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‘Tradescant’s Diary’: Hugh Johnson; Adam Ford: ‘Our Garden Birds, No 21: The Starling’; John Akeroyd: ‘Spring’s Cloth of Gold: Celebrating Cowslips’; Katie Campbell: ‘ London’s (Secret) Islamic Gardens’; Charles Hulbert-Powell: ‘The Hickory: Our American Arborial Cousins’; Tony Hufton: ‘A Walk with Fruit: Foraging (and Scrumping) On Foot from Norwich to Rome. Part II: Vercelli to Rome.’; Alex Fenollar: ‘Doubts & Droughts: Maintaining a Spanish Garden’; Patricia Cleveland-Peck: ‘The Doctors of Dejima: Plant-Collecting in Long-Ago Japan’; Stephen Barber: ‘Rooting Out Ancient Trees in Japan’; Martin Stott: ‘Meeting the Rose Rescuer: Murray Radka in New Zealand’; Clark Lawrence: ‘Volunteers and Visitors: Weeding Before a Wedding at La Macchina Fissa’; Tom Petherick: ‘From the Home Patch’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Digging with the Duchess: Subterranea’; The Garden Arts (Books, Exhibitions,Music): Judith B Tankard on Gravetye Manor: Twenty Years’ Worth Round an Old Manor House by William Robinson. Introduction by Tom Coward; Afterword by Elizabeth and Jeremy Hosking; Rosemary Lindsay on Hedgelands: A Wild Wander Around Britain’s Greatest Habitat by Christopher Hart; Peter Dale on Lost Gardens of London by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan; Rosemary Lindsay on A Gardener’s World: Flowers in Song. Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano). Audio CD and MP3. American Book Notes: Judith B Tankard on Private Newport: At Home and in the Garden by Bettie Bearden Pardee; Living Newport: Houses, People, Style by Bettie Pardee; The Blue Garden: Recapturing an Iconic Newport Landscape by Arleyn Levee. Exhibition: Garden to Canvas: Cedric Morris and Benton End (20 May-18 June, London); Index to HORTUS issues 149–152 (2024); Front Cover: Flowering Hyacinth Bulb by Emily Patrick, Oil on Panel.

‘‘Tradescant’s Diary’: Hugh Johnson; Adam Ford: ‘Our Garden Birds, No 22: The Nuthatch: Malcolm Allison: ‘Growing with Irises’; Jo Homfray: ‘Created for the Community, Managed by the Community: The Cowbridge Physic Garden, Wales’; Tom Oliver: ‘A Garden for All Centuries: The Bishop’s Palace Garden, Hereford, 1188-2025’; Lorraine Harrison: ‘Plants and Architecture’; Marta McDowell: ‘All in the Family: Five Gardens of the Brandywine du Ponts’; Jane Powers: ‘Aphids, Ants and Nettles: Who Needs Them?’; Peter Parker: ‘Mrs Earle’s Pot-Pourris’; Peter Dale: ‘Shadows and Half-lights in Gardens’; Tom Petherick: ‘From the Home Patch’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Digging with the Duchess: Water Feature’; The Garden Arts: Brent Elliott on The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City Under Siege by Simon Parkin; Judith B Tankard on The Art of Fine Gardening: Craig Bergmann Landscape Design by Craig Bergmann with Russell Bulvala and Gardening With Nature at the New York Botanical Garden by Todd A. Forrest and Larry Lederman; Front Cover: The Physic Garden, Cowbridge by Simon Dorell, Ink and gouache on paper.

‘Tradescant’s Diary’: Hugh Johnson; Adam Ford: ‘Our Garden Birds, No 23: The Jay’; Malcolm Allison: ‘Nerines in the Garden and in the Greenhouse’; Lorraine Harrison: ‘Agapanthus: Stately, Desirable, Strong and Sophisticated’; Stephen Barber: ‘Wood-pasture, Pollards and the Prodigious Oaks of England’; Patrick Bogue: ‘Seeds of Sarajevo: A Week-Long Journey Through Central Bosnia’s Living Landscape’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Postcard from Jutland’; Caspar Giorgio Williams: ‘The Paris Garden of Robert Martinson’; Howard Tanner: ‘A Miraculous Restoration: The Garden of Camden Park, New South Wales’; Peter Dale: ‘Don’t Fence Me In: Walls, Hedges, Fences and Gates’; Michael Marriott: ‘Roses Beyond the Garden Wall’; Graeme Moore: ‘The Education of Russell Page’; Tom Petherick: ‘From the Home Patch’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Digging with the Duchess: Lwah’; The Garden Arts: Rod Madocks on The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens by Peter Dale; Barbara Segall on Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World by James Canton; Front Cover: Autumn Flowers from the Garden, oil on panel by Jo Aylward.

Tradescant’s Diary’: Hugh Johnson; Adam Ford: ‘Our Garden Birds, No 24: The Mistle Thrush’; Malcolm Allison: ‘In an English Winter Garden’; Rod Madocks: ‘Reiteration and Transcendence: Ornamental Grasses for the Winter Garden’; Jane Powers: ‘Plants to Brighten an Irish Winter’; Tony Hufton: ‘Backs to the Future: Harvesting the Wildflower Meadow at King’s College, Cambridge’; Sukie Amory: ‘The Game is Afoot: Hunting and Preserving Maine’s Heritage Fruit Trees’; Rosemary Lindsay: ‘Postcard from Brittany’; Katie Campbell: ‘Father of the Shade: Carlos Thays and the Landscaping of Buenos Aires’; Nigel Jarrett: ‘O, Plant and Animal Kingdoms Come!’; Marta McDowell: ‘The Botanical Brontes’; Tom Petherick: ‘From the Home Patch’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Digging with the Duchess: Stone Face’; The Garden Arts.: Peter Dale on Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974- by Jamaica Kincaid; Naman Chaudhary on Flora Indica. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, until 12 April 2026 by Henry Noltie; David McArthur on Flowers in a Hurry by Victoria Martin; Rosemary Lindsay on Nature’s Song. A Rory McEwen exhibition curated by Emma House at the Garden Museum, London, SE1 7LB; Front Cover: Shoo-fly plant (Nicandra physalodes ‘Violacea’), watercolour drawing by Rosemary Lindsay.