‘Tradescant’s Diary’: Hugh Johnson; Adam Ford: ‘Our Garden Birds, No. 6: The Blackbird (Turdus merula)’; Peter Dale: ‘Black’; Francis Hamel: ‘At Home at Rousham’; Matt Collins: ‘Benton End Revisited. Part One: Sunlit Once Again’; Caspar Giorgio Williams: ‘The Education of a Walker’; Paula Deitz: ‘In Thibaut’s (Rosy) Footsteps’; Johanna Antonsson: ‘A Morning Stroll around a Swedish Coastal Garden’; Kirsty Fergusson: ‘ I Heard it Through the Grapevine’; Ann Uppington: ‘Hanna Rion and Her Wilderness Gardens’; Tom Petherick: ‘From the Home Patch’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Digging with the Duches: The Old Ways’; Book Reviews: John Akeroyd on Pollination. The Enduring Relationship Betweem Plant and Pollinator by Timothy Walker; Rosemary Lindsay on Great Dixter Then & Now. Photographs by Christopher Lloyd and Carol Casselden, text by Fergus Garrett.