day’ (a personal choice of winter-flowering plants); Elisabeth Sheldon: ‘Composing a Garden’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘A Feast of Delights’ (the gardens of the Prieuré Notre Dame D’Orsan, France); Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Polly Hill Arboretum’ (an exploration of an American arboretum); Diana Ross: ‘Early Days’ (a visit to James and Lady Tania Compton’s garden-in-the-making in Wiltshire); Anne Powell: ‘Our Garden Then . . . and Now’; Tim Longville: ‘The Nurseryman’s Tale’ (an interview with octogenarian nurseryman George Stephenson; Ralph Tanner: ‘An Amateur Obsession’ (plant collecting in East Africa); Michael Cunningham: ‘The Quotable Rock-Gardener’; Lorraine Harrison: ‘Something to Brighten all our Gardens’ (Shakers, faith and gardening in nineteenth-century America); Brent Elliott: Gardens in Fiction, ‘Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past’, Part One: ‘Gardens’ (Part Two: ‘Flowers’ appears in Hortus 73); book reviews: Robin Whalley on ‘Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement’ by Judith Tankard; Michael Cunningham on ‘No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence’ by Emily Herring Wilson; and Tim Longville on ‘A Passion For Plants’ by Suzanne Treseder.

Hortus- 73 (Spring 2005)

‘Our Body Understands What our Mind Cannot Grasp’: poem by Kay Wisniewski; Antonia Johnson: ‘In Memoriam: Piers Simon (1971-2004)’; Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Carol Klein: ‘Beauty from Below’; Tim Longville: ‘Muncaster of the Magic, Patrick of the Plants’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Nymans in Spring’; Alberto Grossi: ‘A Whiff of the South’ (a visit to André Heller’s botanic garden near Lake Garda); Katie Campbell: ‘The Renaissance Revisited’ (Cecil Pinsent and the Anglo-Florentine garden); Michael Cunningham: ‘Do you have Sweet Rocket?’; Rob Cassy: ‘Green Man’ (interview with artist David More who devoted more than a decade to illustrating Cassell’s monumental Trees of Britain and Northern Europe); Charles Elliott: ‘Sir Walter’s Trees’; Brent Elliott: ‘Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, Part Two: Flowers’; Penelope Hobhouse: ‘On My Bedside Table’; book reviews: Deborah Kellaway on ‘Nature Cure’ by Richard Mabey; John Akeroyd on ‘La Mortola: In the Footsteps of Thomas Hanbury’ by Alasdair Moore; Charles Elliott on ‘The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms’ by Amy Stewart; Shorter reviews of: ‘Agapanthus For Gardeners’ by Hanneke van Dijk; ‘Hawthorns and Medlars’ by James B. Phipps; ‘Variegated Trees & Shrubs: The Ilustrated Encyclopedia’ by Ronald Houtman; ‘Encyclopedia of Hydrangeas’ by C. J. van Gelderen and D.M. van Gelderen; ‘Garden Plants of Japan’ by Ran Levy-Yamamori and Gerard Taaffe; ‘Tree Ferns’ by Mark F. Large and John E. Braggins; ‘Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts’ by Celia Fisher; ‘The Elder in History, Myth and Cookery’ by Ria Loohouizen; ‘Tree Houses of the World’ by Pete Nelson; ‘Fruit: An Illustrated History’ by Peter Blackburne-Maze and ‘Glendurgan: A Personal Memoir of a Garden in Cornewall’ by Charles Fox; plus Judith Tankard’s American Book Notes. Index to issues 69-72.

Hortus- 74 (Summer 2005)

Tim Longville’s Snippets; Mark Lutyens: ‘Wild Gardening; Noel Kingsbury: ‘The Wild and the Gardened’; Carolle Doyle: ‘Trebah: The Ethos of the Place’; Tim Longville: ‘The Collector’ Clive Collins and his Lake District garden); Diana Ross: ‘Time to Reflect’ (an interview with Hugh Johnson at home in Essex); Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Maison Folio: Scents and Spices of La Réunion’; William Grant: ‘Among the Eucalypts’; Judith B. Tankard: ‘Beyond the Garden. The Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain and Elsewhere’; Betty Kershaw: ‘Figs, Pigs and a Writing Desk’ (The Enigma of Ford Madox Ford); Michael Cunningham: ‘Plant Thieves’; Lorraine Harrison: ‘Situations Vacant’ (a history of garden satff advertising); Charles Elliott: ‘Weedlings and Seedlings’; book reviews: Ursula Buchan on ‘Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World’ by Jane Brown, and Tim Longville on ‘The Curious Gardener’ by Jürgen Dahl.

Hortus- 75 (Autumn 2005)

Tim Longville’s Snippets; Diana Ross interviews KMantraps and Polypodiums’, Ralph Cusack’s passion for gardening among a life of chaos; Francesca Fraser Darling: ‘Diary of a Garden History Student’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Tree, Grow Old with Me; Flower, Brighten the Hour’; Charles Elliott: ‘Pierre Poivre and the Spice Tree’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘On My Bedside Table’; book reviews: Rosemary Lindsay on ‘The Elemental Prairie: Sixty Tallgrass Plants’ by George Olson and John Madson; Bruce Wannell on ‘Gardens of Persia’ by Penelope Hobhouse; Judith B. Tankard on ‘English Gardens in the Twentieth Century from the Archives of Country Life’ by Tim Richardson; Colin Martin on ‘The Family Beds’ by Alison Turnbull. im Wilkie, landscape architect; Tricia Moody: ‘A Cotswold Gardener in Chile’; John Akeroyd: ‘Wielding my New Steel Fingernail’; Tim Longville:

Hortus- 76 (Winter 2005)

Tim Longville’s Snippets; Noel Kingsbury: ‘After the Deluge: Hurricane Katrina and her Aftermath’; Ambra Edwards: ‘On Meeting Ian Hamilton Finlay’; John Akeroyd: ‘A Fragment of Italy on an Atlantic Shore: Ilnacullin’; Carolle Doyle: ‘Just Like Home: The Japanese Garden at Tatton Park’; Mirabel Osler: ‘Borrowed Landscape: Observations From a Town Garden’; Diana Ross interviews Elizabeth Jane Howard; Katie Campbell: ‘Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement: The Gardens of Luis Barragán’; Betty Kershaw: ‘The Queen of Spades: Catherine the Great and her Passion for Gardening’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Lob’s Wood: Carl Krippendorf and Elizabeth Lawrence, Part One’; Charles Elliott: ‘Commerson’s Secret’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Unlikely Aromatherapy’; Rob Cassy interviews Tom Turner about his book ‘Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC to 2000 AD’; book reviews: Glencairn Balfour Paul on ‘The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants’ by Anna Pavord; Katie Campbell on ‘On Foreign Soil: American Gardeners Abroad’ by May Brawley Hill.

Hortus- 77 (Spring 2006)

Christopher Lloyd remembered by Beth Chatto, Tom Cooper, Graham Cough, Erica Hunningher, Andrew Lawson, Pip Morrison, Tim Richardson, Liz Robinson, Tony Schilling, and Wayne Winterrowd; Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Richly stocked and, to some eyes, eccentric’ – the Garden at Dowcra’s Manor; Alex Dufort: ‘Trevarno– the National Museum of Gardening’; Diana Ross interviews Richard Mabey; Tim Longville: ‘A Life of Popillaceous Blush’ (the life of John Coakley Lettsom); Michael Cunningham: ‘Lob’s Wood: Carl Krippendorf and Elizabeth Lawrence, Part Two’; Charles Elliott: ‘The Shrinking Violet’; Letter to the Editor from Mirabel Osler; book reviews: Tim Longville on ‘Golden Harvest: The Story of Daffodil Growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly’ by Andrew Tompsett; Colin Martin on ‘Gardenesque – A Celebration of Australian Gardening’ by Richard Aitken. Index to issues 73-76.

Hortus- 78 (Summer 2006)

Tim Longville’s Snippets; William Grant: ‘The Inside Story: Surprises in the Rose-growing World’; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Annes Grove; Ralph Tanner: ‘Gardening and Cemeteries’; Peter James: ‘Foliaphilia is Incurable’ (a scientist meets an architectural plant); Tony Venison: ‘Art and Irises: ‘Cedric Morris at Benton End’; Diana Ross interviews Linda Phillips and David Perkins of Roots & Shoots; Charles Elliott: ‘Getting it Wrong with Sir Francis Bacon’; Peter Parker: ‘A Horticultural Ramble in the London Library’. Book reviews: Katie Campbell on books: ‘Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style’ by Martin Wood and ‘Gardens in Perspective’ by Jerry Harpur; Rob Cassy on ‘How to Create a Jardin Paysan’ by Louise Ranck; Trevor Nottle on ‘Set for a King: 200 Years of Gardening at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton’ by Mike Jones; Elspeth Thompson on ‘The Essence of the Garden’ by Hannah Willetts and ‘England in Particular’ by Sue Clifford and Angela King; Judith Tankard on ‘The Unknown Gertrude Jekyll’ selected and edited by Martin Wood; John Akeroyd on ‘Ornamental Plants from Russia and Adjacent States of the Former Soviet Union’ by Tatiana Shulkina and ‘Flowers of Crete’ by John Fielding and Nicholas Turland; Christine Skelmersdale on ‘Tulips: Species and Hybrids for the Gardener’ by Richard Wilford; Alex Dufort on ‘The Not So Little Book of Dung’ by Caroline Holmes; Patricia Cleveland-Peck on ‘A Philosophy of Gardens’ by David E Cooper; Katherine Swift on ‘Miscelanea Structura Curiosa’ by Samuel Chearnley.

Hortus- 79 (Autumn 2006)

Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Butterstream’; Carolle Doyle: ‘Into Africa’ (Tatton Park’s educational work in Kenya; Diana Ross interviews Christian Lamb, self-confessed ‘plantaholic’; Anne Powell: ‘Miss Dorothy Higgins – Willing to do Anything’ (from the First World War diaries of a Volutary Aid Detachment and Red Cross nurse, who made a garden); Tim Longville: ‘Quien Sabe? The Life and Work of Donald Curloss Peattie’; Caradoc Doy: ‘The Veitch Years Reviewed’; Charles Elliott: ‘The Maize Maze’; Book Reviews: Katie Campbell on ‘The Oxford Companion to the Garden’, edited by Patrick Taylor; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag (reviews of ‘The Gardens at Hatfield’ by Sue Snell, ‘Gardens of The National Trust for Scotland’ by Francesca Greenoak, ‘The Garden at Levens’ by Chris Crowder, ‘Ceanothus’ by David Fross and Dieter Wilken, ‘Daphnes’ by Robin White, ‘Alpine Plants of Europe’ by Jim Jermyn, ‘Heucheras and Heucherellas’ by Dan Heims and Grahame Ware, ‘Dogwoods’ by Paul Cappiello and Don Shadow, ‘Crocosmia nd Chasmanthe’ by Peter Goldblatt, John Manning and Gary Dunlop, ‘More Papers from the Potting Shed’ by Charles Elliott, and Food for Thought: A Culinary Tour of the English Garden’ by Simon Courtauld. Anne Jones blows the dust off ‘The Virgin’s Bower: Clematis – Climbing Kinds and Their Culture at Gravetye Manor’ (1912) by Willliam Robinson.

Hortus- 80 (Winter 2006)

Tim Longville’s Snippets; John Akeroyd: ‘Warming Winter’s Dark Days’; Diana Ross interviews Dan Pearson; Katie Campbell: ‘The Enigma of the Villa di Bellosguardo’; Celia Fisher: ‘A Work to Wonder At: The Creation of Stowe as a Landscape Garden’; Mark Lutyens: ‘Some Thoughts on London Trees’; Michael Cunningham: ‘On Cutting Down Trees’; Peter Parker: ‘Farewell the Allotments’; Book Reviews: Judith Tankard on ‘Italian Gardens: A Cultural History’ by Helena Attlee; Charles Elliott on ‘My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile’ by Jane Brown; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag (reviews of ‘The English Garden’ by Ursula Buchan, ‘Icons of Twentieth-Century Landscape Design’ by Katie Campbell, ‘Henry Shaw’s Victorian Landscapes’ by Carol Grove, ‘Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens’ by Tomasz Anisko, ‘Late Summer Flowers’ by Marina Christopher, and ‘Seedheads in the Garden’ by Noel Kingsbury; Rosemary Lindsay blows the dust off ‘The Small Garden’ by C. E. Lucas Phillips; Obituaries: Valerie Finnis by Brent Elliott and Ursula Buchan; T. R. (Tommy) Garnett by Anne Latreille.Christopher, and ‘Seedheads in the Garden’ by Noel Kingsbury; Rosemary Lindsay blows the dust off ‘The Small Garden’ by C. E. Lucas Phillips; Obituaries: Valerie Finnis by Brent Elliott and Ursula Buchan; T. R. (Tommy) Garnett by Anne Latreille.

Hortus- 81 (Spring 2007)

Mirabel Osler: ‘Twenty-one Years: A Personal Reflection’ on the twenty-first anniversary year of HORTUS; Catherine Beale: ‘A Notable Narcissus Nursery’; John Akeroyd: ‘Suburban Spring: A Sentimental Journey’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Recycling in Docklands: The Thames Barrier Park’; Helena Attlee: ‘Villa Cimbrone’; Ambra Edwards: ‘Perspectives on the Taj: Radical Restoration at a World Heritage Site’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Definitive Answers or , Bring on the Lily-of-the-Valley?’; Diana Ross interviews poet, novelist and gardener Ronald Blythe; Katherine Lambert and Tim Rock: ‘Something Old, Something New: Garden Visiting Down the Ages’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Three Hundred Years of Linnaeus’; William Grant: ‘On the Road to Roses;’ James Cross: ‘Legal Liability for Damage Caused by Trees (A Response)’; Peter Parker: ‘The Gardens of William Sansom (Gardens in Fiction); Charles Elliott on ‘Woodlands’ by Oliver Rackham; ‘The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag’ reviews of ‘The Night Life of Trees’, ‘Strange Blooms’ by Jennifer Potter, ‘Plants, People and Places’ by Julia Brittain, ’20 Sussex Gardens’ by Lorraine Harrison.

Hortus- 82 (Summer 2007)

Who Said …? Competition; John Akeroyd: ‘Two Iconic Orchids’ (the bee and the pyramidal); Ambra Edwards: ‘A Gardener’s Wanderings in the South of England’; Tim Longville: ‘The Northern Wanderer’; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Derreen’; Diana Ross interviews Professor James Lovelock; Tony Venison: ‘Hidden In Irises’ (the people behind the names of Cedric Morris’s ‘Benton’ irises); Betty Kershaw: ‘More Light on Goethe as Botanist, Gardener, Naturalist’; Charles Elliott: ‘Luther Burbank’; Book Reviews: Tim Longville on ‘The Anatomry of Dessert’ by Edward A. Bunyard and ‘The Downright Epicure: Essays on Edward Ashdown Bunyard’ by Edward Wilson; Charles Elliott on ‘Gifts From the Gardens of China: The Introduction of Traditional Chinese Garden Plants to Britain, 1698-1862’ by Jane Kilpatrick; Patricia Cleveland-Peck on ‘Venetian Gardens’ by Mariagrazia Dammico; Tim Longville on ‘East Wind Melts the Ice’ by Liza Dalby; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag : ‘Villa Gardens of the Mediterranean’ by Kathryn Bradley-Hole, ‘Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers’ by Witold Rybczynski and Laurie Olin; ‘Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes’ by Rick Darke, and ‘Policies and Pleasaunces: A Guide to the Gardens of Scotland’ by Katie Campbell.

Hortus- 83 (Autumn 2007)

Ambra Edwards: ‘Garden Visiting: A Summer Washout, But The Show Must Go On’; Tim Longville: ‘The Northern Wanderer’; Jo Manby: ‘Consolation of the Land: The Dingle Garden and Nursery, Welshpool, Powys’; Peter Dale: ‘Dublin and the Dillon Garden’; Faith Raven: ‘Ardtornish House: A Year in a Scottish Garden’; Celia Fisher: ‘The Lost Garden of Lyvden New Bield’; Katie Campbell: ‘Les Quatres Vents’ in Quebec, Canada’; Helena Attlee: ‘Villa san Remigio’; Anna Piussi: ‘Liminal Space – the hortus exclusus’; Book Reviews: Anthony Du Gard Pasley on ‘The Great Edwardian Gardens of Harold Peto’ by Robin Whalley; Peter Parker on ‘The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden’ by Stanley Kunitz with Genine Lentine; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees’ by Roger Deakin; ‘Viburnums: Flowering Shrubs for Every Season’ by Michael Dirr; ‘Gardening with Woodland Plants’ by Karan Junker; ‘A Year in the Life of an English Meadow’ by Andy Garnett and Polly Devlin, and ‘The Garden at Hidcote’ by Fred Whitsey.

Hortus- 84 (Winter 2007)

Diana Ross interviews Tony Schilling; Tim Longville: ‘The Norther Wanderer’ (Stobo Castle, Haystoun, Mindrum and Corsock House); Ronald Blythe: ‘In the Wintertime’; Paul Binding: ‘In Norrland’; Mirabel Osler: ‘Beyond the Golden Wreckage’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Blue Dreaming’; William Grant: ‘California: A Different Sort of Winter’; John Everett: ‘Bees Afloat’; Simon Irvine: ‘Gothic Gardening’ (Sweden: A Remarkable Showcase); John Akeroyd: ‘Concerning Catkins’; Katherine Swift: ‘The Morville Hours V: Dirige’; Isabelle Van Groeningen: ‘Berlin’s Brave New Venture’; Judith Tankard: ‘Garland Farm: Beatrix Farrand’s Last Home and Garden’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Amy Clampitt’s Ode to Resilience’; Gwen Ford: ‘Full Score: An Australian Garden Open’; Book Reviews: Judith Tankard on ‘Norah Lindsay: The Life and Art of a Garden Designer’ by Allyson Hayward; Tim Longville on ‘Garden and Climate’ by Chip Sullivan; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Helen Dillon;s Garden Book’ by Helen Dillon, ‘Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners’ by Christopher Lloyd, ‘Potted History’ by Catherine Horwood, ‘Hidden Trees of Britain’ by Archie Miles, ‘Conifers for Gardens: An Illustrated Encyclopedia’ by Richard Bitner, ‘The Royal Horticultural Society Treasury of Tree’ by Charles Elliott, ‘Topiary for Kids’ by Louella Odié; And Blowing the Dust off…: Rosemary Lindsay on ‘Gardener’s Nightcap’ by Muriel Stuart.

Hortus- 85 (Spring 2008)

Sam Llewellyn: ‘Spring Ahoy!; Ambra Edwards: ‘A Gardener’s Wanderings in the South of England’; Anne de Verteuil: ‘The Gibberd Garden’; Peter Dale: ‘In An Irish Garden: Kilmokea’; Tim Longville: ‘Tim Stead: Seizing the Day, Taking the Risk’; Helena Attlee: ‘Under a Portuguese Sky’; Kristina Taylor: ‘A Tour of Japanese Gardens’; Charles Elliott: ‘Pruning: Japanese Style’; Mark Lutyens: ‘Some Thoughts on Garden Design’; Charles Quest-Ritson: ‘Gardening with Olive Tree’; Anna Piussi: ‘Sacred Olives’; Tim Longville: ‘The Admirable Mrs King’; book reviews: Katie Campbell on ‘Garden Design in Denmark: G. N. Brandt and the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century’ by Lulu Salto Stephensen; Anna Buxton on ‘Nature’s Alchemist: John Parkinson, Herbalist to Charles I’ by Anna Parkinson; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Gardens of the Lake District’ by Tim Longville, ‘A Gardener’s Life’ by the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, ‘Creative Vegetable Gardening’ by Joy Larkom, ‘The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg’ by Alan Titchmarsh, ‘Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History’ by John Reader, ‘Camellias: The Gardener’s Encyclopedia’ by Jennifer Trehane, ‘Gardens of Europe: A Traveller’s Guide’ by Charles Quest-Ritson, ‘The Frampton Flora’ by Richard Mabey, ‘The Botanical Palette: Colour for the Botanical Painter’ by Margaret Stevens, ‘Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox’ by Victoria Finlay, RHS Wisley Handbooks, some of which include Martin Rickard on ferns, David Hibberd on hardy geraniums, Peter Ward on primroses and auriculas, Diana Grenfell on hostas, Graham Rice on hellebores, Timothy Walker on euphorbias and the late Michael Jefferson-Brown on lilies. Index to issues 81-84.

Hortus- 86 (Summer 2008)

Tradescant’s Diary: Hugh Johnson; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Two Summer Sunrises’; John Akeroyd: ‘Hail to Honeysuckle: the Scent of Summertime’; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Mount Usher’; Simon Eade: ‘Pompeii, Hever Castle and the World’s Richest Man’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Charleston Revisited’; Humphrey Stone: ‘Reynolds Stone and The Old Rectory Garden, Litton Cheney’; Diana Ross: ‘Interview with Lucinda Lambton at Home in Buckinghamshire’; Jenny Balfour-Paul: ‘It’s in the Jeans ( Indigo: Beyond the Blue Horizon)’; Charles Elliott: ‘Wild West Wind’; Irene Feesey: ‘Looking Back: Three Victoria Gardening Scribes’; Tim Longville: ‘Personal and Pleasing (Buckner Hollingsworth: Tomboy, Gardener, Chronicler of Gardeners and Gardens)’; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Travels in China’ by Roy Lancaster, ‘Frank Kingdon Ward’s Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges’ edited by Kenneth Cox, ‘In Search of Remarkable Trees’ by Thomas Pakenham, ‘Gardens of Portugal’ by Helena Attlee, ‘Garden Plants for Scotland’ by Kenneth Cox and Raoul Curtis-Machin.

Hortus- 87 (Autumn 2008)

Tradescant’s Diary: Hugh Johnson; John Akeroyd: ‘A Welcome Immigrant: The Horse Chestnut Past and Future’; Bryan Forbes: ‘Flowers are Not for Here’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Nothing Superfluous, Nothing Unloved’ (The Garden at Parham Park. Sussex); William Grant: ‘Warm Tea?’ (tea roses); Tim Longville: ‘Picture of a Floating World’ (Norfolk and four of its watery gardens); Sukie Amory: ‘Eros toi Sofia (Sofiyivka: A Garden of Allusion in Ukraine – Part One)’; Diana Ross: meets Princess Greta Sturdza in her Normandy garden’; Tim Longville: ‘Vita’s Other Other World or Truth Stranger Than Fiction’; Charles Elliott: ‘Piercefield and the Picturesque’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Moodswings’; Book Reviews: Betty Kershaw on ‘Russian Parks and Gardens’ by Peter Hayden, and Peter Parker on ‘Gardeners: Encounters with Exceptional People’ by Diana Ross.

Hortus- 88 (Winter 2008)

Tradescant’s Diary: Hugh Johnson; Joan Loraine: ‘Hunting the Dog’s Tooth’ (Erythroniums in the Gardens and in the Wild, Part One); Rosemary Lindsay: ‘My London Garden’; Ambra Edwards: ‘Inestimable d’Este’; Tim Longville: ‘I am Vere Saturninus’ (The Long Strange Life of Sir Herbert Maxwell of Monreith); Peter Parker: ‘Chalo! Chalo!’ (The Jagannath Ghat Flower Market, Calcutta); Stephanie Boudazin: ‘A Poetic Love of Pears’ (Jean-Baptiste De La Quintaine, 1624-88); Sukie Amory: ‘Eros toi Sofia (Sofiyivka: A Garden of Allusion in Ukraine – Part Two)’; Charles Elliott: ‘The Knotweed Challenge’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘What shall we do with the Snowbound Aesthete?’; Book Reviews: Judith Tankard on ‘William Robinson: The Wild Gardener’ by Richard Bisgrove, and Peter Parker on ‘Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime’ by Kenneth I. Helphand. The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Seeds of Adventure’ by Peter Cox and Peter Hutchison, ‘Close’ by Allan Pollok-Morris, ‘Islamic Gardens and Landscapes’ by D. Fairchild Ruggles, ‘Chicago Gardens: The Early History’ by Cathy Jean Maloney, ‘Mr Roscoe’s Garden’ by Jyll Bradley.

Hortus- 89 (Spring 2009)

Tradescant’s Diary: Hugh Johnson; John Akeroyd: ‘Little Suns at Winter’s End’ (In Praise of the Lesser Celandine); Paul Williams: ‘Euphorbia Euphoria’; Charles Elliott: ‘The GLP’ (The Gold-Laced Polyanthus); Joan Loraine: ‘Hunting the Dog’s Tooth’ (Erythroniums in the Gardens and in the Wild, Part Two); Diana Ross meets Stephen Venables, Moutaineer/ Gardener; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Altamont’; Marta McDowell: ‘Hollywood and Vine’ (A Gardener’s Guide to Film); Sukie Amory: ‘Eros toi Sofia (Sofiyivka: A Garden of Allusion in Ukraine – Part Three); Sam Llewellyn: ‘The Spring Express’; Book Reviews: Sue Gee on ‘The Morville Hours’ by Katherine Swift, Charles Quest-Ritson on ‘Eugenio’s New Neighbours in Spanish Galicia’ by Margaret Gimson; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Outsiders’ by Ronald Blythe, ‘Figs, Dates , Laurel, and Myrrh (Plants of the Bible and the Quran)’ by Lytton John Musselman, ‘The Gardens at Kew’ by Allen Paterson; ‘Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay’ by John Dixon Hunt. Index to issues 85-88 (2008).

HORTUS-1:(Spring 1987) Out of print – now a highly-prized and valuable collector’s item fetching large sums of money. Sylvia Crowe on William Robinson at Gravetye; Beth Chatto on Cedric Morris; Penelope Hobhouse: Phyllis Reiss at Tintinhull; Pamela Schwerdt on maintaining Sissinghurst; Mavis Batey: History in Gardens; Christopher Grey-Wilson: Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1787-1987; John Brookes: garden design now; Stephen Lacey: gardening with scent; Will Ingwersen: American plants in British gardens (Part I of 2); Photographs by Hugh Palmer from Penelope Hobhouse's book Private Gardens of England; Anthony Huxley on taxonomy; Rosemary Verey on gardens in Charleston, USA; Carole Ottesen on Oehme and van Sweden; Nancy-Mary Goodall: Chinese gardens; Ronald Blythe: An Essayist in the Garden; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels. Book reviews by Jane Brown, Patrick Goode, Anthony Huxley, Will Tjaden, Arthur Hellyer, Celia Haddon, Gerda Barlow, Anthony du Gard Pasley, L.J.Fricker, José Manser, Victoria Matthews and Nancy-Mary Goodall.


HORTUS-2:(Summer 1987) Stephen Lacey: green flowers; John Coke on cistuses; Will Ingwersen: American plants in British gardens (Part II of 2); Hazel Le Rougetel: new roses in Victorian times; Lionel Bacon: alpine and rock plants; Michael Lancaster: Roberto Burle Marx; Anthony Huxley: against collecting of plants in the wild; Stephen Haw: memories of the plant-hunters; David Sayers: gardens and flora of the Azores; Kay Sanecki on the Countess of Warwick; Alvilde Lees-Milne: Lawrence Johnston at Hidcote; Arthur Hellyer: the garden at Coleton Fishacre; John Francis: Cranborne Manor, Dorset; Janet Poor: The Chicago Botanic Garden; Nancy-Mary Goodall: Gardens in Fiction – Henry James and The Aspern Papers. Book reviews by Penelope Hobhouse, Stephen Lacey, Patrick Goode, Jane Brown, Richard Mabey, John Negus, Graham Rice and Victoria Matthews.


HORTUS-3:(Autumn 1987) Allen Patterson: history of herb gardens; Stephen Haw: gentians; Stephen Lacey: black and brown flowers; Arthur Hellyer: plants for a frost-free conservatory; Melvyn Jope: clivias; David McClintock: heathers in the garden, in history; Nigel Colborn on two gardens in Rutland: John Codrington's and his own at Careby Manor; Penelope Hobhouse: gardens of the Villa La Foce, Italy; Mirabel Osler: a plea for chaos in the garden; Stephen Haw on his new garden in the Cotswolds (part one of five); Jane Brown on Hampshire gardens; Audrey Le Lièvre: flowering bulbs on naval ships; Nancy-Mary Goodall: literary arbours; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Firbank. Book reviews by Victoria Matthews, Anthony Huxley, Anna Pavord, Rosemary Verey, John Brookes and Jane Brown. Also two letters about the house and garden in Rye where both Henry James and E.F.Benson had lived (ref gardens in fiction HORTUS 1 and 2).


HORTUS-4:(Winter 1987) Reports after 'The Great Storm'; Stephen Haw: garden plants from China; Kerry Carman: Christmas in a New Zealand garden; William Tait: alpines in a Scottish winter; Kay Sanecki: the Countess of Warwick at Ashridge; Sylvia Crowe: London’s Holland Park gardens; Nigel Colborn: a profile of Lady Anne Palmer, creator of Rosemoor, in Devon; Robert Dash: American gardening with an English accent; Arthur Hellyer: winter flowers; Jane Brown, Stephen Lacey and John Francis imagine their ideal Christmas stockings; Will Ingwersen: gardening for and by children; Denis Wood: trees in pots; Hermia Oliver: Gardens in Fiction – Flaubert. Book reviews by John Negus, Stephen Lacey and Stephen Haw.


HORTUS-5:(Spring 1988) Audrey Le Lièvre: Maximilian Leichtlin, plantsman of Baden; Alvilde Lees-Milne: Ninfa, a garden in Italy; John Hubbard: drawing at the Alhambra; Raleigh Trevelyan: the Alhambra gardens; Beth Chatto: Mrs Desmond Underwood and silver-foliage plants; Nigel Colborn: Doddington Hall garden; Stephen Haw on his new garden in the Cotswolds (part two of five); Abbie Zabar: Allen Haskell’s nursery in Massachusetts; Hedvika Fraser on orchids; Mirabel Osler: 'Why Garden?'; Hermia Oliver: Gardens in Fiction – Jane Austen. Index to issues 1-4. Book reviews by Ronald Blythe, Penelope Hobhouse, Stephen Haw, Anthony Huxley, Stephen Lacey, Nancy-Mary Goodall and Mirabel Osler.


HORTUS-6:(Summer 1988) Nigel Colborn: a profile of Graham Stuart Thomas; Kay Sanecki on the NCCPG; Stephen Haw: day-lilies; May Woods: greenhouses 1800-1835; John Negus: terracotta from Farnham Pottery, Surrey; Hazel Le Rougetel: rugosa roses; Paul Miles: Painswick Rococo Garden in Gloucestershire; Melvyn Jope: autumn-flowering cyclamen; John Francis: the troubled life of Beverley Nichols; Hedvika Fraser: orchids in captivity; Graham Rice: the miracle of seed; Nancy-Mary Goodall: Gardens in Fiction – Milton and Paradise Lost. Book reviews by Ursula Buchan, Mac Griswold, Audrey Le Lièvre, Nancy-Mary Goodall and John Negus.


HORTUS-7:(Autumn 1988) Stephen Lacey: a call to bring back English garden traditions; Nigel Colborn: Aberdeen’s public gardens; Cavan O’Brien: John Fowler as garden designer; Hermia Oliver: the first pineapple grown in England; Gillian Mawrey: the garden at Fontevraud Abbey in France; David McClintock: coloured-foliage heathers; David Sayers: some gardens of Indian hill stations; Audrey Le Lièvre: gardening in Guernsey; Shirley Heriz-Smith: plant-collecting in the East; Stephen Haw on his new garden in the Cotswolds (part three of five); Mirabel Osler: growing tulips in orchard grass; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Elizabeth Bowen. Book reviews by Mirabel Osler, John Negus, Christopher Grey-Wilson and Nigel Colborn.


HORTUS-8:(Winter 1988) Rosemary Verey on the making of her garden at Barnsley House (part one of four); David Sayers: nineteenth-century plant hunting with Dr Thomas Thomson; Anna Pavord: Powis Castle gardens in Wales; David Suff: an English artist in California; Robert Smaus: Christmas in a southern California garden; Nigel Colborn: a profile of English plantswoman Valerie Finnis; Nancy-Mary Goodall: gardens in children’s books; further reports after 'The Great Storm'; Hermia Oliver: Gardens in Fiction – M. R. James. Book reviews by Alan Mitchell, Jane Brown, John Brookes, Sarah Coles, Stephen Lacey, Nancy-Mary Goodall, Audrey Le Lièvre and Mirabel Osler.


HORTUS-9:(Spring 1989) Rosemary Verey on the making of her garden at Barnsley House (part two of four); Beth Chatto and Brian Mathew: plants to grow for drying and indoor decoration; James Roose-Evans on the Festival of the Garden in Bleddfa, Wales; Jane Brown: The Brotherhood of Ruralists and their gardens; Nigel Colborn in conversation with wild-flower champion, Miriam Rothschild; Stephen Haw: jasmines; Mirabel Osler: Stone House Cottage garden and the Arbuthnotts' nursery; Ronald Blythe: An Essayist in the Garden; Nigel Colborn: an amusing look at garden visitors (and owners); Audrey Le Lièvre: the Jerusalem Botanic Garden; Stephen Haw on his new garden in the Cotswolds (part four of five); John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Alice Thomas Ellis. Book review by Dawn MacLeod. Index to issues 5-8.


HORTUS-10:(Summer 1989) Rosemary Verey on the making of her garden at Barnsley House (part three of four); Hedvika Fraser: gardens beyond the Iron Curtain; David Wheeler: notes on six Welsh Border gardens; Hazel Le Rougetel: species roses; Jenny Robinson on her own Suffolk garden; Mirabel Osler: back gardens; Jane Taylor: plants that look like other plants; Maureen Thom: memsahibs and their gardens in India; Stephen Haw: late summer in the mixed border; Ronald Blythe: An Essayist in the Garden; Dawn MacLeod: dreaming of gardens; Stephen Lacey's Snippets; Simon Goodenough: Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight; Graham Burgess: designing a maze for the Chelsea Flower Show. Book reviews by Victoria Matthews, Mirabel Osler, Graham Stuart Thomas, Gillian Mawrey and Will Ingwersen.


HORTUS-11:(Autumn 1989) Stephen Lacey's Snippets; Rosemary Verey on the making of her garden at Barnsley House (part four of four); Nigel Colborn: a profile of alpine plant nurseryman Will Ingwersen; Jane Taylor: plants that smell of other things; Dawn MacLeod: the garden at Inverewe in Scotland; Nigel Holman: magnolias and Chyverton; Ethne Clarke: Rous Lench Court, Worcestershire, and its garden; Hermia Oliver: Malmaison’s English links; Stephen Haw on his new garden in the Cotswolds (part five of five); Hedvika Fraser: flowers of the Nepal terai; Mirabel Osler asks, ‘was there once innocence in the garden?’; John Francis: horticultural (and other!) life in public parks; Ronald Blythe: An Essayist in the Garden; Deborah Kellaway: Gardens in Fiction – Virginia Woolf. Book reviews by Stephen Lacey, Stephen Haw, Liz Robinson, Jane Brown, Gillian Mawrey, Nancy-Mary Goodall and John Francis.


HORTUS-12: (Winter 1989) Stephen Lacey's Snippets; Audrey Le Lièvre: violas and violets in gardens, in the wild and in history; Nigel Holman: more magnolias; Barbara Segall: history and cultivation of ivy and holly; Dawn MacLeod: Ian Hamilton Finlay and his garden at Little Sparta in Lanarkshire, Scotland; Charlotte Osborne on her garden in Shropshire; Patrick Taylor: European gardens; Alastair Martin: gardens in the rain; Charles Quest-Ritson: the gardens at Monserrate in Portugal; Richard Mabey: British endemic plants; Mirabel Osler: gardens of Mogul India; Umberto Quattrocchi: Christmas in a Sicilian garden; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Guiseppi di Lampedusa; Jo Dunn: plant-hunting in the British countryside; Ronald Blythe: An Essayist in the Garden. Book reviews by Stephen Haw, Liz Robinson and Audrey Le Lièvre.


HORTUS-13:(Spring 1990) Out of print. Stephen Lacey's Snippets; Audrey Le Lièvre: tulips in literature and in history; Beth Chatto: finding plants in the wild; Nancy-Mary Goodall: Painshill Park; Jane Brown: Rodmarton Manor; Sylvia Crowe: on caring for the English landscape; Dawn MacLeod: revisits Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden at Stonypath, in Lanarkshire; Jim Gould: Florists' Copper Kettles; Shirley Heriz-Smith: plants in India; Mirabel Osler: An Essayist in the Garden; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Barbara Pym; Peter Parker Ponders…(young London writer begins new series that scrutinises gardening attitudes and styles of today). Book reviews by Janet Boulton, Hermia Oliver, Liz Robinson, Dawn MacLeod and Jane Brown. Index to issues 9-12.


HORTUS-14:(Summer 1990) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Gillian Mawrey: the garden at Glyndebourne opera house in Sussex; Elizabeth Forbes: gardens in opera; Patrice Todisco: Celia Thaxter and Sarah Orne Jewitt and gardening in NewEngland; Andrew Lawson: a photographer looks at art in gardens; Mary Keen: gardening and its allusions to literature; Prudence Smith: remembered gardens; Stephen Haw: anemones; Ruth Clausen and Nicolas Ekstrom: American perennials; Dawn MacLeod: dye plants; Jim Gould: Parkinson and his herbal remedies; William Wilkins: on founding the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust; Joan Percy: Lady Luxborough and her ferme ornée; Mirabel Osler: An Essayist in the Garden; Hermia Oliver: Gardens in Fiction – Colette; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Alastair Martin, William Stern, E.J.Willson, Gillian Mawrey and Nigel Holman.


HORTUS-15:(Autumn 1990) Out of print. Stephen Lacey's Snippets; Dawn MacLeod: the National Trusts in Britain; Alex and Helena Ramsay: making their garden at Bryncalled (part one); Celia Fisher: Shakespeare's weeds; Tom Garnett: Alister Clark, Australian plant-breeder; James Rylands: garden ornaments; Jo Dunn: pollard willows; David Sayers: Madeira's plants and gardens; Eleanora Phillips on her island garden, off the south coast of Ireland; John Kelly: plant hardiness and boundaries; Sally Phipps on her mother Molly Keane and gardening; Diana Petre: Gardens in Fiction – Molly Keane's M.J.Farrell novels; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Molly Keane's later novels; Mirabel Osler: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders…; Obituaries: Jean Player on Sally, Duchess of Westminster, and David Wheeler on Will Ingwersen. Book reviews by Denise Otis, Penelope Mortimer and Liz Robinson.


HORTUS-16:(Winter 1990) Out of print. Stephen Lacey's Snippets; Audrey Holland-Hibbert on her gardening life; Jim Gould: pest treatments in history; Janet Boulton: ideal garden design; Jane Taylor: plant nomenclature; Dawn MacLeod: the garden at Cluny, in Perthshire; Hedvika Fraser: Benedict Roezl, plant hunter; Trevor Nottle: Christmas in an Australian garden; John Francis: pot plants as presents; Eileen Stamers-Smith: Gardens in Fiction – Dickens; Mirabel Osler: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Robin Whalley, Liz Robinson, Dawn MacLeod and David Dalloway.


HORTUS-17:(Spring 1991) Stephen Lacey's Snippets; Audrey Le Lièvre: a major look at primulas in history, in the wild and in the garden; William Tait: the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in spring; William Ellis-Rees: Narcissus in mythology; Alex and Helena Ramsay: making their garden at Bryncalled (part two); Gillian Mawrey: the formal gardens of Villandry, and their makers; Judith Tankard: William Robinson and his book The English Flower Garden; Sally Festing: Gertrude Jekyll’s garden notebooks; Shirley Heriz-Smith: Thomas Mason at The Gums (New Zealand); John Francis: An Essayist in the Garden; Hermia Oliver: Gardens in Fiction – Rosamund Lehmann; Peter Parker Ponders…Book reviews by Liz Robinson, Dawn MacLeod and Peter Watts. Index to issues 13-16 .


HORTUS-18:(Summer 1991) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Nancy-Mary Goodall: Henry Cocker and his fellow Kew-trained gardening friends in Italy; Jill Parker: peonies; James Compton: salvias; David Wheeler: an interview with wood-engraver, Hilary Paynter; William Tait: the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in summer; Ruth Duthie: cottager’s fruit; John Kelly: seeds and how they grow; John Akeroyd: autumn-flowering bulbs; Richard Dadd: researching the discoverer of Allium macleanii; Dawn MacLeod: the garden at Brodick Castle, Scotland; Audrey Le Lièvre: a mystery at Alleron (a Devonshire garden and its circular walled garden); John Francis: An Essayist in the Garden; Celia Fisher: Gardens in Fiction – Chaucer; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Liz Robinson, Peter Parker, Gillian Mawrey and David Wheeler.


HORTUS-19:(Autumn 1991) Out of print. A largely American issue: Tom Fischer's Snippets; Gillian Lindsay: Clare Leighton, gardener and artist, in England and in America; William Tait: the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in autumn; Robin Karson: late nineteenth-century American gardens; John Kelly: climate zones; May Brawley Hill: Anna Warner and her book Gardening by Myself; Robert Dash: colour and the garden; Lynden Miller: Louise Beebe Wilder and her garden at Balderbrae as it is now; Ruth Clausen and Nicolas Ekstrom: The New York Botanical Garden's centenary; Mitchell Owens: Louis Comfort Tiffany and the gardens at Laurelton Hall; Ngaere Macray: a self-portrait by the founder of Sagapress; George Waters: letter from California; Denise Otis: The Great American Lawn; John Francis: An Essayist in the Garden; Marie Ingram: Edith Wharton (part one of three); Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Liz Robinson, Jane Brown and Mirabel Osler.


HORTUS-20:(Winter 1991) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Judith Tankard: Gertrude Jekyll before Munstead Wood; Dawn MacLeod: Arbigland, a garden in Scotland; William Tait: the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in winter; Jane Taylor: the naming of plants for people; Elizabeth Seager: the life and books of Karel Capek; Alex and Helena Ramsay: making their garden at Bryncalled (part three); Marie Ingram: Edith Wharton (part two of three); Audrey Le Lièvre: the garden of the Church of St Anne, Kew; Andrew Cowin: Schwetzingen Castle garden; Daphne Everett: Erica arborea and briar pipes; Helen Dyer: a London garden; Joyce Crossley: box plants; Gillian Mawrey: spoof gardening diary, ‘The Provincial Lady in France’; John Francis: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders…; Rosemary Verey: obituary of Mary Biddulph of Rodmarton Manor. Book reviews by Robin Whalley and Mirabel Osler.


HORTUS-21:(Spring 1992) Ronald Whitehouse: why ivy becomes arboraceous; Dawn MacLeod: Crarae garden in Scotland; William Ellis-Rees: mythology in the garden; John Duke: tulip fields in South Lincolnshire; Tony Schilling: his own plant-hunting adventures on Annapurna; Graham Rose: Dr Degrais, a gardener in France; Jean Holden: an urban fishpond; Audrey Le Lièvre: a letter from Zimbabwe; Shirley Heriz-Smith: a nineteenth-century botanical excursion to Mount Fuji; John Kelly: gardening myths and commandments; Jim Gould: garden thefts; Marie Ingram: Edith Wharton (part three of three); Nancy-Mary Goodall: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Liz Robinson and Dawn MacLeod. Index to issues 17-20.


HORTUS-22:(Summer 1992) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Audrey Le Lièvre: poppies in history, in the wild and in the garden; Graham Stuart Thomas: Tea Noisette roses; Jim Gould: old-fashioned laced pinks; Robert Dash: profile of Wave Hill public garden, New York; Miriam Macgregor, wood-engraver; Barbara Stebbins: the garden of the American ambassador at Kathmandu; Jo Dunn: botanising in the English countryside; James Driver: sundials; Brian Bixley: Gardens in Fiction – A.S. Byatt’s novel ’Possession’; Nancy-Mary Goodall: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Roy Strong, Victoria Schilling, Liz Robinson, David Wheeler and Marie Ingram.


HORTUS-23:(Autumn 1992) Wayne Winterrowd's Snippets; Roy Strong: on making his own garden, The Laskett, in Herefordshire; Derek Fraser Jenkins: a plantsman in south Wales with a liking for the rare and uncommon; John Kelly: ‘taste’ in the garden; Mirabel Osler: a 'control-freak' in the garden; John Treasure: Clematis texensis and its forms; Derek Toms: letter from Attica; Dawn MacLeod: Thomas Hanmer and his seventeenth-century garden in Wales; Celia Fisher: some reflections on Chinese gardens; Nancy-Mary Goodall: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker: Gardens in Fiction – Angus Wilson; obituary of Marguerite Carvallo by Gillian Mawrey. Book reviews by Dawn MacLeod, Jinty and Hugo Latymer, Gillian Mawrey, Robin Whalley, Deborah Kellaway, David Wheeler, Ronald Whitehouse, Bill Malecki and Liz Robinson.


HORTUS-24:(Winter 1992) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Graham Stuart Thomas: A.T. Johnson’s garden in North Wales; Andrew MacHugh: camellias; Elizabeth Seager: gardening in churchyards; Jim Gould: Royal Charlie, king of the florists; Andrew Cowin: the Hortus Palatinus in Germany, ‘eighth wonder of the world’; David Sayers: gardens and plants in Costa Rica; Alex and Helena Ramsay: making their garden at Bryncalled (part four); Deborah Kellaway: Tom Garnett’s garden, St Erth, in Australia; Philippa Rakusen: an introduction to a series of four articles on Harlow Carr and Ling Beeches (two Yorkshire gardens on an acid soil) in HORTUS 25-28; Nancy-Mary Goodall: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders…; Charles Quest-Ritson: Gardens in Fiction – Alfred Austin’s novels. Book reviews by David Wheeler.


HORTUS-25:(Spring 1993) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Deborah Kellaway: the garden at Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire; Peter Chappell: on Spinners, his specialist garden and nursery of woody plants in the New Forest; A.T. Johnson: spring comes to Anglesey; Philippa Rakusen: Harlow Carr and Ling Beeches in spring; Jane Sterndale-Bennett: her Hampshire garden on chalk in spring; Jim Gould: ‘Auriculas, Cigarette Cards and Nostalgia’; Marie Ingram: Theodore Payne – part one of a major survey of an English horticulturist in California; Audrey Le Lièvre: Greenway, a Devonshire garden, former home of Agatha Christie; Shirley Heriz-Smith: letter from Kenya; Timothy Ribbesford: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Katherine Swift and Lance Hattatt. Index to issues 21-24.


HORTUS-26:(Summer 1993) Issue largely devoted to roses – wide-ranging and important articles by Graham Stuart Thomas and Jane Taylor (England), Junyu Chen (China), M. S. Viraraghavan (India), William Grant (California), Odile Masquelier and Louisa Jones (France), Michael Hayward (Saudi Arabia); Anna McKane: Joseph Pemberton and roses. Also Liz Robinson's Snippets; David Wheeler: interview with garden artist, Yvonne Skargon; A. T. Johnson: The Meaning of Gardens; Jane Sterndale-Bennett: her Hampshire garden on chalk in summer; Philippa Rakusen: Harlow Carr and Ling Beeches in summer; Timothy Ribbesford: Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by John Akeroyd, Michael Jefferson-Brown, Liz Robinson and Dawn MacLeod.


HORTUS-27:(Autumn 1993) Gillian Mawrey's Snippets; John Kelly: a quirky commentary on the state of garden design today; Judith Tankard: ‘William Robinson and the Art of the Book’; Dawn MacLeod: re-reading Gertrude Jekyll; Andrew MacHugh: The Croft and the Old Parsonage, two gardens near Manchester; Roger Hudson: ‘Gardens and the Grand Tour’; Marie Ingram: Theodore Payne – part two of a major survey of an English horticulturist in California; Sheila Cosgrove: Ryoan-ji, a Zen garden in Japan; Philippa Rakusen: Harlow Carr and Ling Beeches in autumn; Jane Sterndale-Bennett: her Hampshire garden on chalk in autumn; Barbara Abbs: the suburban gardener; Hazel Le Rougetel: the artistry of court florist, R. F. Felton (1862-1947); Jim Gould: on seeing colour in the garden after a cataract operation; A.T.Johnson on ground cover; Timothy Ribbesford: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders... Book reviews by Ronald Blythe, Gillian Mawrey, Dawn MacLeod and Liz Robinson.


HORTUS 28:(Winter 1993) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Audrey Le Lièvre: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, an unexpected glance at a Ducal Seat; Tom Garnett: botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Australia; Catherine Umphrey: ’controversial’ gardening with Walter and Marjorie Fish; Sheila Cosgrove: Japanese tea gardens; A.T.Johnson on soft-wooded shrubs; Victoria Schilling: in search of record trees; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: le Jardin Shakespeare, a public garden in Paris; Marie Ingram: Theodore Payne – part three of a major survey of an English horticulturist in California; Philippa Rakusen: Harlow Carr and Ling Beeches in winter; Jane Sterndale-Bennett: her Hampshire garden on chalk in winter; Derek Toms: some thoughts on the end of horticulture; Timothy Ribbesford: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders... Book reviews by John Akeroyd, Martyn Chalk, Liz Robinson and Katherine Swift.


HORTUS 29:(Spring 1994) Gillian Mawrey's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Andrew Lawson, Bill Malecki, Carol Klein, Esther Merton and Jane Taylor; Audrey Le Lièvre: irises in history, in the wild and in the garden; Kathleen Sayer: Kellie Castle’s garden in Scotland in spring; Timothy Walker: the University of Oxford Botanic Garden in spring; John Sendy: his garden in Australia; John Akeroyd: the flowering of Gibraltar; Graham Stuart Thomas: garden artefacts; Mavis Batey: the Garden History Society; Dawn MacLeod: An Essayist in the Garden; Celia Fisher: Gardens in Fiction – Ellis Peters and the Brother Cadfael novels; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Robin Whalley, Shirley Heriz-Smith and Peter Parker. Index to issues 25-28.


HORTUS-30:(Summer 1994) Liz Robinson's Snippets; John Kelly: ‘Save a Green Piece for Me’ – the peat debate; George Gessert: plants with double flowers; Shirley Heriz-Smith: How Caple (Herefordshire) and its garden; Kathleen Sayer: Kellie Castle’s garden in Scotland in summer; Timothy Walker: the University of Oxford Botanic Garden in summer; Judith Tankard: gardening through the pages of Country Life magazine; Jane Allsopp: the remarkable story of stumbling on Sissinghurst; David Wheeler: interview with garden artist Betty Pennell; Dawn MacLeod: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker: Gardens in Fiction – Beatrix Potter.


HORTUS-31:(Autumn 1994) Gillian Mawrey's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Jane Taylor, Nick Campbell, Liz Robinson and Bill Malecki; Jonathan Bell: willows; Diana Ross: about her own London garden; Derek Toms: Sparoza, a garden in Greece; Sheila Cosgrove: Chinese influence on Japanese garden design; Andrew MacHugh: Anne Pratt, an English florist (1806-1893); Roger Turner: the mystery of the Irish spurge; Marie Ingram: the life of Lester Rowntree (1879-1979) in California (part one of three); Timothy Walker: the University of Oxford Botanic Garden in autumn; Kathleen Sayer: Kellie Castle’s garden in Scotland in autumn; Mirabel Osler: an affectionate memoir of Nancy Lancaster; Dawn MacLeod: An Essayist in the Garden; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Nancy Mitford; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Katherine Swift and Patricia Cleveland-Peck.


HORTUS-32:(Winter 1994) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Jane Taylor and Bill Malecki; Jonathan Bell: poplars; Diana Ross: a garden tour of Dorset; Elizabeth Vincent: making an English desert bloom (a Berkshire garden); Kathleen Sayer: Kellie Castle’s garden in Scotland in winter; Timothy Walker: the University of Oxford Botanic Garden in winter; John Hall: an expatriate's garden in central Italy; Kay Sanecki: gardening ladies in Victorian and Edwardian England; Jim Gould: birds in the garden in winter; Alex and Helena Ramsay: making their garden at Bryncalled (part five); Marie Ingram: the life of Lester Rowntree (1879-1979) in California (part two of three); Dawn MacLeod: An Essayist in the Garden; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Jane Gardam; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Nigel Holman, James Harris and Celia Fisher.


HORTUS-33:(Spring 1995) Gillian Mawrey's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Anne Chambers and Liz Robinson; Celia Fisher: her London garden in spring; Joan Loraine: her Somerset woodland garden, Greencombe, in spring; Roger Turner: Euphorbia broteroi, a new spurge from Spain and Portugal; Celia Fisher: in a Gloucestershire garden, a centennial celebration of Canon Ellacombe’s book; Audrey Le Lièvre: some gardens of the South African Cape; Marie Ingram: the life of Lester Rowntree (1879-1979) in California (part three of three); Derek Toms: An Essayist in the Garden; John Sendy: the jobbing gardener as fiction writer – about Australian novelist John Morrison; Peter Parker Ponders… Book review by Marie Ingram. Index to issues 29-32.


HORTUS-34:(Summer 1995) Liz Robinson's Snippets; John Kelly: an off-beat and amusing look at garden openings; Celia Fisher: her London garden in summer; Joan Loraine: her Somerset woodland garden, Greencombe, in summer; Hugh Richards: the history of the ‘Mrs Sinkins’ dianthus; Jane Allsopp: some Shropshire horticultural shows; Martin Wood: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s gardens in France; Paula Deitz: a centennial celebration of the Botanical Garden of Smith College, Massachusetts; Odile Masquelier: Victor Lemoine 1823-1911, eminent French nurseryman; Catharine Reynolds: Vaux-le-Vicomte, the garden as theatre; Derek Toms: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders … Book reviews by Mirabel Osler, Katherine Swift and Diana Ross.


HORTUS-35:(Autumn 1995) Gillian Mawrey's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Thomas Fischer, Angela Holmes, Derek Fraser Jenkins, Pam Lewis and Tim Longville; Anthony Lambert: Shakespeare’s gardens; Audrey Le Lièvre: Avenue Cottage (Devon) and its garden; Celia Fisher: her London garden in autumn; Joan Loraine: her Somerset woodland garden, Greencombe, in autumn; Robin Spencer: the making of York Gate garden (part one of four); Derek Toms: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders… Book review by Liz Robinson.


HORTUS-36:(Winter 1995) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Celia Fisher: her London garden in winter; Joan Loraine: her Somerset woodland garden, Greencombe, in winter; Tim Longville: a wealth of garden plants indoors for winter; John Francis: moving house (and garden); Jonathan Bell: gardens in the Atlas Mountains; Phyllis Guskin: American gardens; Robin Spencer: the making of York Gate garden (part two of four); Robin Whalley: part one of Harold Peto’s Japanese diaries; Deborah Kellaway; Gardens in Fiction – ‘Elizabeth and her German Garden’; Derek Toms: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders... Book review by John Francis.


HORTUS-37:(Spring 1996) Tim Longville's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Angela Holmes; Diana Ross: touring Irish gardens; Jo Dunn: William Cobbett’s gardening days; Robin Spencer: the making of York Gate garden (part three of four); Robin Whalley: part two of Harold Peto’s Japanese diaries; Anthony Lambert: the trees in my life; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: Gardens in Fiction – Hemingford Grey and Lucy Boston’s ‘Green Knowe’ books; Graham Stuart Thomas: An Essayist in the Garden: Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Liz Robinson and Judith Tankard. Index to issues 33-36.


HORTUS-38:(Summer 1996) Bettina Harden's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Thomas Fischer; John Kelly: gardening in Ireland (and other stories); Diana Ross: David Shackleton’s garden near Dublin; Judith Tankard: memories of Gertrude Jekyll’s Munstead Wood; Shirley Heriz-Smith: William Purdom, a Westmorland plant hunter in China; John Sendy: Leawood Gardens in Australia; John Francis: Hampton Court Palace and the restored Privy Garden; Sybil Spencer: the making of York Gate garden (part four of four); Graham Stuart Thomas: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker: Gardens in Fiction – Jocelyn Brooke; David Sayers: obituary of W.G. (Bill) MacKenzie, 1904-1995. Book review by William Grant.


HORTUS-39:(Autumn 1996) Tim Longville's Snippets. Jo Dunn: farm gardens in history and literature; Creina Glegg: ‘Chinese’ Wilson, plant hunter; Diana Ross: an amusing glance at slugs and snails in the garden; William Tait: a walk by the stream at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; Rachel Edwards: a new garden at Old Hall, Stiffkey, Norfolk; Marjorie Sykes: Arley Hall, a family garden; Tom Garnett: an Australian garden perspective; Catherine Hyde: allotments; John Hall: making a vineyard in Italy; Anne Willis: Gardens in Fiction – Mrs Oliphant’s Carlingford gardens; Graham Stuart Thomas: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders…; Mirabel Osler: a memoir of nurseryman and gardener, James Russell.


HORTUS-40:(Winter 1996) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Derek Fraser Jenkins, Bill Malecki, Odile Masquelier and Pamela Schwerdt (former joint head gardener at Sissinghurst); Beth Chatto: putting plant ecology into garden design; William Tait: a walk by the pond at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; Tim Longville: a celebration of artist Robin Tanner and his wife, Heather; John Francis: a visit to the roses at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire; Jane Allsopp: Coughton Court, Warwickshire; Marie Ingram: the Rockefeller gardens at Kykuit, New York; Anthea Gibson: a private nursery and garden in Tuscany; Derek Toms: raging at modern gardens; Anthony Lambert: birds in gardens; Graham Stuart Thomas: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders…; Mirabel Osler: an open letter to the editor on the tenth anniversary of HORTUS. Book reviews by Judith Tankard and Karin Hiscock.


HORTUS-41:(Spring 1997) Tim Longville's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Sarah Coles; John Kelly: the difference between horticulture and gardening; Judith Hopkinson: Hollington Herb Nursery in spring; William Tait: a walk by the peat walls at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; Alan Emmet: the old garden at Vaucluse, Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: the restoration of the gardens of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton; Heather MacKinnon: a Canadian gardener sees the ghost of her English garden; Katherine Swift: An Essayist in the Garden (The Morville Hours); William Ellis-Rees: Gerard Manley Hopkins and his poetic garden imagery; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by John Akeroyd and Patricia Cleveland-Peck. Index to issues 37-40.


HORTUS-42:(Summer 1997) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Audrey Le Lièvre: lilies in history, in the wild and in the garden; Jo Dunn: farm gardens today; Judith Hopkinson: Hollington Herb Nursery in summer; Graham Stuart Thomas: elusive but alluring fragrances; Diana Ross: a London roof garden conservatory; Judith Tankard: Ellen Biddle Shipman’s garden life; Derek Toms: a return to gardening; Katherine Swift: An Essayist in the Garden (The Morville Hours); Peter Parker Ponders...; Margaret Waddy: obituary of John Kelly. Book reviews by Judith Tankard and Peter Parker.


HORTUS-43:(Autumn 1997) Tim Longville's Snippets; Indispensable Plants by Sarah Coles; Geoffrey Dutton: the genus Sorbus; Mirabel Osler: the craft of charcoal making; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: the mulberry; Diana Ross: the trees in her London garden; Judith Hopkinson: Hollington Herb Nursery in autumn and winter; Graham Stuart Thomas: making the most of shrubs; Charles Quest-Ritson: German gardens; John Kelly: gardens and sociology; Katherine Swift: An Essayist in the Garden (The Morville Hours); John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Wilkie Collins; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Diana Ross and John Francis, CD review by Alex Dufort.


HORTUS-44:(Winter 1997) Indispensable Plants by Sarah Coles; Diana Ross's Snippets; Jo Dunn: more farm gardens of today; Hazel Le Rougetel: Philip Miller’s appreciation of roses in the eighteenth century; Tim Longville: a meeting of gardeners in Victorian Australia; John Sendy: the Chrystal family and their garden at St Vigeans, Australia; Joy Macdonald: Coleridge and his garden; Katherine Swift: An Essayist in the Garden (The Morville Hours); Peter Parker Ponders…; Anne Wallis: Gardens in Fiction – Tove Jansson’s Moominmamma books; Obituary of William Lanier Hunt by Tim Longville. Book review by Tim Longville.


HORTUS-45:(Spring 1998) Bettina Harden's Snippets; Karen Petersen: ‘Salvage, not Plunder’ a gardener’s wanderings in Africa; Diana Ross: a woodland garden in an English town; Simon Dorrell: Hadspen Gardens in Somerset in spring; David Wheeler: Moseley Old Hall garden; John Sendy: Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee gardens in Ireland; Trevor Nottle: herbaceous plants in an Australian garden; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: 'La guirlande de Julie – a floral love token'; Celia Fisher: wild orchids in folklore, art and literature; Peter Parker Ponders…; William Grant: An Essayist in the Garden (from California); Obituary of Eleanor Philips by John Akeroyd. Book reviews by Tim Longville, Ursula Buchan, Simon Dorrell, Patricia Cleveland-Peck and Diana Ross. Index to issues 43-46.


HORTUS-46:(Summer 1998) Diana Ross's Snippets; Tim Longville: two gardening doctors, number one, Harry Roberts; Tom Garnett: trees in Australia; Barbara Abbs: from the diary of a professional garden visitor in Belgium and Holland; Simon Dorrell: Hadspen Gardens in Somerset in summer; Paul Binding: a letter from Uppsala (home of Linnaeus); Celia Fisher: campanulas; William Grant: An Essayist in the Garden (from California); Anna Mumford: on commissioning today’s gardening books; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Norman Douglas and ‘South Wind’; Peter Parker: William Cowper, a mad poet in the garden. Book reviews by Noel Kingsbury, Trish Walters and Mirabel Osler.


HORTUS-47:(Autumn 1998) Katherine Swift: a year with Lindsay Bousfield, independent rose grower; Diana Ross: the garden at St Nicholas, Yorkshire; Simon Dorrell: Hadspen Gardens in Somerset in autumn; Tim Longville: two gardening doctors, number two, Tommy Horder; Martin Wood: 'Southern Grace’ (part one of Nancy Lancaster and her gardens); Belinda Stewart-Cox: on Sam Popham and his trees in Sri Lanka; Peter Parker: Christopher Smart, another mad poet in the garden; William Grant: An Essayist in the Garden (from California); On My Bedside Table, by Mirabel Osler. Book reviews by Andrew Lawson, Stephen Lacey, Rosemary Verey, Deborah Kellaway, Richard Mabey and Noel Kingsbury.


HORTUS-48:(Winter 1998) Diana Ross's Snippets; Barbara Stalbow: winter-flowering plants; Tim Longville: gardening with half-hardy plants in winter; DanièleThomas: her garden in the Cevennes; Noel Kingsbury: Roberto Burle Marx, the man, the myth and the garden; Martin Wood: ‘Following the Hunt’ (part two of Nancy Lancaster and her gardens); Audrey Le Lièvre: Henry Elwes, memoir of the great English plantsman and the’missing’ chapter of his autobiography; John Sendy: the Furphy Sandhills, gardening family in Australia; Peter Parker Ponders…; On My Bedside Table, by Katherine Swift; John Francis: Gardens in Fiction – Rose Tremain; William Grant: An Essayist in the Garden (from California). Book reviews by Diana Ross and Tim Longville.


HORTUS-49:(Spring 1999) Liz Robinson's Snippets; Katherine Swift: hyacinths and a personal memoir; Tim Longville: gardening with half-hardy plants in spring; Robin Whalley: an exploration of the garden pavilions at Montacute House, Somerset; Martin Wood: ‘Glorious Ditchley’ (part three of Nancy Lancaster and her gardens); Barbara Paul Robinson: gardens open to the public in the USA; Jo Munro: A Sense of Place, part one of a story about a New Zealand garden; John Akeroyd: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders…; On My Bedside Table, by Rory Stuart. Book reviews by Ursula Buchan, Judith Tankard, Tim Longville and Trevor Nottle. Index to issues 45-48.


HORTUS-50:(Summer 1999) Diana Ross's Snippets; Tim Longville: gardening with half-hardy plants in summer; Martin Wood: ‘Halcyon Days’ (final part of Nancy Lancaster and her gardens); Jo Munro: A Sense of Place, part two of a story about a New Zealand garden; Betty Kershaw: the ‘secret’ gardening life of Capt.W.E.Johns, the creator of ‘Biggles’; ; On My Bedside Table, by Thomas Fischer; John Akeroyd: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Katherine Swift and Fenja Gunn.


HORTUS-51:(Autumn 1999) Noel Kingsbury's Snippets; Fenja Gunn: part one of Percy Cane and his gardens; Jo Munro: A Sense of Place, part three of a story about a New Zealand garden; Tim Longville: gardening with half-hardy plants in autumn; John Akeroyd: An Essayist in the Garden; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by William Grant, Tim Longville, Liz Robinson, Judith Tankard and Martin Wood.


HORTUS-52:(Winter 1999) Diana Ross's Snippets; Antony King-Deacon: my life with Harold Nicolson at Sissinghurst after the death of Vita Sackville-West; Fenja Gunn: final part of Percy Cane and his gardens; Jo Munro: A Sense of Place, part four of a story about a New Zealand garden; David Sayers: the Ledebour Terraces at Prague Castle; John Francis: 'What does your front garden say about you?'; Peter Parker Ponders…; John Akeroyd: An Essayist in the Garden. Book reviews by John Akeroyd, Helena Attlee, John Francis, Mary Keen, Tim Longville, Liz Robinson, Diana Ross and Judith Tankard


HORTUS-53:(Spring 2000) Noel Kingsbury's Snippets; Graham Stuart Thomas: lilacs; Pamela Schwerdt: Arum creticum; Sibylle Kreutzberger: Acanthus; Christine Skelmersdale: Tulipa saxatilis/T. bakeri; Rachel Lever: Dierama pulcherrimum; Diana Ross: Mrs Keating’s Daughters (a tale of three determined lady gardeners); Betty Kershaw: the life of plantsman Reginald Kaye; Catherine Beale and Simon Dorrell: Hampton Court, Herefordshire – the gardens, old and new; Jo Munro: A Sense of Place (concluding pages of five-part series on the making of a New Zealand garden); Tom Garnett: native plants in Australia; Derek Toms: gardens as expressions of their gardeners' personalities; On My Bedside Table, by Elspeth Thompson; Peter Parker Ponders... Book reviews by Katherine Swift and William Grant. Index to issues 49-52.

HORTUS-54:(Summer 2000) Noel Kingsbury's Snippets; Peter Chappell: Cornus ‘Satomi’, Arbutus ‘Marina’ and Salix hookeriana; Graham Stuart Thomas: fragrant limes, or lindens; James Harris: late-flowering magnolias; Rachel Lever: Teucrium ackermannii; Pamela Schwerdt: ‘Second-time-round’ plants; Sibylle Kreutzberger: lesser-known nasturtiums; Bob Brown: why and how some plants are hardy; Diana Ross; interview with Tony Hall of Kew Gardens; Marta McDowell: Emily Dickinson’s garden and garden poetry; Katherine Swift: Letter from Orkney (gardening on islands north of mainland Scotland), Part One; John Hall: Italian gardens and the travel business; Bryan Forbes: Night Thoughts of a Frustrated Gardener; Peter Parker Ponders…; On My Bedside Table, by Deborah Kellaway. Book reviews by John Francis, Fenja Gunn, Liz Robinson and Rosemary Verey.

HORTUS-55:(Autumn 2000) Diana Ross's Snippets; Graham Stuart Thomas: Late autumn berries; Peter Chappell: Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Seiryu’, Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ and Lindera obtusiloba; Pamela Schwerdt: beautiful leaves; Sibylle Kreutzberger: border thalictrums; Christine Skelmersdale: Crocus laevigatus ‘Fontenayi’; Barbara Abbs: The Chalk Gardens at Highdown; Tim Longville: Young Stoneface – Ronnie Duncan’s Yorkshire garden; Katherine Swift: Letter from Orkney, Part Two; Robin Whalley: Harold Peto’s Spanish Diary 1888; Betty Kershaw: A Nest of Robins in his Hair – Russian gardens of V. Safonov; Anne Powell: The Gardens of War; Peter Parker Ponders... Book reviews by Noel Kingsbury, Tim Longville and Diana Ross.

HORTUS-56:(Winter 2000) Noel Kingsbury's Snippets; Peter Chappell: Betula utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Jermyns’, Leptospermum grandifolium and Crataegus laciniata (orientalis); Pamela Schwerdt: Polystichum setiferum 'Pulcherrimum Bevis'; Sibylle Kreutzberger: When winter comes; Diana Ross meets nurseryman Donald Waterer; Caroline Menzel: Our (Mediterranean) Island Garden; May Brawley Hill: an artist’s garden in Tuscany; Tim Longville: In Pursuit of Miss Pim; Katherine Swift: Letter from Orkney, Part Three; Celia Fisher: The Restoration of Gilbert White’s Garden at Selborne; Peter Parker Ponders…; Alex Ramsay's photographs of Italian gardens; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: The Flower Prince (Prince Eugen of Sweden). Book reviews by John Akeroyd and Liz Robinson.

HORTUS-57:(Spring 2001) Diana Ross's Snippets; Peter Chappell: Cornus ‘Ormonde’, Magnolia ‘Spectrum’ and Drimys winteri var. andina; Pamela Schwerdt: eremurus, veratrum, mertensia; Sibylle Kreutzberger: early-flowering shrubs for walls; Rachel Lever: Anemone nemorosa; Bob Brown: Coronilla valentina; Fergus Garrett (Christopher Lloyd’s head gardener): myosotis; Susie Pasley-Tyler: spring at Coton Manor, Northamptonshire; Betty Kershaw: Barnhaven primulas and Florence Bellis; Katherine Swift: Letter from Orkney (final part); Tom Petherick: spring in a walled vegetable garden; Tim Richardson: ‘What Makes a Space a Place?’; Peter Parker Ponders…; On My Bedside Table, by Jane Brown. Book reviews by Helena Attlee, Judith Tankard, Ylva Blid-Mackenzie, Patricia Cleveland-Peck and John Akeroyd. Index to issues 53-56.


HORTUS- 58:(Summer 2001) Noel Kingsbury's Snippets; Peter Chappell: Cornus alba ‘Aurea’, Hoheria angustifolia 'Borde Hill', Deutzia setchuenensis var. corymbiflora; Sarah Raven: Zinnias; Christine Skelmersdale: Agapanthus; Fergus Garrett: Verbascum olympicum – a Turkish endemic; Paul Williams: Lobelia; Susie Pasley-Tyler: Part Two - summer at Coton Manor, Northamptonshire; Eugenie van Weede: garden and plants at Bingerden, Netherlands; Mark Lutyens: the Boots Millennium Garden; George Carter: Silverstone Garden, Norfolk; Diana Ross: Plas Brondanw; Tom Petherick: Part Two – summer in a walled vegetable garden; Tim Longville: ‘The Many-Coloured Case of Alfred Smee’; Tim Richardson: ‘We See Gardens Not As They Are, But As We Are’; Peter Parker Ponders...; On My Bedside Table, by Charles Quest-Ritson. Book reviews by Mirabel Osler, Diana Ross and Katherine Swift.


HORTUS- 59:(Autumn 2001) Diana Ross's Snippets; Anthony Brooks: Echinacea purpurea – the purple coneflower; Paul Williams: Arum italicum ssp. italicum ‘Marmoratum’; Susie Pasley-Tyler: autumn at Coton Manor, Northamptonshire; Helen Leach: ‘Our Natives, Your Exotics – Your Natives, Our Weeds’ (a view from New Zealand); Anne Powell: a bicentennial celebration of William Barnes; Tom Petherick: autumn in a walled vegetable garden; Susan Elderkin: ‘The Danger of Desert Gardens’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘In the Footsteps of Frank Kingdon Ward’; Tim Richardson: ‘The Shape of the Land’; Peter Parker Ponders…; Anna Buxton: ‘A New Orchard and Garden’; On My Bedside Table, by Judith Tankard; David Wheeler: a personal tribute to Rosemary Verey; Rob Cassy: obituary of Frances Lincoln. Book reviews by Tim Longville.


HORTUS- 60:(Winter 2001) Noel Kingsbury's Snippets; Peter Chappell: Stachyurus ‘Magpie’, Prunus maackii and Daphne bholua ‘Darjeeling’; Paul Williams: Carex buchananii; Susie Pasley-Tyler: winter at Coton Manor, Northamptonshire; Fenja Gunn: ‘Taking Over an Old Garden’; Martin Wood: ‘Keeping Christmas’; Celia Fisher: ‘Retrospective: A Look at Plants in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings’; Betty Kershaw: ‘André Gide’s Garden Background’; Tom Petherick: winter in a walled vegetable garden; Tim Richardson: ‘The Ghost in the Garden’; Peter Parker Ponders...; On My Bedside Table, by Erica Hunningher; Charlotte Hare: ‘Landscape London’. Book reviews by Rob Cassy, Patricia Cleveland-Peck and Frank Ronan.


HORTUS- 61:(Spring 2002) Rob Cassy's Snippets; Carol Klein: exceptional hellebores; Paul Williams: Eranthis hyemalis; Sibylle Kreutzberger: ‘Making Our First Garden’; Fenja Gunn: ‘In Praise of Annuals’; Diana Ross: a talk with Anthea Gibson at Westwell, her Oxfordshire garden; Rosemary Lindsay: Amsterdam Canal Gardens; Noel Kingsbury: Piet Oudolf and the Dutch Garden; Catharine Nicholson: ‘The Acanthus in Architecture’; Marta McDowell: ‘With Malus Aforethought’ (some gardens in crime fiction); On My Bedside Table, by Ursula Buchan; Anna Buxton on Parkinson’s Paradisus; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Rob Cassy, Judith Tankard, David Wheeler, Patricia Cleveland-Peck and Bleddyn Wynn-Jones. Index to issues 57-60.


HORTUS- 62:(Summer 2002) Diana Ross's Snippets; Peter Chappell: Hydrangea serrata ‘Tiara’, Aesculus californica and Clethra alnifolia ‘Pink Spire’ and ‘Hummingbird’; Sibylle Kreutzberger: ‘Making Our First Garden: Summer’; Roger Turner: ‘Backgrounds and The Flower Border’; Tim Longville: the Year-Round Garden at Duntrune Castle, Argyll; Michael Cunningham: ‘Gardening Away from Home’; Peter Dale: ‘The Lure of Lost Gardens’; Betty Kershaw: ‘Proof of a Pudding’; Anne Willis: ‘A French Walled Garden in England’; John Sendy: Gardens and Russian Writers; On My Bedside Table, by Fenja Gunn; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Thomas Fischer, Tim Longville and Helene Pizzi. HORTUS- 63 (Autumn 2002): Noel Kingsbury's Snippets; Alison Huntley: Medlars; Diana Ross: a conversation with Lady Salisbury in her garden at Hatfield House; Karen Platt: Sheffield Botanical Gardens; Anne Powell: Rosamund Willoughby – fifty years of gardening across the world; Ian Collins: John Morley, painter-plantsman; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: Gardens of Lithuania; Pamela Schwerdt: 'Making our First Garden – Autumn'; Paula Deitz: on Chelsea gardens after the Show; Martin Wood: war graves and Lutyens; Catharine Nicholson: Plants in Gothic Architecture; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by Michael White and Judith Tankard HORTUS- 64 (Winter 2002): Diana Ross's Snippets; Alex Dufort: Ridler's Garden, in Swansea; Sarah Scarlett: temptations and restraint in a new garden; Paul Williams: Ribes laurifolium; Pamela Schwerdt: 'Making our First Garden – Winter'; John Akeroyd: 'Foreign fragments of an older England'; Michael Cunningham: pokeweed – Phytolacca americana; Tim Longville: the gardens of Ladykirk, in the Scottish Borders; Allan McNeish: Peter Valder – Gardener; Ian Griffiths: the Penang Botanic Gardens; Peter J.James: the mathematics of garden compost; On My Bedside Table, by William Grant; Katherine Swift: the gazebo at 27 Broad Street, Ludlow; Peter Parker Ponders… Book reviews by John Akeroyd, Tim Longville and Diana Ross. HORTUS- 65 (Spring 2003) Tim Longville’s Snippets; Alison Rix: Some Devon Gardens; Noel Kingsbury: Of Cornish Gardens; John Carter: Plant Hunting in Devon and Cornwall; Tom Petherick: ‘Undisturbed and Understood: the Garden at Tregrehan, Cornwall’; John Akeroyd: ‘Cornwall’s Offshore Paradise Garden: the Abbey Gardens of Tresco, Isles of Scilly; Mirabel Osler: ‘Something Else’; Diana Ross: meets Beth Chatto and pays tribute to her in her eightieth year; Michael Cunningham: ‘Scylla and Charybdis’: the gardening relationship between Katharine White and Elizabeth Lawrence; On My Bedside Table by Trevor Nottle; book reviews by Tim Longville, Peter Parker, Katie Campbell and Katherine Swift; Judith Tankard’s American Book Notes; Index to issues 61-64. HORTUS- 66 (Summer 2003) Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Catharine Nicholson: ‘Roses in Architecture’; Diana Ross meets Thomas Pakenham; Antonia Johnson: ‘Grayish on Clayish’ (grey-leafed plants for the garden); Rosemary Lindsay on the Gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC; Katie Campbell on the Gothic Imagination of Sir George Sitwell at Renishaw in Derbyshire; Barrie Carson Turner: ‘A Septuagenarian Tale’ (on the long life of a short-lived perennial); Lorraine Harrison: ‘Patriotism, Victory and Vegetables’ a recollection of the ‘dig for victory’ campaigns; Charles Elliott: ‘Englebert Kaempfer and the Vegetable Lamb’; Books On My Bedside Table by John Akeroyd; Graham Stuart Thomas: ‘The Weather’ (the last piece he wrote for Hortus before his death in April); personal memories of Graham Stuart Thomas by Barry Ambrose, Beth Chatto, Thomas Cooper, Noel Kingsbury, Liz Robinson, John Sales, Tony Schilling, Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck; Tim Longville: a personal tribute to Derek Toms, 1943-2003; Book Reviews by Tim Longville. HORTUS- 67 (Autumn 2003) Winners of the Times & Hortus Garden Writing Competition 2003; Tim Longville’s Snippets; Noel Kingsbury: ‘Hail the Parvenus’ an exploration of ‘new’ plants; Diana Ross meets plantsman and explorer Roy Lancaster; Alex Dufort: ‘Kilfane - An Irish Retreat’; Ingrid Verdegem: ‘To a Man Who Dislikes Orange’, an essay on autumn; John Hall: ‘The Garden of Eden in Venice’, his personal exploration of Frederick Eden’s Venetian garden; Tim Longville: ‘A Glimpse of Something More’, a re-discovery of writer Dorothea Eastwood; Charles Elliott’s essay: ‘The Age of Guano’; Books On My Bedside Table by David Wheeler; reviews of collected garden writing by Ursual Buchan and Elisabeth Sheldon, and of a new book on the eighteenth-century drawings made at Dapuri, the Bombay Governor’s residence in India. Erica Hunningher reviews ‘The Gardener’s Labyrinth” a book and exhibition of photographs of Britain’s leading garden figures. HORTUS- 68 (Winter 2003) Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Elspeth Thompson: ‘Lighting the Touch-paper’(indoor spring-flowering bulbs); Antonia Johnson: ‘The Whiff of Evergreens’ (fragrant evergreens for the winter garden); Deborah Kellaway: ‘Winter Pictures’; Ursula Buchan: ‘The Winter-Flowering Algerian: Iris unguicularis’; Celia Fisher: ‘Fair Maids of February: A Celebration of Snowdrops’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘William Morris and his Gardens at Red House and Kelmscott Manor’; Diana Ross: ‘A Walk on the Wild Side with Geoffrey Dutton’ (an interview with the Scottish poet and gardener); Charles Elliott: ‘Losers’ (mishaps in the lives of plant hunters); Serena Moore: ‘In the Oxford Botanic Garden’, a short story; Betty Kershaw: ‘Gardens in Fiction: To The Mulberry (Henry James, 1843-1916)’; Poem: ‘The Gardener’ by Anna Wigley; book reviews by Katharine Swift (on Sir Roy Strong’s garden), John Akeroyd (on wild flowers) and Mark Lutyens (on a history of the Veitch family of nurserymen); short reviews by David Wheeler and Judith Tankard’s American Book Notes. HORTUS- 69 (Spring 2004) ‘Dust to Dust’: a poem by Caroline Harbouri ; ‘Plantsman’s Plants’-a selection of plants for the spring garden by Deborah Kellaway, Mirabel Osler, Mark Lutyens, John Akeroyd, Carol Klein and David Wheeler. Martyn Rix: ‘China Treasure (modern plant-hunting in China); Graham Gough: ‘The best teacher a gardener can have’ (the making of a modern garden in the Sussex countryside); Betty Kershaw: ‘Of Purest Green’; Graham Cousins: ‘Green Leaves, Bright Flowers’; Katie Campbell: ‘The Tortoise in Garden Sculpture: Meaning and Symbolism in the Modern World’; Charles Elliott: ‘The Acid Test’; Constance Casey: ‘Public Gardens – an ‘Alternative View’; Diana Ross: ‘To garden is to seize the day: an interview with novelist Penelope Lively’; ‘What’s On – A miscellany of forthcoming events for gardeners’; book reviews: ‘Little Sparta’, ‘The Garden of Cosmic Speculation’, ‘From the Country’, ‘An Illustrated Guide to Maples’. Index to issues 65-68. HORTUS- 70 (Summer 2004) ‘In Praise of Pomegranates’: a poem by Glencairn Balfour-Paul; Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Carol Klein: ‘Summer Stunners’, a nurserywoman’s selction of best summer plants; William Grant: ‘Prickles and Thorns’, what’s the right word in rose-growing circles?; Christine Reid: ‘Living Out a Fantasy: Marylynn Abbott at West Green House’; Helene Pizzi: ‘Gardening in Hot Sand: A Mediterranean Miracle’; Diana Ross: ‘The Ring Cycle’, a cautionary tale about the dangers of lawn mowing); Catharine Nicholson: ‘The Fruit and Flowers of Grinling Gibbons’; Peter James: ‘Baneful Things Revisted’ (the world on the monkey puzzle tree); Jo Manby: ‘India’s Garden Pantheons’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Deserving of Italics’; Charles Elliott: ‘On Growing Potatoes’; Marta McDowell: ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horticulture’; book reviews: ‘Gardening on the Edge’, ‘The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers’, ‘A Passion for Plants’, ‘Poems For Gardeners’; plus Judith Tankard’s American Book Notes. HORTUS- 71 (Autumn 2004) ‘The Green Man’: poem by Cecilia Chance; Tim Longville’s Snippets; Carol Klein: ‘Autumn . . . and Beyond’; John Akeroyd: ‘Promoting Autumn’s Special Floral Garland’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Community Cuttings’; Ron Mulroy: ‘Death of a Big Tree’; Helena Attlee: ‘Burnished by the Sun of a Hundred New Summers’ (a centenary tribute to Edith Wharton’s book, Italian Villas and Their Gardens); Peter James: ‘Lines on Leaves’, the science of leaf colour; Kristina Taylor: ‘From my 2004 Diary’, plant-hunting in south-west China; Janice Sharkey: ‘A Nocturnal Garden’; Diana Ross meets Anne Scott-James; Tim Longville: ‘The Two Sides of Eden’, biographical exploration of the life of Eden Phillpotts; Charles Elliott: ‘Blue Fruit and Chimeras’; book reviews by Judith B Tankard (on ‘Lost Gardens of England’, John Akeroyd on ‘Both’, Douglas Crase’s biography of Rupert Barneby and his partner Dwight Ripley. Hortus- 72 (Winter 2004) ‘Creagh Burial Ground, Baltimore, West Cork’ (poem by Peter Dale); ‘For Gardening . . . and Civilisation’ (books of the year selected by eight eminent garden writers); Carol Klein: ‘On a Quiet Winter’s Day’ (a personal choice of winter-flowering plants); Elisabeth Sheldon: ‘Composing a Garden’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘A Feast of Delights’ (the gardens of the Prieuré Notre Dame D’Orsan, France); Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Polly Hill Arboretum’ (an exploration of an American arboretum); Diana Ross: ‘Early Days’ (a visit to James and Lady Tania Compton’s garden-in-the-making in Wiltshire); Anne Powell: ‘Our Garden Then . . . and Now’; Tim Longville: ‘The Nurseryman’s Tale’ (an interview with octogenarian nurseryman George Stephenson; Ralph Tanner: ‘An Amateur Obsession’ (plant collecting in East Africa); Michael Cunningham: ‘The Quotable Rock-Gardener’; Lorraine Harrison: ‘Something to Brighten all our Gardens’ (Shakers, faith and gardening in nineteenth-century America); Brent Elliott: Gardens in Fiction, ‘Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past’, Part One: ‘Gardens’ (Part Two: ‘Flowers’ appears in Hortus 73); book reviews: Robin Whalley on ‘Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement’ by Judith Tankard; Michael Cunningham on ‘No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence’ by Emily Herring Wilson; and Tim Longville on ‘A Passion For Plants’ by Suzanne Treseder. Hortus- 73 (Spring 2005) ‘Our Body Understands What our Mind Cannot Grasp’: poem by Kay Wisniewski; Antonia Johnson: ‘In Memoriam: Piers Simon (1971-2004)’; Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Carol Klein: ‘Beauty from Below’; Tim Longville: ‘Muncaster of the Magic, Patrick of the Plants’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Nymans in Spring’; Alberto Grossi: ‘A Whiff of the South’ (a visit to André Heller’s botanic garden near Lake Garda); Katie Campbell: ‘The Renaissance Revisited’ (Cecil Pinsent and the Anglo-Florentine garden); Michael Cunningham: ‘Do you have Sweet Rocket?’; Rob Cassy: ‘Green Man’ (interview with artist David More who devoted more than a decade to illustrating Cassell’s monumental Trees of Britain and Northern Europe); Charles Elliott: ‘Sir Walter’s Trees’; Brent Elliott: ‘Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, Part Two: Flowers’; Penelope Hobhouse: ‘On My Bedside Table’; book reviews: Deborah Kellaway on ‘Nature Cure’ by Richard Mabey; John Akeroyd on ‘La Mortola: In the Footsteps of Thomas Hanbury’ by Alasdair Moore; Charles Elliott on ‘The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms’ by Amy Stewart; Shorter reviews of: ‘Agapanthus For Gardeners’ by Hanneke van Dijk; ‘Hawthorns and Medlars’ by James B. Phipps; ‘Variegated Trees & Shrubs: The Ilustrated Encyclopedia’ by Ronald Houtman; ‘Encyclopedia of Hydrangeas’ by C. J. van Gelderen and D.M. van Gelderen; ‘Garden Plants of Japan’ by Ran Levy-Yamamori and Gerard Taaffe; ‘Tree Ferns’ by Mark F. Large and John E. Braggins; ‘Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts’ by Celia Fisher; ‘The Elder in History, Myth and Cookery’ by Ria Loohouizen; ‘Tree Houses of the World’ by Pete Nelson; ‘Fruit: An Illustrated History’ by Peter Blackburne-Maze and ‘Glendurgan: A Personal Memoir of a Garden in Cornewall’ by Charles Fox; plus Judith Tankard’s American Book Notes. Index to issues 69-72. Hortus- 74 (Summer 2005) Tim Longville’s Snippets; Mark Lutyens: ‘Wild Gardening; Noel Kingsbury: ‘The Wild and the Gardened’; Carolle Doyle: ‘Trebah: The Ethos of the Place’; Tim Longville: ‘The Collector’ Clive Collins and his Lake District garden); Diana Ross: ‘Time to Reflect’ (an interview with Hugh Johnson at home in Essex); Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Maison Folio: Scents and Spices of La Réunion’; William Grant: ‘Among the Eucalypts’; Judith B. Tankard: ‘Beyond the Garden. The Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain and Elsewhere’; Betty Kershaw: ‘Figs, Pigs and a Writing Desk’ (The Enigma of Ford Madox Ford); Michael Cunningham: ‘Plant Thieves’; Lorraine Harrison: ‘Situations Vacant’ (a history of garden satff advertising); Charles Elliott: ‘Weedlings and Seedlings’; book reviews: Ursula Buchan on ‘Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World’ by Jane Brown, and Tim Longville on ‘The Curious Gardener’ by Jürgen Dahl. Hortus- 75 (Autumn 2005) Tim Longville’s Snippets; Diana Ross interviews KMantraps and Polypodiums’, Ralph Cusack’s passion for gardening among a life of chaos; Francesca Fraser Darling: ‘Diary of a Garden History Student’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Tree, Grow Old with Me; Flower, Brighten the Hour’; Charles Elliott: ‘Pierre Poivre and the Spice Tree’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘On My Bedside Table’; book reviews: Rosemary Lindsay on ‘The Elemental Prairie: Sixty Tallgrass Plants’ by George Olson and John Madson; Bruce Wannell on ‘Gardens of Persia’ by Penelope Hobhouse; Judith B. Tankard on ‘English Gardens in the Twentieth Century from the Archives of Country Life’ by Tim Richardson; Colin Martin on ‘The Family Beds’ by Alison Turnbull. im Wilkie, landscape architect; Tricia Moody: ‘A Cotswold Gardener in Chile’; John Akeroyd: ‘Wielding my New Steel Fingernail’; Tim Longville: Hortus- 76 (Winter 2005) Tim Longville’s Snippets; Noel Kingsbury: ‘After the Deluge: Hurricane Katrina and her Aftermath’; Ambra Edwards: ‘On Meeting Ian Hamilton Finlay’; John Akeroyd: ‘A Fragment of Italy on an Atlantic Shore: Ilnacullin’; Carolle Doyle: ‘Just Like Home: The Japanese Garden at Tatton Park’; Mirabel Osler: ‘Borrowed Landscape: Observations From a Town Garden’; Diana Ross interviews Elizabeth Jane Howard; Katie Campbell: ‘Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement: The Gardens of Luis Barragán’; Betty Kershaw: ‘The Queen of Spades: Catherine the Great and her Passion for Gardening’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Lob’s Wood: Carl Krippendorf and Elizabeth Lawrence, Part One’; Charles Elliott: ‘Commerson’s Secret’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Unlikely Aromatherapy’; Rob Cassy interviews Tom Turner about his book ‘Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC to 2000 AD’; book reviews: Glencairn Balfour Paul on ‘The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants’ by Anna Pavord; Katie Campbell on ‘On Foreign Soil: American Gardeners Abroad’ by May Brawley Hill. Hortus- 77 (Spring 2006) Christopher Lloyd remembered by Beth Chatto, Tom Cooper, Graham Cough, Erica Hunningher, Andrew Lawson, Pip Morrison, Tim Richardson, Liz Robinson, Tony Schilling, and Wayne Winterrowd; Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Richly stocked and, to some eyes, eccentric’ – the Garden at Dowcra’s Manor; Alex Dufort: ‘Trevarno– the National Museum of Gardening’; Diana Ross interviews Richard Mabey; Tim Longville: ‘A Life of Popillaceous Blush’ (the life of John Coakley Lettsom); Michael Cunningham: ‘Lob’s Wood: Carl Krippendorf and Elizabeth Lawrence, Part Two’; Charles Elliott: ‘The Shrinking Violet’; Letter to the Editor from Mirabel Osler; book reviews: Tim Longville on ‘Golden Harvest: The Story of Daffodil Growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly’ by Andrew Tompsett; Colin Martin on ‘Gardenesque – A Celebration of Australian Gardening’ by Richard Aitken. Index to issues 73-76. Hortus- 78 (Summer 2006) Tim Longville’s Snippets; William Grant: ‘The Inside Story: Surprises in the Rose-growing World’; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Annes Grove; Ralph Tanner: ‘Gardening and Cemeteries’; Peter James: ‘Foliaphilia is Incurable’ (a scientist meets an architectural plant); Tony Venison: ‘Art and Irises: ‘Cedric Morris at Benton End’; Diana Ross interviews Linda Phillips and David Perkins of Roots & Shoots; Charles Elliott: ‘Getting it Wrong with Sir Francis Bacon’; Peter Parker: ‘A Horticultural Ramble in the London Library’. Book reviews: Katie Campbell on books: ‘Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style’ by Martin Wood and ‘Gardens in Perspective’ by Jerry Harpur; Rob Cassy on ‘How to Create a Jardin Paysan’ by Louise Ranck; Trevor Nottle on ‘Set for a King: 200 Years of Gardening at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton’ by Mike Jones; Elspeth Thompson on ‘The Essence of the Garden’ by Hannah Willetts and ‘England in Particular’ by Sue Clifford and Angela King; Judith Tankard on ‘The Unknown Gertrude Jekyll’ selected and edited by Martin Wood; John Akeroyd on ‘Ornamental Plants from Russia and Adjacent States of the Former Soviet Union’ by Tatiana Shulkina and ‘Flowers of Crete’ by John Fielding and Nicholas Turland; Christine Skelmersdale on ‘Tulips: Species and Hybrids for the Gardener’ by Richard Wilford; Alex Dufort on ‘The Not So Little Book of Dung’ by Caroline Holmes; Patricia Cleveland-Peck on ‘A Philosophy of Gardens’ by David E Cooper; Katherine Swift on ‘Miscelanea Structura Curiosa’ by Samuel Chearnley. Hortus- 79 (Autumn 2006) Noel Kingsbury’s Snippets; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Butterstream’; Carolle Doyle: ‘Into Africa’ (Tatton Park’s educational work in Kenya; Diana Ross interviews Christian Lamb, self-confessed ‘plantaholic’; Anne Powell: ‘Miss Dorothy Higgins – Willing to do Anything’ (from the First World War diaries of a Volutary Aid Detachment and Red Cross nurse, who made a garden); Tim Longville: ‘Quien Sabe? The Life and Work of Donald Curloss Peattie’; Caradoc Doy: ‘The Veitch Years Reviewed’; Charles Elliott: ‘The Maize Maze’; Book Reviews: Katie Campbell on ‘The Oxford Companion to the Garden’, edited by Patrick Taylor; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag (reviews of ‘The Gardens at Hatfield’ by Sue Snell, ‘Gardens of The National Trust for Scotland’ by Francesca Greenoak, ‘The Garden at Levens’ by Chris Crowder, ‘Ceanothus’ by David Fross and Dieter Wilken, ‘Daphnes’ by Robin White, ‘Alpine Plants of Europe’ by Jim Jermyn, ‘Heucheras and Heucherellas’ by Dan Heims and Grahame Ware, ‘Dogwoods’ by Paul Cappiello and Don Shadow, ‘Crocosmia nd Chasmanthe’ by Peter Goldblatt, John Manning and Gary Dunlop, ‘More Papers from the Potting Shed’ by Charles Elliott, and Food for Thought: A Culinary Tour of the English Garden’ by Simon Courtauld. Anne Jones blows the dust off ‘The Virgin’s Bower: Clematis – Climbing Kinds and Their Culture at Gravetye Manor’ (1912) by Willliam Robinson. Hortus- 80 (Winter 2006) Tim Longville’s Snippets; John Akeroyd: ‘Warming Winter’s Dark Days’; Diana Ross interviews Dan Pearson; Katie Campbell: ‘The Enigma of the Villa di Bellosguardo’; Celia Fisher: ‘A Work to Wonder At: The Creation of Stowe as a Landscape Garden’; Mark Lutyens: ‘Some Thoughts on London Trees’; Michael Cunningham: ‘On Cutting Down Trees’; Peter Parker: ‘Farewell the Allotments’; Book Reviews: Judith Tankard on ‘Italian Gardens: A Cultural History’ by Helena Attlee; Charles Elliott on ‘My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile’ by Jane Brown; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag (reviews of ‘The English Garden’ by Ursula Buchan, ‘Icons of Twentieth-Century Landscape Design’ by Katie Campbell, ‘Henry Shaw’s Victorian Landscapes’ by Carol Grove, ‘Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens’ by Tomasz Anisko, ‘Late Summer Flowers’ by Marina Christopher, and ‘Seedheads in the Garden’ by Noel Kingsbury; Rosemary Lindsay blows the dust off ‘The Small Garden’ by C. E. Lucas Phillips; Obituaries: Valerie Finnis by Brent Elliott and Ursula Buchan; T. R. (Tommy) Garnett by Anne Latreille.Christopher, and ‘Seedheads in the Garden’ by Noel Kingsbury; Rosemary Lindsay blows the dust off ‘The Small Garden’ by C. E. Lucas Phillips; Obituaries: Valerie Finnis by Brent Elliott and Ursula Buchan; T. R. (Tommy) Garnett by Anne Latreille. Hortus- 81 (Spring 2007) Mirabel Osler: ‘Twenty-one Years: A Personal Reflection’ on the twenty-first anniversary year of HORTUS; Catherine Beale: ‘A Notable Narcissus Nursery’; John Akeroyd: ‘Suburban Spring: A Sentimental Journey’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Recycling in Docklands: The Thames Barrier Park’; Helena Attlee: ‘Villa Cimbrone’; Ambra Edwards: ‘Perspectives on the Taj: Radical Restoration at a World Heritage Site’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Definitive Answers or , Bring on the Lily-of-the-Valley?’; Diana Ross interviews poet, novelist and gardener Ronald Blythe; Katherine Lambert and Tim Rock: ‘Something Old, Something New: Garden Visiting Down the Ages’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Three Hundred Years of Linnaeus’; William Grant: ‘On the Road to Roses;’ James Cross: ‘Legal Liability for Damage Caused by Trees (A Response)’; Peter Parker: ‘The Gardens of William Sansom (Gardens in Fiction); Charles Elliott on ‘Woodlands’ by Oliver Rackham; ‘The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag’ reviews of ‘The Night Life of Trees’, ‘Strange Blooms’ by Jennifer Potter, ‘Plants, People and Places’ by Julia Brittain, ’20 Sussex Gardens’ by Lorraine Harrison. Hortus- 82 (Summer 2007) Who Said …? Competition; John Akeroyd: ‘Two Iconic Orchids’ (the bee and the pyramidal); Ambra Edwards: ‘A Gardener’s Wanderings in the South of England’; Tim Longville: ‘The Northern Wanderer’; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Derreen’; Diana Ross interviews Professor James Lovelock; Tony Venison: ‘Hidden In Irises’ (the people behind the names of Cedric Morris’s ‘Benton’ irises); Betty Kershaw: ‘More Light on Goethe as Botanist, Gardener, Naturalist’; Charles Elliott: ‘Luther Burbank’; Book Reviews: Tim Longville on ‘The Anatomry of Dessert’ by Edward A. Bunyard and ‘The Downright Epicure: Essays on Edward Ashdown Bunyard’ by Edward Wilson; Charles Elliott on ‘Gifts From the Gardens of China: The Introduction of Traditional Chinese Garden Plants to Britain, 1698-1862’ by Jane Kilpatrick; Patricia Cleveland-Peck on ‘Venetian Gardens’ by Mariagrazia Dammico; Tim Longville on ‘East Wind Melts the Ice’ by Liza Dalby; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag : ‘Villa Gardens of the Mediterranean’ by Kathryn Bradley-Hole, ‘Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers’ by Witold Rybczynski and Laurie Olin; ‘Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes’ by Rick Darke, and ‘Policies and Pleasaunces: A Guide to the Gardens of Scotland’ by Katie Campbell. Hortus- 83 (Autumn 2007) Ambra Edwards: ‘Garden Visiting: A Summer Washout, But The Show Must Go On’; Tim Longville: ‘The Northern Wanderer’; Jo Manby: ‘Consolation of the Land: The Dingle Garden and Nursery, Welshpool, Powys’; Peter Dale: ‘Dublin and the Dillon Garden’; Faith Raven: ‘Ardtornish House: A Year in a Scottish Garden’; Celia Fisher: ‘The Lost Garden of Lyvden New Bield’; Katie Campbell: ‘Les Quatres Vents’ in Quebec, Canada’; Helena Attlee: ‘Villa san Remigio’; Anna Piussi: ‘Liminal Space – the hortus exclusus’; Book Reviews: Anthony Du Gard Pasley on ‘The Great Edwardian Gardens of Harold Peto’ by Robin Whalley; Peter Parker on ‘The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden’ by Stanley Kunitz with Genine Lentine; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees’ by Roger Deakin; ‘Viburnums: Flowering Shrubs for Every Season’ by Michael Dirr; ‘Gardening with Woodland Plants’ by Karan Junker; ‘A Year in the Life of an English Meadow’ by Andy Garnett and Polly Devlin, and ‘The Garden at Hidcote’ by Fred Whitsey. Hortus- 84 (Winter 2007) Diana Ross interviews Tony Schilling; Tim Longville: ‘The Norther Wanderer’ (Stobo Castle, Haystoun, Mindrum and Corsock House); Ronald Blythe: ‘In the Wintertime’; Paul Binding: ‘In Norrland’; Mirabel Osler: ‘Beyond the Golden Wreckage’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Blue Dreaming’; William Grant: ‘California: A Different Sort of Winter’; John Everett: ‘Bees Afloat’; Simon Irvine: ‘Gothic Gardening’ (Sweden: A Remarkable Showcase); John Akeroyd: ‘Concerning Catkins’; Katherine Swift: ‘The Morville Hours V: Dirige’; Isabelle Van Groeningen: ‘Berlin’s Brave New Venture’; Judith Tankard: ‘Garland Farm: Beatrix Farrand’s Last Home and Garden’; Michael Cunningham: ‘Amy Clampitt’s Ode to Resilience’; Gwen Ford: ‘Full Score: An Australian Garden Open’; Book Reviews: Judith Tankard on ‘Norah Lindsay: The Life and Art of a Garden Designer’ by Allyson Hayward; Tim Longville on ‘Garden and Climate’ by Chip Sullivan; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Helen Dillon;s Garden Book’ by Helen Dillon, ‘Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners’ by Christopher Lloyd, ‘Potted History’ by Catherine Horwood, ‘Hidden Trees of Britain’ by Archie Miles, ‘Conifers for Gardens: An Illustrated Encyclopedia’ by Richard Bitner, ‘The Royal Horticultural Society Treasury of Tree’ by Charles Elliott, ‘Topiary for Kids’ by Louella Odié; And Blowing the Dust off…: Rosemary Lindsay on ‘Gardener’s Nightcap’ by Muriel Stuart. Hortus- 85 (Spring 2008) Sam Llewellyn: ‘Spring Ahoy!; Ambra Edwards: ‘A Gardener’s Wanderings in the South of England’; Anne de Verteuil: ‘The Gibberd Garden’; Peter Dale: ‘In An Irish Garden: Kilmokea’; Tim Longville: ‘Tim Stead: Seizing the Day, Taking the Risk’; Helena Attlee: ‘Under a Portuguese Sky’; Kristina Taylor: ‘A Tour of Japanese Gardens’; Charles Elliott: ‘Pruning: Japanese Style’; Mark Lutyens: ‘Some Thoughts on Garden Design’; Charles Quest-Ritson: ‘Gardening with Olive Tree’; Anna Piussi: ‘Sacred Olives’; Tim Longville: ‘The Admirable Mrs King’; book reviews: Katie Campbell on ‘Garden Design in Denmark: G. N. Brandt and the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century’ by Lulu Salto Stephensen; Anna Buxton on ‘Nature’s Alchemist: John Parkinson, Herbalist to Charles I’ by Anna Parkinson; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Gardens of the Lake District’ by Tim Longville, ‘A Gardener’s Life’ by the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, ‘Creative Vegetable Gardening’ by Joy Larkom, ‘The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg’ by Alan Titchmarsh, ‘Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History’ by John Reader, ‘Camellias: The Gardener’s Encyclopedia’ by Jennifer Trehane, ‘Gardens of Europe: A Traveller’s Guide’ by Charles Quest-Ritson, ‘The Frampton Flora’ by Richard Mabey, ‘The Botanical Palette: Colour for the Botanical Painter’ by Margaret Stevens, ‘Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox’ by Victoria Finlay, RHS Wisley Handbooks, some of which include Martin Rickard on ferns, David Hibberd on hardy geraniums, Peter Ward on primroses and auriculas, Diana Grenfell on hostas, Graham Rice on hellebores, Timothy Walker on euphorbias and the late Michael Jefferson-Brown on lilies. Index to issues 81-84. Hortus- 86 (Summer 2008) Tradescant’s Diary: Hugh Johnson; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Two Summer Sunrises’; John Akeroyd: ‘Hail to Honeysuckle: the Scent of Summertime’; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Mount Usher’; Simon Eade: ‘Pompeii, Hever Castle and the World’s Richest Man’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Charleston Revisited’; Humphrey Stone: ‘Reynolds Stone and The Old Rectory Garden, Litton Cheney’; Diana Ross: ‘Interview with Lucinda Lambton at Home in Buckinghamshire’; Jenny Balfour-Paul: ‘It’s in the Jeans ( Indigo: Beyond the Blue Horizon)’; Charles Elliott: ‘Wild West Wind’; Irene Feesey: ‘Looking Back: Three Victoria Gardening Scribes’; Tim Longville: ‘Personal and Pleasing (Buckner Hollingsworth: Tomboy, Gardener, Chronicler of Gardeners and Gardens)’; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Travels in China’ by Roy Lancaster, ‘Frank Kingdon Ward’s Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges’ edited by Kenneth Cox, ‘In Search of Remarkable Trees’ by Thomas Pakenham, ‘Gardens of Portugal’ by Helena Attlee, ‘Garden Plants for Scotland’ by Kenneth Cox and Raoul Curtis-Machin. Hortus- 87 (Autumn 2008) Tradescant’s Diary: Hugh Johnson; John Akeroyd: ‘A Welcome Immigrant: The Horse Chestnut Past and Future’; Bryan Forbes: ‘Flowers are Not for Here’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Nothing Superfluous, Nothing Unloved’ (The Garden at Parham Park. Sussex); William Grant: ‘Warm Tea?’ (tea roses); Tim Longville: ‘Picture of a Floating World’ (Norfolk and four of its watery gardens); Sukie Amory: ‘Eros toi Sofia (Sofiyivka: A Garden of Allusion in Ukraine – Part One)’; Diana Ross: meets Princess Greta Sturdza in her Normandy garden’; Tim Longville: ‘Vita’s Other Other World or Truth Stranger Than Fiction’; Charles Elliott: ‘Piercefield and the Picturesque’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Moodswings’; Book Reviews: Betty Kershaw on ‘Russian Parks and Gardens’ by Peter Hayden, and Peter Parker on ‘Gardeners: Encounters with Exceptional People’ by Diana Ross. Hortus- 88 (Winter 2008) Tradescant’s Diary: Hugh Johnson; Joan Loraine: ‘Hunting the Dog’s Tooth’ (Erythroniums in the Gardens and in the Wild, Part One); Rosemary Lindsay: ‘My London Garden’; Ambra Edwards: ‘Inestimable d’Este’; Tim Longville: ‘I am Vere Saturninus’ (The Long Strange Life of Sir Herbert Maxwell of Monreith); Peter Parker: ‘Chalo! Chalo!’ (The Jagannath Ghat Flower Market, Calcutta); Stephanie Boudazin: ‘A Poetic Love of Pears’ (Jean-Baptiste De La Quintaine, 1624-88); Sukie Amory: ‘Eros toi Sofia (Sofiyivka: A Garden of Allusion in Ukraine – Part Two)’; Charles Elliott: ‘The Knotweed Challenge’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘What shall we do with the Snowbound Aesthete?’; Book Reviews: Judith Tankard on ‘William Robinson: The Wild Gardener’ by Richard Bisgrove, and Peter Parker on ‘Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime’ by Kenneth I. Helphand. The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Seeds of Adventure’ by Peter Cox and Peter Hutchison, ‘Close’ by Allan Pollok-Morris, ‘Islamic Gardens and Landscapes’ by D. Fairchild Ruggles, ‘Chicago Gardens: The Early History’ by Cathy Jean Maloney, ‘Mr Roscoe’s Garden’ by Jyll Bradley. Hortus- 89 (Spring 2009) Tradescant’s Diary: Hugh Johnson; John Akeroyd: ‘Little Suns at Winter’s End’ (In Praise of the Lesser Celandine); Paul Williams: ‘Euphorbia Euphoria’; Charles Elliott: ‘The GLP’ (The Gold-Laced Polyanthus); Joan Loraine: ‘Hunting the Dog’s Tooth’ (Erythroniums in the Gardens and in the Wild, Part Two); Diana Ross meets Stephen Venables, Moutaineer/ Gardener; Peter Dale: ‘In an Irish Garden: Altamont’; Marta McDowell: ‘Hollywood and Vine’ (A Gardener’s Guide to Film); Sukie Amory: ‘Eros toi Sofia (Sofiyivka: A Garden of Allusion in Ukraine – Part Three); Sam Llewellyn: ‘The Spring Express’; Book Reviews: Sue Gee on ‘The Morville Hours’ by Katherine Swift, Charles Quest-Ritson on ‘Eugenio’s New Neighbours in Spanish Galicia’ by Margaret Gimson; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: ‘Outsiders’ by Ronald Blythe, ‘Figs, Dates , Laurel, and Myrrh (Plants of the Bible and the Quran)’ by Lytton John Musselman, ‘The Gardens at Kew’ by Allen Paterson; ‘Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay’ by John Dixon Hunt. Index to issues 85-88 (2008).

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