‘Tradescant’s Diary’: Hugh Johnson; Adam Ford: ‘Our Garden Birds, No. 11: The European Goldfinch’; Alison Sparshatt: ‘Sky Fall’; Peter Dale: ‘Our Garden Colours: Purple, Violet & Mauve’; Rod Madocks: ‘In Search of the Miraculous: A Winter’s Garden in Autumn’; Jane Powers: ‘Despite the Wind…Despite the Rain…Some Gardens of South-West Ireland’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘Tall, Attractive, Remote, Dignified, Clever and possibly Shy: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde’; Dale Headington: ‘Before Ninfa: The English Duchess at Fogliano’; Katie Campbell: ‘Indeed Surreal: Salvador Dali’s Sacro Bosco’; Tony Hufton: ‘A Nice Dish of Apples: A Novice Tries his Luck Among the Gods’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Gone but not Forgotten: A few First-Class Recently-Departed Plant Nurseries’; Charles Elliott: ‘My Many Gardens’; Tom Petherick: ‘From the Home Patch’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Digging with the Duchess: Rattling On’; Book Reviews: Charles Nelson on Charles Frederick Ball: From Dublin’s Botanic Gardens to the Killing Fields of Gallipoli by Brian Willan; Naman Chaudhary on Constance Villiers Stuart: In Pursuit of Paradise by Mary Ann Price. The Editor’s Occasional Book Bag: RHS Garden Bridgewater: The Making of a Garden by Phil McCann; The Seasonal Gardener by Anna Pavord; Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori; Modern Japanese Ikebana: Elegant Flower Arrangements for Your Home by Shinichi Nagatsuka. Front Cover: Blackberry Wine by Jackie Morris (watercolour and gold leaf, a Hortus commission).