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Actinidia: Allium: ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ 3: LaRita White Beauty into horticulture, by arguta 3: 46 planting 2: 26 28 (‘Kleaf07028’) (LaRita Anisa Gress 4: 22 23 Where a has a ‘Issai’ 3: 46 cepa Aggregatum ‘’ 3: 28; 10: Series) 7: 43, 45 Olympic Park Selling Name (also known Aegopodium podagraria Group (see shallot) 44, 45 ‘Levada Cream’ 7: 43, 45 plantings, by Anisa as a trade designation) it 11: 31, 31 lusitanicum 8: 14 ‘’ 3: 28 Madeira Cherry Red Gress 8: 14 is typeset in a different Aeonium ‘Logan Rock’ 5: ‘Red Mohican’ 9: 12, 12 ‘ of Kent’ 8: 11 (‘Bonmadcher’) wildlower seeds, font to distinguish it from 16, 16 allotments: ‘Mother’ 2: 33 (Madeira Series) 7: 43, increasing sales of, the name (shown Aesculus: making the most of, by un-named new cultivar 44 by Sally Nex 10: 12 in ‘Single Quotes’), which horse chestnut leaf Lia Leendertz 6: 19 for London 11: 11 Madeira Crested Pink by law must be shown blotch 7: 28, 28 their cost-effectiveness, apprenticeships in (Madeira Series) 7: 44 on plant labelling. horse chestnut leaf by Emma Bond 8: 20 horticulture 4: 23 Madeira Violet (Madeira miner (Cameraria reader response 10: Anemanthele lessoniana Aquilegia: Series) 7: 43, 44 ohridella) 7: 28 17 10: 52 adaptation to specific Meteor Red (‘Supa742’) control 1: 16–17; 2: 9 Allum, David, and Anemone sylvestris 4: pollinators 2: 9 (Daisy Crazy Series) 7: damage 7: 28 Christina Shand (10: 54): 65, 68 correction 4: 10 44 its origins 12: 29 their Pembrokeshire purple-stemmed 3: 45 saximontana 2: 71 Molimba L Duplo White/ Agapanthus ‘Aimee’ 4: garden 10: 54–57 Anglesey Abbey, Cambs: Aralia cordata as a Rose (‘Argysedou’) 54, 54 alpine house, RHS Garden its Winter Walk, by vegetable 3: 45–46 (Molimba Series) 7: Agapetes ‘Ludgvan Harlow Carr: its unusual Simon Garbutt 1: 64–67 Arbury, Jim (8: 70), on: 43, 44 A Cross’ 8: 64–65, 67 plants, by Kaye Griffiths letter from John Sales the Wisley plum Molimba XL Watermelon Agastache: 2: 69–71 on its design 3: 16 collection 8: 70 (‘Argymowat’) Abelia: ‘Blue Fortune’ 6: 46 alpines outdoors: Annual General Meeting, Arbutus: (Molimba Series) 7: chinensis 10: 63 ‘Bolero’ 9: 12, 12 cultivation 2: 71 RHS 8: 83 x reyorum ‘Marina’ 10: 43, 44 ‘ Rose’ 10: 64 Agave montana 8: 65 Amaranthus as Annual Report and 64 ‘Petite Pink’ 7: 44 Aberconway, 3rd Lord 5: age and gardening, by Sir vegetable (see callaloo) Consolidated Financial unedo 9: 22 ‘Snow Storm’ 7: 43, 45 90 Roy Strong 10: 21 Amaryllis belladonna 7: Statements 2011/12, RHS: f. rubra 10: 65 ‘Starlight’ 7: 43, 44 Abies firma painted by reader response 12: 15 31, 31 summary, by Elizabeth Arceuthobium oxycedri Sultan’s Lemon Kimiyo Maruyama 3: 79 AGM (for the award, see Ambrosius, Peter 3: 69 Banks 6: 80–81 12: 64 (‘Supalem’) (Daisy Acanthus ‘Whitewater’ Amelanchier: ants 6: 27 Ardle, Jon (11: 39), on: Crazy Series) 7: 43, 44, 8: 12, 12 and also AGM plants alnifolia ‘Obelisk’ 11: 39 feeding on nectary 9: 15 autumn colour: the 45 Acer: panel; for the Annual x grandiflora ‘Autumn 7: 41, 41 underlying chemistry ‘Summer Stars’ (Daisy for smaller gardens 11: General Meeting, see Brilliance’ 11: 39 3: 28, 28 11: 39 Crazy Series) 7: 43, 44 39 RHS panel) lamarckii 11: 39 on evergreens 12: 27 bamboos for smaller Summit Peppermint capillipes 11: 36 AH (see Associate of Ammal, EK Janaki 4: 36 Apium graveolens var. gardens 11: 64–69 (Daisy Crazy Series) 7: griseum 11: 37, 40, 40 Honour) Amorphophallus konjac rapaceum (see celeriac) Hosta 7: 72–75 43, 44 stems 1: 64–65 Ajuga reptans 3: 72, 72 3: 44–45 apomicts 10: 26 Argyranthemum: ‘Vancouver’ 7: 42 maximowiczianum 11: Alam, Muhammad: his amphibians in garden apple(s): AGM plants 7: 44–45 ‘Whiteknights’ 7: 43, 45 39 unusual vegetable crops ponds 8: 76 bitter pit 10: 25, 25 cultivation 7: 45 Arisaema: palmatum 9: 51, 51 Anchusa root cuttings 11: curled 6: 22–23 National Plant by Phil Clayton 7: 70–71 var. dissectum Alder, Fern (11: 52): her 83, 83 powdery mildew Collection 7: 42 cultivation 7: 70–71 Dissectum Viride front gardens initiative in Anderton, Stephen, on: (Podosphaera RHS trial, by Roy planting partners 7: 71 Group 11: 37 Rochester, Kent 11: 52–53 snowdrops at leucotricha) 6: 22, 22 Cheek 7: 42–45 candidissimum 7: 70, ‘Ōsakazuki’ 11: 36, 37 Alexander, Paul, on: Colesbourne Park, replanting at National callichrysum ‘Étoile 70 ‘Sango-kaku’ 11: 36– replacing peat in Gloucs 2: 52–56 Plant Collection, d’Or’ 7: 42 concinnum 7: 71 38, 37 horticulture 1: 68–71 Andrews, Susyn: award Brogdale Farm, Kent Cherry Love (‘Supacher’) costatum 7: 71 pseudosieboldianum reader response 4: 17 of Veitch Memorial 3: 12 (Daisy Crazy Series) 7: griffithii 7: 70, 71, 71 11: 39 algae on evergreens 12: Medal 7: 12 rosy apple 43, 44 ringens 7: 71 tataricum 27, 27 Andropogon gerardii 8: 14 (Dysaphis ‘Cornish Gold’ 7: 45 serratum subsp. ginnala 11: 39 alien plants: lanuginosa plantaginea) 6: 22, 23 frutescens var. mayebarae 7: 71 Achillea: the contribution of 2: 71 scab (Venturia subsp. canariae 7: 44 sikokianum 7: 71, 71

2 The Garden | Index 2012 Armitage – beans, climbing French

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speciosum 7: 71, 71 ‘Calliope’ 3: 26 as hedging 11: 67 rust 3: 26, 26 Armitage, James (9: 21), ‘Fairy Tale’ 3: 26 AWARD OF GARDEN MERIT black (see ‘Aquadulce Claudia’ on: ‘Kermit’ 3: 26 Phyllostachys nigra) 3: 74, 75 Geranium phaeum 5: ‘Ping Tung Long’ 3: 26 (AGM) PLANT PROFILES controlling 5: 32 ‘Cambridge Scarlet’ 47–50 ‘Ri m a’ 3: 26 Arum italicum subsp. ‘Worplesdon’ 11: 114, 114 combinations 11: 66, 67 3: 75 Gunnera 9: 47–49 ‘Scorpio’ 3: 26 italicum ‘Marmoratum’ Lonicera x purpusii cultivation 5: 32 ‘Crimson Flowered’ plant name changes 9: Aubriet, Claude 3: 80 1: 98, 98 ‘Winter Beauty’ 2: 106, for smaller gardens, by 3: 74, 75 21 auriculas (see Primula) asparagus ‘Connover’s 106 Jon Ardle 11: 64–69 ‘Dreadnought’ 3: 75, Aronia: Austin, David: letter on Colossal’ 5: 138, 138 Magnolia grandi lora growth 11: 66 75 National Plant new rose introductions masoniana 11: ‘Exmouth’ 7: 106, 106 in pots 11: 28, 67 extra precoce a grano Collection 12: 9 10: 16 114, 114 Mahonia x media positioning 11: 68 violetto 10: 46 x prunifolia ‘Viking’ autumn: Calamagrostis ‘Underway’ 1: 98, 98 pruning 5: 32; 11: 67 ‘Giant Exhibition’ 3: edible berries 3: 43 Autumn Planting for brachytricha 10: 98, 98 Narcissus ‘Jack Snipe’ 3: restricting spread of 11: 75, 75 art, recent botanical, by Year Round Colour, Carex oshimensis 114, 114 66–67 ‘Imperial Green Ian Hodgson 3: 77–80 RHS initiative 10: 8 ‘Evergold’ 12: 90, 90 Nerine bowdenii 10: 98, Banks, Elizabeth (6: 81; Longpod’ 3: 75 Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’ bulbs 7: 31; 10: 41 Catananche caerulea 98 8: 83; 9: 79), on: Annual ‘Jade’ 3: 74 5: 16 colour: ‘’ 7: 106, 106 Nymphaea ‘Pygmaea Report and Consolidated ‘Jubilee Hysor’ 3: 75 artichoke: for smaller gardens, Chaenomeles speciosa Helvola’ 8: 98, 98 Financial Statements ‘Masterpiece Green globe (see also Cynara by Stephen Lacey ‘Moerloosei’ 3: 114, 114 Papaver orientale ‘Black 2011/12: summary 6: Longpod’ 3: 75 cardunculus) 11: 34–40 chilli ‘Super Chili’ 8: 98, and White’ 5: 138, 138 80–81 ‘Monica’ 3: 75 as a perennial crop the underlying 98 pear ‘Beurré Hardy’ 9: Banks, Sir Joseph 4: 35; ‘Optica’ 3: 74 10: 26 chemistry 11: 39 Clematis rehderiana 9: 106, 106 9: 44 ‘Perla’ 3: 74, 75 Jerusalem, as a flavours 10: 44–45 106, 106 Philadelphus ‘Sybille’ 6: barberry (see ) ‘Red Epicure’ 3: 75 perennial crop 10: 26 plantings: Cornus mas ‘Golden 114, 114 bare-root perennials: ‘Robin Hood’ 3: 75, 75 Arum italicum subsp. bare-root perennials Glory’ 2: 106, 106 Pyracantha ‘Teton’ 10: autumn planting 10: 40 ‘Scabiola Verde’ 3: italicum ‘Marmoratum’ 10: 40 Coronilla valentina 98, 98 bark, composted 1: 48 75, 75 1: 67; 98, 98 bedding 10: 41 subsp. glauca ‘Citrina’ rhubarb ‘Timperley Barn, ¬e, Bedmond, ‘Statissa’ 3: 75 ash, ash dieback (see by Chris Young 10: 15 11: 114, 114 Early’ 3: 114, 114 Herts 3: 32–38 ‘Suprifin’ 3: 75, 75 Fraxinus) by Nigel Colborn 10: Dicentra formosa Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’ 5: Barney, Paul (3: 44): ‘¬e Sutton’ 3: 75, 75; ash (residue) as a source 21 ‘Bacchanal’ 4: 122, 122 138, 138 unusual fruit and vege- 10: 46 of potassium, by by Toby Buckland Eranthis hyemalis Rosmarinus oicinalis tables at his Berkshire ‘Turbo’ 3: 75, 75 Matthew Biggs 10: 17 10: 36–41 (Tubergenii Group) ‘Sissinghurst Blue’ 6: nursery 3: 43–46 ‘Witkiem Manita’ 3: asparagus: hedges 10: 39 ‘Guinea Gold’ 1: 98, 98 114, 114 Barron, Pattie, on: Karla 74, 75 as a perennial crop 10: new roses 10: 38 Fuchsia ‘Thalia’ 7: 106, Saxifraga ‘Tumbling and Andrew Newell’s ‘Witkiem Vroma’ 3: 26 shrubs 10: 38 106 Waters’ (accompanying courtyard garden, 75, 75 ‘Connover’s Colossal’ 5: soft and bush fruit Geranium ‘Orion’ 6: 114, picture shows Saxifraga Brighton, Sussex 11: climbing French: 138, 138 10: 40 114 callosa in error) 4: 122 54–55 by Daniela Japanese (see Aralia trees 10: 37 Helianthus annuus Scilla mischtschenkoana Barter, Guy (5: 62), on: Jankowska 10: cordata) pond care 9: 29 ‘Claret’ 8: 98, 98 2: 106, 106 hardening off 5: 62–63 58–60 taurina subsp. Award of Garden Merit Hydrangea aspera Tulipa ‘Queen of Sheba’ root cuttings 11: 81–83 cultivation 10: 58–59 caucasica 6: 47 (AGM; see also AGM Villosa Group 9: 106, 4: 122, 122 bat boxes 2: 27, 27 preserving and Associate of Honour Plants panel) 5: 100 106 Viburnum Bayer Provado Ultimate drying 10: 60 awards 7: 12 Argyranthemum 7: Ilex crenata ‘Golden x bodnantense ‘Deben’ Bug Killer (letter on) 7: 18 ‘Bird’s Egg’ 10: 58, 59 Aster: 44–45 Gem’ 12: 90, 90 12: 90, 90 Be Plant Wise campaign ‘Black Croatian’ 10: x frikartii ‘Mönch’ 12: 44 broad beans 3: 75 Liquidambar styraci lua 3: 16 59 ‘Little Carlow’ 10: 50 celeriac 9: 39 beans: ‘Celina’s Flat Wide’ novi-belgii 9: 22 gooseberries 10: 24 for smaller outdoor 10: 59 Astilbe ‘Sprite’ 9: 55 leaf beet and chard 6: 55 balance of nature in spaces 3: 64 ‘Cherokee Trail of astrantia leaf miner Lobelia erinus 2: 51 gardens 5: 71 broad: Tears’ 10: 58–59 (Phytomyza astrantiae) new RHS hardiness balcony garden in South AGM plants 3: 75 ‘Coco Bicolor’ 10: 59 4: 31 ratings 8: 11 Kensington 11: 46–47 aphids 3: 26, 26 ‘Cyprus’ 10: 59 aubergine(s): second 10-yearly B Balmforth, Elizabeth (1: chocolate spot 3: 26 ‘Dinah’s Climbing cultivation outdoors 3: review 2: 9 80), on: plans for 2012 cultivation 3: 74 Blue’ 10: 60 26 awards and honours, RHS back gardens in small at RHS Garden Harlow harvesting 3: 74 ‘Fortex’ 10: 59 for smaller spaces 7: 12 spaces, ideas for 11: 48–51 Carr 1: 80 pests and diseases 3: ‘Garden of Eden’ 10: under glass 3: 65 2013 ceremony and Bacon, Nicholas 8: 83 tetraphyllum 26 59 recommended 3: 26 nominations 9: 79 badgers, albino (letter (see tetraphyllus) RHS trial, by Sue ‘Goldfield’ 10: 60 ‘Bonica’ 3: 26 on) 12: 14 bamboo: Stickland 3: 74–75

Index 2012 | The Garden 3 beans, climbing French (continued) – birds

BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS by book author by title Beaton, Caroline, et al: Hobson, Jake: The Art of Rácz, Istuán, et al: Agaves, by Greg Starr 11: Beaton 12: 89 New American Fruit and Vegetables Creative Pruning 10: 97 Conifers Around the 111 Futurescapes, by Tim Landscape, The, by for Scotland 12: 89 Jencks, Charles: The World 12: 87 Alpines from Mountain Richardson 8: 97 Thomas Christopher 5: Bowe, Alice: High-Impact Universe in the Raven, Sarah: Wild to Garden, by Richard Garden Source, The, by 137 Low-Carbon Gardening Landscape 1: 97 8: 97 Wilford 1: 96 Andrea Jones 9: 105 Our Plot, by Cleve West 4: 119 Jones, Andrea: The Richardson, Tim: Art of Creative Pruning, Gardener’s Guide to 4: 119 Cassidy, Patty: Gardening Garden Source 9: 105 Futurescapes 8: 97 The, by Jake Hobson Growing Fuchsias, The, Radical Gardening, by for Seniors 6: 113 Jones, Louisa: Rosenfeld, Richard: The 10: 97 by John Nicholass 9: 105 George McKay 4: 121 Chamovitz, Daniel: What Mediterranean Gardener’s Guide to Bad Tempered Gardener, Gardener’s Guide to Smallest Kingdom, The, a Plant Knows 6: 113 Landscape Designs 11: Propagation 9: 105 The, by Anne Wareham Propagation, The, by by Mike and Liz Frazer Christopher, Thomas: 113 Seddon, Sue, et al: The 3: 113 Richard Rosenfeld 9: 105 11: 111 The New American Lavelle, Michael: Last Great Plant Hunt 1: Britain’s Tree Story, by Gardening for Seniors, Sustainable Gardening, Landscape 5: 137 Sustainable Gardening 96 Julian Hight 12: 89 by Patty Cassidy 6: 113 by Michael Lavelle 4: 119 Cox, Kenneth, et al: Fruit 4: 119 Starr, Greg: Agaves 11: 111 Conifers Around the Grow Something to Eat Sweet Peas for Summer, and Vegetables for Lespinasse, Jean-Marie, , Gail, et al: The Last World, by Zsolt Every Day, by Jo by Laetitia Maklouf 10: Scotland 12: 89 and Évelyne Leterme: Great Plant Hunt 1: 96 Debreczy and Istuán Whittingham 1: 96 97 Debreczy, Zsolt, et al: Growing Fruit Trees 8: Walker, John: How to Rácz 12: 87 Growing Fruit Trees, by Timber Press Guide to Conifers Around the 97 Create an Eco Garden Contemporary Colour in Jean-Marie Lespinasse Succulent Plants of the World 12: 87 Leterme, Évelyne, and 5: 137 the Garden, by Andrew and Évelyne Leterme 8: World, The, by Fred Dirr, Michael A: Dirr’s Jean-Marie Lespinasse: Wareham, Anne: The Wilson 1: 97 97 Dortort 3: 113 Encyclopedia of Trees Growing Fruit Trees 8: Bad Tempered Designing and Creating Guide to Bearded Irises, Universe in the and Shrubs 10: 97 97 Gardener 3: 113 a Cottage Garden, by A, by Kelly D Norris 12: Landscape, The, by Dortort, Fred: The Timber Maklouf, Laetitia: Sweet West, Cleve: Our Plot 4: Gail Harland 6: 113 87 Charles Jencks 1: 97 Press Guide to Succulent Peas for Summer 10: 97 119 Dirr’s Encyclopedia of High-Impact Low- What a Plant Knows, by Plants of the World 3: 113 McKay, George: Radical Whittingham, Jo: Grow Trees and Shrubs, by Carbon Gardening, by Daniel Chamovitz 6: 113 Frazer, Mike and Liz: The Gardening 4: 121 Something to Eat Every Michael A Dirr 10: 97 Alice Bowe 4: 119 Wild Flowers, by Sarah Smallest Kingdom 11: 111 Mitchell, Alex: The Day 1: 96 Edible Balcony, The, by How to Create an Eco Raven 8: 97 Fry, Carolyn, et al: The Edible Balcony 4: 121 Whittingham, Sarah: Alex Mitchell 4: 121 Garden, by John Walker Wild lower Meadows, by Last Great Plant Hunt 1: Nicholass, John: The Fern Fever 11: 113 Encyclopedia of 5: 137 Margaret Pilkington 12: 96 Gardener’s Guide to Wilford, Richard: Alpines Flowering Shrubs, by In the Footsteps of 89 Gardiner, Jim: Growing Fuchsias 9: 105 from Mountain to Jim Gardiner 11: 111 Augustine Henry, by Encyclopedia of Norris, Kelly D: A Guide Garden 1: 96 Fern Fever, by Sarah Seamus O’Brien 4: 119 Flowering Shrubs 11: 111 to Bearded Irises 12: 87 Wilson, Andrew: Whittingham 11: 113 Last Great Plant Hunt, Harland, Gail: Designing O’Brien, Seamus: In the Contemporary Colour Founding Gardeners, The, by Carolyn Fry, and Creating a Cottage Footsteps of Augustine in the Garden 1: 97 The, by Andrea Wulf 3: Sue Seddon and Gail Garden 6: 113 Henry 4: 119 Wulf, Andrea: The 113 Vines 1: 96 Hight, Julian: Britain’s Pilkington, Margaret: Founding Gardeners 3: Fruit and Vegetables for Mediterranean Tree Story 12: 89 Wild lower Meadows 113 Scotland, by Kenneth Landscape Designs, by 12: 89 Cox and Caroline Louisa Jones 11: 113

beans, climbing French bumblebee, short- sweetness, by Bennett, Penelope 5: 27; crop 4: 17 Big Wildlife Garden com- (continued): haired (Bombus Matthew Biggs 2: 17 11: 46 Bere Court Farm, near petition winners 8: 81 ‘Italian Snap’ 10: 59, subterraneus) 1: reader response 4: 16 her rooftop garden in Reading, Berks 3: 43–46 Biggs, Jeremy, on: water 60 29, 29 wine 11: 87 South Kensington, by Bergenia: for wildlife 8: 72–76 ‘Jumbo’ 10: 59 flower-gripping Begonia: Phil Clayton 11: 46–47 ‘Apple Blossom’ 1: 10, 10 Biggs, Matthew, on: ‘Madeira Maroon’ mechanisms 8: 11 planting 2: 26 on: snails 5: 27 ‘Sunningdale’ leaves 1: hardening off 5: 61–63 10: 59 honeybee (Apis masoniana 11: 114, 114 reader response 7: 18 67 (see also Believe It Or ‘Major Cook’s Bean’ mellifera) 7: 18–19 Devotion (‘Yadev’) Berberis: ‘Wintermärchen’ 7: 53, Not panel) 10: 60 decline in numbers (Million Kisses Series) culinary use of 4: 53 Biggs, Sue (1: 74), on: ‘Mr Tung’s’ 10: 59 8: 23 5: 35 17 Berridge, Vanessa, on: autumn planting 10: 72 ‘Northeaster’ 10: 60 overpopulation in ‘Glowing Embers’ 5: 45 gagnepainii tulip displays in Judith Lawrence Hall 4: 80 ‘O ro’ 10: 59 London 11: 11 Semperflorens var. lanceifolia (letter and Michael Strong’s RHS Campaign for ‘Purple Prize’ 10: 59, hotels 12: 24, 24 Cultorum Group 5: 35 on) 1: 16, 16 south London garden 5: School Gardening 4: 59, 60 leafcutter (Megachile Belder, Robert and Jelena insignis 10: 64 75–77 80; 9: 74 ‘Rattlesnake’ 10: 59, ) 12: 24, 24 de 1: 50 jamesiana 10: 64 berries: RHS courses and 60 on buddleias 9: 60 bell cloches 5: 63 temolaica 10: 64 hybrid: training 6: 22–23 qualifications 12: 68 ‘Ryder’s Top of the plants for 7: 66–69; 9: 22 Bellamy, David 6: 8 vulgaris ‘Asperma’ as a definition 9: 24 RHS Grow Your Own Pole’ 10: 59 wild: their role in fruit Berryman, Alex (RHS campaign 3: 84 ‘Schöne von pollination 1: 9 Young Photographer of RHS Key Investment Richigen’ 10: 60 bee-fly, dark-edged BELIEVE IT OR NOT the Year 2012) 12: 68 Projects 7: 78 ‘Tresnjevac’ 10: 59 (Bombylius major), by monthly column by Matthew Biggs Betula: RHS Life Membership runner: Andrew Halstead 4: 33, birch wine 11: 87 5: 98 ‘Red Rum’ 10: 47 33 ash as a source of igs: planting in pits 4: 17 cleaning bark 10: 25 RHS National ‘Scarlet Emperor’ 10: Beesia calthifolia 4: 66– potassium 10: 17 lawn cutting height and pruning 10: 25 Gardening Week 9: 74 47 67, 68 beetroot: eect of salt drought tolerance 6: 15 albosinensis var. RHS plans for 2012 1: 74 Beck, Caroline, on: the beetle: on sweetness 2: 17 parsley: eect of septentrionalis 11: 36 RHS Shows in 2012 2: 50 Sowing New Seeds Asian longhorn reader response 4: 16 pouring boiling water pendula 11: 87 ¬e Queen’s Diamond project: an exotic seeds (Anoplophora coee grounds as a into drills 3: 17 utilis var. jacquemontii Jubilee 6: 76 initiative 9: 50–53 glabripennis) 6: 9, 9 slug repellent 7: 19 reader responses for bark 1: 67 volunteers’ contribution bedding: update 8: 10 reader response 9: 17 Oct and Nov 2011 2: 16 Bevan, Rebecca (4: 76), on: to the RHS 11: 92 alternatives to busy flea 5: 31 companion planting: its rhubarb leaves as a growing grapes for wildlife, RHS work to lizzies 5: 35 green tiger (Cicindela eectiveness 11: 19 preventive of brassica wine at Wisley 11: 88 encourage 8: 80 autumn planting 10: 41 campestris), by crocks at the bottom of clubroot 12: 15 strawberries at Wisley binomial system 5: 21 beds, raised: digging Andrew Halstead 6: pots: the beneits 9: 17 scorch: watering in 4: 76 bioswales 8: 14 versus topdressing 1: 26 29, 29 Euphorbia: its direct sun as a cause Bevan, Rebecca, and birch (see Betula) bee(s): lily 5: 28, 28 supposed deterrent 8: 19 Mario De Pace, on: birds: bumblebees: beetroot: eect on moles 5: 23 snowdrops: planting in summer radishes 5: as mistletoe advice for gardeners as a ‘catch crop’ 5: 30 reader response 7: 19 the green 1: 17 84–86 distributors 12: 63 10: 31 effect of salt on Big Butterfly Count 12: 44 berry-eating habits

4 The Garden | Index 2012 birds – clay pots

summer 8: 49, 49 gardens 1: 58–61 Reginald Cory Memorial Camassia: canadensis: BIODIVERSITY Borinda papyrifera 11: brownfield sites 4: 71 Cup 7: 12 at Hyde Hall and ‘Forest Pansy’ 11: 40 67, 69 as priorities for butterflies: Wisley 2: 24 ‘Ruby Falls’ 1: 10, 10 creating 7: 67 68 Bostock, Helen (9: 59), on: development 5: 12 at Stratford Butterfly naturalising 2: 24 Chaenomeles: Hyacinthoides butterflies at Stratford Buckland, Jim: award of Farm, Warwickshire, planting 2: 26 speciosa ‘Moerloosei’ bluebell Butterfly Farm, Associate of Honour 7: 12 by Helen Bostock 12: leichtlinii 3: 114, 114 identiication 4: 31 Warwickshire 12: Buckland, Toby, on: 42–46 subsp. suksdorfii x superba 3: 72, 72 in crop 2: 73 42–46 autumn planting 10: brimstone Caerulea Group 2: 24 chafer grubs 8: 24, 24 suburban gardens, by gardeners and wildlife 36–41 (Gonepteryx rhamni) Cambo Estate walled chaffinches 1: 27, 27 Leigh Hunt 11: 45 gardening 9: 71 Buddleja: 12: 45 gardens, Fife, by Jo recent decline 12: 29 the role of gardens, by RHS Plants for Bugs as attractors 9: 60 brown argus (Aricia Whittingham 8: 58–63 Chamaecyparis: Steve Head 4: 70 73 project 3: 70–72 cultivation 9: 59–60 agestis) 9: 31, 31 Camellia: lawsoniana: reader response 6: self-sown buddleias 9: National Plant comma (Polygonia at London shows, by hedge dieback 9: 25 14 59 Collection, ¬e c-album) 4: 70; 12: 42 Nigel Colborn 2: 64–66 infected with botanic gardens in the Lavender Garden, common blue cultivation 2: 22 Phytophthora 1: 8 19th century, by Ann Gloucs, by Chris (Polyommatus judging show blooms ‘Pearly Swirls’ 12: 10, survey 11: 33 Brooks 1: 58–61 Sanders 9: 56–60 icarus) 12: 45 2: 65 10 farmland: decline in botanical art, recent, by pruning 9: 59–60 decline in numbers 12: problems 2: 22 chard: numbers 9: 31 Ian Hodgson 3: 77–80 RHS trial 9: 58–59 44 pruning 2: 22 and leaf beet, by Liz feeding in winter 1: 27 botany degrees: self-sown 9: 59 gatekeeper (Pyronia survey of old Dobbs 6: 54–55 their liking for disappearance of, by davidii 9: 58 tithonus) 12: 42 specimens 8: 11 as a ‘catch crop’ 5: 30 Cotoneaster 10: 69 Sally Nex 1: 13 pruning 3: 53 meadow brown ‘Harold L. Paige’ 2: 65 cultivation 6: 54 top 10 recorded 2011 6: reader response 3: ‘Autumn Beauty’ 9: (Maniola jurtina) 12: japonica: harvesting 6: 54 29 17; 6: 15 60 45 ‘Hakurakuten’ 2: 64 RHS trial 6: 55 Birmingham Botanical Botany Department, ‘Black Knight’ 9: 60 on buddleias 9: 60 ‘Jean Clere’ 2: 64 ‘Bali’ 6: 55, 55 Gardens 1: 60, 61 RHS: its work and ‘Cotswold Blue’ 9: painted lady (Vanessa x williamsii: ‘Bright Yellow’ 6: 55 bitter pit 10: 25, 25 purpose 2: 84 56, 59 cardui) 12: 45 ‘Ballet Queen’ 2: 65 ‘Canary Yellow’ 6: 55, 55 blackcaps (Sylvia botany of garden fruit 9: ‘Dartmoor’ 9: 56 peacock (Inachis io) ‘Jury’s Yellow’ 2: 65 ‘Charlotte’ 6: 55 atricapilla) and 24–25 ‘Grey Dawn’ 9: 58 12: 45 ‘Les Jury’ 2: 64 ‘Destiny’ 6: 55, 55 mistletoe 12: 63 Bourne, Val, on: Nanho White plants for 7: 66–69; 9: Cameron, David: his ‘Fantasy’ 6: 55, 55 blackcurrant ‘Ben Bob and Shirley (‘Monite’) 9: 57 22; 12: 43, 44, 46 comments about ‘Joseph’s Coat’ 10: 45 Connan’: powdery Stoneley’s colour- ‘Orpheus’ 9: 57, 59 red admiral (Vanessa gardeners 4: 21 ‘Lucullus’ 6: 55 mildew resistance 12: 24 themed garden at ‘Shire Blue’ 9: 59 atalanta) 12: 45 Canna: ‘Rhubarb Chard’ 6: 55 Blackmore, Stephen: Woodbury Cottage, ‘Summer Beauty’ 9: small copper (Lycaena overwintered 2: 26 ‘White Silver’ 6: 55, 55 award of Victoria Medal Reigate, Surrey 9: 57 phlaeas) 12: 43 planting 2: 26 Cheek, Roy, on: RHS of Honour 7: 12, 12 32–37 fallowiana var. alba 9: small tortoiseshell canopy, raising 3: 54 Argyranthemum trial 7: Blanco White, Anne, on: Pat Edwards’ National 59 (Aglais urticae) 12: 45 Cardamine quinquefolia 42–45 bearded irises 5: 54–59 Plant Collection of forrestii 8: 65 small white (Pieris 2: 34 ‘Chelsea chop’ 5: 25 Blanusa, Tijana 6: 59 Hamamelis at globosa 9: 58 rapae) 12: 42 careers in horticulture 4: her research into Swallow Hayes, ‘Pink Delight’ 9: 57 speckled wood (Pararge 21 (see RHS Shows panel) green-roof plants 12: 8 W Midlands 1: 50–53 x weyeriana 9: 58 aegeria) 12: 45 promoting 4: 22–23 Chelsea Physic Garden 1: on: reduced watering Bowles, EA 1: 33; 2: 55; 2: ‘Bicolor’ 9: 1, 58 wall brown school leavers: 58 6: 59 76 ‘Golden Glow’ 9: 56 (Lasiommata attracting to new Garden of Edible blight, late (Phytophthora Bowyer, Michael: award ‘Moonlight’ 9: 56 megera) 12: 43 horticulture 4: 23 and Useful Plants 5: 19 infestans) 7: 31, 31 of MBE 10: 9 ‘Pink Pagoda’ 9: 60 wood white (Leptidea Carex oshimensis chemical use and wildlife Bloom, Alan (9: 55; 11: 45) box blight 3: 19 ‘Sungold’ 9: 59 sinapsis) 12: 42 ‘Evergold’ 12: 90, 90 9: 70 and Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, box tree caterpillar 3: 19 Bulbophyllum Carpobrotus edulis 1: 42 Chenopodium quinoa by Roy Lancaster 9: 54–55 Boyd, Viscountess: award nocturnum 2: 12, 12 carrot(s): 11: 14, 14 Blooms Nurseries, of Victoria Medal of bulbs: for smaller outdoor chicken of the woods Bressingham, Norfolk: Honour 7: 12, 12 autumn 7: 31; 10: 41 spaces 3: 64 fungus (Laetiporus its introductions 9: 55 boysenberry, training 6: 2 2 defined, by Mike Grant ‘Chantenay’ 10: 45 sulphureus) 2: 29, 29 blossom end rot 7: 24, 24 bracken, composted 1: 49 11: 17 ‘Early Nantes’ 10: 46 chicory 10: 45 blossom wilt 4: 27, 27 Brassica 11: 63 summer-flowering 2: Caryopteris chilli ‘Super Chili’ 8: 98, blue bean (see colourful new 26; 3: 24–25 C x clandonensis 9: 22 98 Decaisnea fargesii) selections, by Sue Bull, Ian (1: 48), on: use of Castlewellan Arboretum, chilling requirements in bluebell(s): Stickland 11: 62–63 sandy grit at RHS Garden cabbage: Co. Down 9: 8 plants, by Mike Grant 2: common (see clubroot: use of rhubarb Hyde Hall 1: 48–49 root fly 5: 31 Catananche caerulea 15 Hyacinthoides leaves as a preventive, bullace(s): ‘Christmas Drumhead’ ‘Major’ 7: 106, 106 reader response 4: 16 non-scripta) by Matthew Biggs 12: 15 and damsons, by Gerry 10: 45 ‘catch crops’ 5: 30–31 Choisya: distinguishing native 4: breeding of new crop Edwards 8: 69–71 ‘Duncan’ 11: 63 catfacing 7: 24, 24 x dewitteana: 31 cultivars 2: 73 ‘Golden Bullace’ 8: 71 ‘January King’ 10: 45 cauliflower: ‘Aztec Gold’ 5: 16, 16 Spanish (see Breezy Knees Nursery ‘Langley Bullace’ 8: 71, 71 ‘Kalibos’ 11: 62 ‘Graffiti’ 11: 62–63, 63 ‘Aztec Pearl’ 5: 42 Hyacinthoides and Gardens, York, by ‘Veitch’s Black Bullace’ ‘Langedijker Bewaar’ 2: ‘’ 11: 63 Cholmeley, Ursula (7: 57), hispanica) Roy Lancaster 6: 45–48 8: 71 72 Cautleya spicata 3: 46 gardens near Grantham, blueberry ‘Pink Briggs, , on: ‘White Bullace’ 8: 71, 71 ‘Marner Early Red’ celeriac: Lincs, by Bunny Lemonade’ 12: 10, 10 mistletoe 12: 61–64 Bullock, Andrew (9: 58): painted by Clare AGM awards 9: 39 Guinness 7: 54–59 Blythe, Jim: award of , RHS his National Collection McGhee 3: 79 cultivation 9: 38 Christmas rose (see Associate of Honour 7: 12 (see RHS panel) of Buddleja at ¬e Cabot, Frank (obituary) RHS trial at West Dean Helleborus niger) bog garden 8: 48, 48–49 Broadleigh Gardens: its Lavender Garden, 2: 12, 12 Gardens, W Sussex, by Chrysanthemum ‘Star Bond, Emma (8: 20), on: four decades of shows Gloucs 9: 56–60 Calamagrostis Sarah Wain 9: 38–39 Mist’ 8: 12, 12 the cost-effectiveness at Chelsea, by Nigel Burrough, Philippa (4: 47) brachytricha 10: 50, 52; ‘Cisko’ 9: 39 city gardens: RHS of allotments 8: 20 Colborn 4: 52–54 and Bryan: their garden 98, 98 ‘Mo n a rch’ 9: 39, 39 research into their reader response 10: broccoli: at Ulting Wick, Maldon, Calceolaria ‘Walter ‘Neo n’ 9: 39 benefits 3: 19 17 ‘Purple Cape’ 11: 62 Essex 4: 44–49 Shrimpton’ 2: 71, 71 ‘Prinz’ 9: 39 Clark, David 7: 12; 9: 79; Bopp, Wolfgang 2: 106 ‘Summer Purple’ 11: 63 bursaries: Calibrachoa Minifamous ‘Rowena’ 9: 39 12: 90 Borde Hill, W Sussex: its ‘Tenderstem’ 11: 62 National Gardens Apricot Red Eye Centaurea achtarovii 2: award of Victoria Medal collection of plant- Brogdale Farm, Kent: Scheme Elspeth (‘Kleca06124’) 4: 59 71, 71 of Honour 7: 12 hunters’ letters 11: 12 apple replanting 3: 12 ¬ompson 12: 9 callaloo 9: 52, 53; 11: 14 Cercidiphyllum: Clarke, Graham, on: borders: brokali: RHS 9: 76 Callicarpa bodinieri var. japonicum 11: 38–39 hardy gerberas 3: 68–69 management through cultivation 11: 62 busy lizzie (see giraldii ‘Profusion’ 11: 40 ‘Boyd’s Dwarf’ 11: Clarkia unguiculata 12: the year 1: 24–25 ‘Apollo’ 11: 62 Impatiens walleriana) Callirhoe bushii 8: 14 35–36 44, 46 naturalistic, at Cambo ‘Atlantis’ 11: 62 buttercups: their Caltha palustris 11: 78, 78 f. pendulum 11: clay breaker 1: 49 Estate walled gardens, Brooks, Ann, on: reflective properties 3: 12 Calvert, John, of Stratford 35–36 clay pots: winter care 12: Fife 8: 58–63 subscription botanic Butterfield, Ian: award of Butterfly Farm 12: 43 Cercis: 22

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Clayton, Phil (3: 60; see planting partners 4: by David Jewell 10: NIGEL COLBORN also Succeed With... 57 66–69 panel), on: training 4: 57 cultivation 10: 67 columnist Cordyline indivisa: ‘Candlelight’ 4: 57, 57 larger selections 10: (1: 21; 2: 19; 5: 25, 25; 7: 23; 8: 21; 11: 21) (­e Garden, Nov ‘Pagoda’ 4: 57 68–69 aberrant snowdrops 1: 21 excessive pruning 5: 25 low-maintenance lawns 2011, pp36–37): ‘Troya Dwarf’ 4: 57 pests and diseases 10: autumn planting 10: 21 Jenny and Richard 2: 19 reader response 2: 16 ‘Variegata’ 4: 56, 68 Broadleigh Gardens: its Raworth’s garden in reader response 4: 16 Penelope Bennett’s 56–57 value to wildlife 10: 69 four decades of shows Twickenham 6: 30 34 reconciling horticulture rooftop garden in ‘Winter Orange’ 4: 57 amoenus 10: 66, 68 at Chelsea 4: 52 54 keeping up with new and ecology 7: 23 South Kensington 11: ‘Eddie’s White bullatus berries 10: 1 Camellia at London introductions 8: 21 untidy gardens 11: 21 46–47 Wonder’ 11: 37, 40 conspicuus ‘Decorus’ shows 2: 64 66 response from David Clematis: mas 2: 34 10: 68 Austin 10: 16 propagation, unusual ‘Golden Glory’ 2: floccosus 10: 69 method of (letter on) 106, 106 glabratus 10: 66, 69 11: 18 ‘Shumen’ 3: 44 glaucophyllus 10: 66, Alaina (‘Evipo 056’) 8: sanguinea ‘Winter 68 COMMENT AND OPINION 12, 12 Beauty’ 1: 67 horizontalis 10: 66, 69, see also Nigel Colborn, Lia Leendertz, Mary Keen and Chris Young panels Princess Kate (‘Zoprika’) sericea: 69; 11: 40 12: 10, 10 ‘Hedgerows Gold’ lacteus 10: 66, 68, 69, alien plants: the vegetables: their breaking, by Mary Keen rehderiana 9: 106, 106 10: 64, 65 69 contribution of gardens, importance, by Toby 2: 21 tangutica 9: 22 Kelsey’s Gold lidjiangensis 10: 66, 68 by David Pearman (The Musgrave : 72 73 2 science: its importance The Countess of Wessex (‘Rosco’) 10: 64 radicans 10: 68 Garden, Dec 2011, p19): horticulture: for gardeners, by Mary (‘Evipo 073’) 7: 14, 14 Coronilla valentina ‘Rothschildianus’ 10: reader response 2: 17 and ecology, Keen 3: 19 Clethra National Plant subsp. glauca ‘Citrina’ 68–69 response from Niall reconciling, by Nigel self-seeding plants, by Collection 12: 9 11: 114, 114 salicifolius 10: 66, 67, Moore, Fera 3: 16 Colborn 7: 23 Dawn Isaac 3: 21 climate change, RHS Correa: 68 allotments: reader response : 9 reader response 5: 23 research into coping ‘Canberra Bells’ 10: 10, ‘Avonbank’ 10: 66, 69 making the most of, by 16 smaller spaces, with 3: 19 10 ‘Gnom’ 10: 68 Lia Leendertz 6: 19 as a career, by Alan gardening in, by Chris climbing methods in reflexa var. angustifolia ‘Pink Champagne’ their cost-eectiveness, Titchmarsh : 21 4 Young 11: 17 plants, by Mike Grant 4: 8: 67, 67 10: 66, 67 by Emma Bond : 20 reader response : 8 6 snails, by Penelope 15 Cortaderia richardii 8: 67 ‘Repens’ 10: 66, 68, reader response : 14 10 Bennett 5: 27 Clocaenog apple 3: 10 Corydalis malkensis 2: 69 17 its future, by Mary reader response 7: 18 coffee grounds as a slug 34, 34 transens 10: 66, 68 autumn planting: Keen : 20 8 snowdrops, aberrant, by repellent, by Matthew Cotinus: turbinatus 10: 66, 69 by Chris Young : 15 improvements in 10 Nigel Colborn 1: 21 Biggs 7: 19 leaves in winter 12: 33 vandelaarii 10: 66, 68 by Nigel Colborn : 21 gardening, by Chris 10 St Valentine’s Day: reader response 9: 17 ‘Flame’ 11: 34–35 x watereri 10: 68 ‘Desert Island Flowers’, Young : 21 5 alternatives to roses, by coir as a sowing/rooting ‘Grace’ 11: 37, 40 ‘John Waterer’ 10: by Mary Keen 11: 23 January as a gardening Lynda Synge 2: 21 medium: Cotoneaster: 66, 69 designer gardens at Les breathing space, by Stuart-Smith, Tom: his with grit 2: 46 apomictic 10: 26 ‘cottage garden’ style, Jardins de Métis, Chris Young : 15 1 experimental private with perlite 2: 46 Quebec, by Rory Stuart Kreutzberger, Sibylle, garden, by Chris Young with vermiculite 2: 45 : 19 and Pamela Schwerdt: 12 3: 15 cold frames 5: 62 CONTAINER GARDENING developments in their gardening temporary gardens: Colesbourne Park, alternatives to busy 59 growing media, by partnership, by John their drawbacks, by Lia Gloucs: its Galanthus Chris Young : 15 Sales : 23, 23 lizzies 5: 35 Lewisia 6: 37 2 7 Leendertz 10: 19 collection 2: 52–56 edible lowers, by Nigel landscape, its untidy gardens, by Nigel auriculas 3: 48 49 Muscari 3: 60 Common Catalogue of bamboos 11: 28, 67 pelargoniums, scented- Slater 6: 19 importance, by Mary Colborn 11: 21 Varieties of Vegetable Erigeron annuus and Keen : 17 clay pots: winter care leaved 12: 53, 53 6 vegetable growing: its Species, EU 2: 73 newly fashionable lawns, low-maintenance, degree of easiness, by 12: 22 pot-bound plants 12: 20 companion planting: its crocks at the bottom of 9: 67 plants, by Mary Keen by Nigel Colborn 2: 19 Lia Leendertz 3: 21 effectiveness, by 12: 17 reader response 4: 16 reader response 5: 22 pots: the beneits, by simple combinations 9: Matthew Biggs 11: 19 Matthew Biggs 9: 17 37 focal points in design, by names of plants, vegetables as perennials, compost: Mary Keen : 19 changes in, by James Dahlia in containers, by strawberries in pots 4: 9 by Lia Leendertz 4: 19 bark 1: 48 front gardens: their Armitage : 21 Ian Hodgson 4: 58 62 76 9 vermin and wildlife, by bins, wildlife in 9: 26 beneicial inluence, by new introductions: Paola Wright 1: 21 Gardenia 12: 40 41 summer bulbs and bracken 1: 49 Helleborus niger 1: 63 tubers 3: 25 Nick Turrell 11: 23 keeping up, by Nigel water in garden features, heaps: attracting and garden visitors: attracting Colborn : 21 Hippeastrum 2: 58 59 use of containers on 8 by Chris Young 8: 17 keeping worms 3: 25 in a smaller world, by response from wet summer of 2012: its Hosta 7: 75 decking 11: 48 51 Conifers, RHS houseplant care in vegetables 3: 62 67 Chris Young 12: 13 David Austin 10: 16 consequences, by Chris Encyclopedia of: a gardeners past: their parks, preserving, by Lia Young 9: 15 winter 12: 27 winter container Comprehensive Guide in periods of drought 6: displays 12: 22 23 presence in historic Leendertz 7: 21 why we plant, by Mary to Cultivars and Species, gardens, by Lia people: their importance Keen 5: 27 by Aris Auders and Leendertz : 19 in the gardening world, 1 reader response 7: 18 Derek Spicer 10: 77 gardening and wellbeing, by Chris Young 7: 17 winter gardening Cook, Sam (botanical by Chris Young : 13 pruning, excessive, by CULTIVATION 6 pleasures, by Lia artist) 3: 79 gardening in schools, by Nigel Colborn : 25 5 Leendertz 12: 19 cordons, establishing 1: 25 see also Fruit and Vegetables panels Lia Leendertz 9: 21 reassessing a garden in Cordyline indivisa, by alpines outdoors : 71 Geranium phaeum : 72 gardens: their beneits later life, by Sir Roy 2 3 Phil Clayton (­e Argyranthemum 7: 45 Gerbera 3: 69 to wildlife, by Chris Strong 10: 21 Garden, Nov 2011, Arisaema 7: 70 71 gooseberries 10: 24 Young 4: 15 reader response 12: 15 pp36–37): reader auriculas : 48 49 Hamamelis : 52 heritage fruit and rules, horticultural: 3 1 response 2: 16 bamboos 5: 32 Hepatica 2: 37 38 : definition 11: 17 broad beans 3: 74 Humulus 11: 28 cornfield annuals 9: 71, 71 Buddleja 9: 59 60 Iris 5: 57 58 Cornus: Camellia 2: 22 Lantana 9: 43 COMMUNITY GARDENING positioning 4: 57 celeriac 9: 38 Lewisia 6: 36 37 see also RHS Britain in Bloom in RHS panel alba ‘Sibirica’ 11: 40 chard 6: 54 Magnolia 4: 39 alternifolia 4: 56 beneits of community report 7: 49, 50 Daniela Jankowska 11: climbing French beans Mahonia 12: 36 ‘Argentea’ 4: 56, 57 gardening, by Tim crime reduction: 52 53 10: 58 59 Polygonatum 6: 64 ‘Silver Giant’ 4: 57 Richardson 7: 47 50 contribution of Sowing New Seeds: an Cornus controversa 4: 9: 67 capitata 2: 33 Britain in Bloom: gardening 2: 10 exotic seeds initiative, 56 Sedum 10: 33 controversa: Transforming Local front gardens initiative by Caroline Beck 9: Cotoneaster 10: 67 strawberries 4: 74 76 by Phil Clayton 4: Communities: RHS in Rochester, Kent, by 50 53 12: 22 23 Viscum 12: 63 64 56–57, 57 Dionaea 11: 60 cultivation 4: 56

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Margery Fish’s 11: 45 Cymbidium Mavourneen 8: 71, 71 courgettes for smaller grex ‘Jester’ 5: 99 dandelion (see DID YOU ENVIRONM ENT outdoor spaces 3: 65 Cymbopogon citratus Taraxacum) courses and workshops (see lemon grass) Daniel, Brigitte KNOW? see also Wildlife panel 2013, RHS 12: 69 Cynara cardunculus (botanical artist) 3: 78 monthly column invasive water plants 8: wildlower seed mixes courtyard garden in ‘Bere’ 3: 46 Daphne: by Mike Grant 76 10: 12 Brighton, Sussex 11: cypress aphid (Cinara cultivation 12: 22–23 National Planning Wildfowl & Wetlands 54–55 cupressivora) 9: 25, 25 bholua: bulbs, and Policy Framework 5: 12 Trust: its Rain Garden, Coutts Skyline Garden, ‘Jacqueline Postill’ 2: tubers deined 11: 17 peat: replacing in Barnes, London 11: London WC2 11: 14, 14 34, 36, 37 chilling requirements horticulture 1: 68 71 74 78 Cox, Martyn, on: Aileen by Roy Lancaster in plants 2: 15 Scoular’s town garden 1: 36–37 reader response 4: in London E4 11: 48–51 ‘Limpsfield’ 12: 16 84–85, 84, 85 perulatus 11: 37, 40 Crambe maritima (see 22–23 climbing methods in duck potatoes 9: 51, 51 Epimedium: sea kale) Darwin, Charles: his plants 4: 15 Dunn, Nick 9: 106 davidii dwarf 4: 67 Crassula: collection of fossil plant dimorphic leaves 12: 13 Dunnett, Nigel: his fargesii ‘Pink D dioecious plants 7: 17 new National Plant slides 3: 9, 9 designs at the London Constellation’ 4: 67 Collection 7: 11 Dactylorhiza: David, Père Armand 5: fasciation 8: 17 Wetland Centre 11: 76–78 leptorrhizum 4: 67 ‘Buddha’s Temple’ 9: by Phil Clayton 5: 82–83 65; 9: 58 movement in plants dwarf vegetable cultivars pinnatum subsp. 12, 12 for garden use 5: 83 Davis, Cath 7: 71 6: 13 3: 63 colchicum 4: 67 helmsii 8: 76 in containers 5: 83 De Pace, Mario (1: 56), on: nectar 9: 15 dye, use of in garden stellulatum ‘Wudang Crataegus: planting times 5: 83 shallots at Wisley 1: 56 reader response 11: water feature 12: 56 Star’ 4: 67 laevigata ‘Gireoudii’ special requirements 5: De Pace, Mario, and 18 dye plants 9: 51 Equisetum arvense 11: 10: 62–63 83 Rebecca Bevan, on: nitrogen-ixing plants 31, 31 persimilis ‘Prunifolia’ foliosa 5: 82, 83 summer radishes 5: as fertiliser 10: 15 Eranthis hyemalis 11: 39 fuchsii 5: 82, 83; 9: 68 84–86 petals, and (Tubergenii Group) Crawford, Simon 8: 98 maculata 5: 83, 83 dead leaves: winter tepals 3: 15 ‘Guinea Gold’ 1: 98, 98 cricket, bush speckled majalis 5: 83 retention, by Mike Grant scientiic names of Eremurus: (Leptophyes Dahlia: 1: 15 plants 5: 21 planting 2: 26 punctatissima), by cuttings 2: 26 deadheading 7: 26–27 winter retention of ‘Jo a n n a’ 3: 34–35 Andrew Halstead 11: 33, in containers, by Ian Decaisnea fargesii 3: 45 dead leaves 1: 15 E Erigeron annuus and 33 Hodgson 4: 58–62 decking in a small space: newly fashionable crime reduction: overwintered 2: 26 Aileen Scoular’s garden earwigs 7: 26, 26 plants, by Mary Keen 12: contribution of planting 2: 26 in London E4 11: 48–51 Dionaea: common (Forficula 17 gardening 2: 10 propagation 4: 26 decomposers 5: 68 muscipula 6: 13, 13 auricularia), by Erskine, Sir Peter and Crinum planting 2: 26 ‘Bishop of York’ 4: 60 Delphinium ‘Dewi by Phil Clayton 11: Andrew Halstead 3: Lady (8: 63): their walled crocks at the bottom of Candy Eyes (‘Zone Ten’) Prieste’ 7: 14, 14 60–61, 60, 61 31, 31 gardens at Cambo Estate, pots: the benefits, by 4: 62, 62 Dendrocalamus cultivation 11: 60, 61 world’s largest Fife 8: 58–63 Matthew Biggs 9: 17 ‘Cherubino’ 4: 62, 62 giganteus 11: 66 fly-trapping (Labidura Eryngium: Crocosmia: ‘Danum Torch’ 4: 62 Deschampsia cespitosa mechanism 11: 61, herculeana) 3: 31 root cuttings 11: 83, 83 planting 2: 26 ‘Dark Desire’ 4: 62, 62 ‘Goldtau’ 10: 52 61 Echinops root cuttings planum 8: 62 ‘Bressingham Blaze’ 9: ‘David Howard’ 4: 62, 62 ‘Desert Island Flowers’, hardiness 11: 60 11: 83, 83 Erysimum Winter Orchid 55 ‘Dream Seeker’ 4: 59 by Mary Keen 11: 23 ‘Akai Ryu’ 11: 61 Echium: 4: 12, 12 ‘Emberglow’ 9: 55 ‘Gallery Art Deco’ design (see Garden ‘Royal Red’ 11: 61, 61 pininana 1: 38–39 Eschscholzia californica ‘Lucifer’ 9: 54, 55 (Gallery Series) 4: 62, Design panel) Dionysia ‘Monika’ 2: 70, as a bee plant 7: 68 12: 44 ‘Spitfire’ 9: 55 62 developments in growing 70 ecosystems, garden: Eucomis: Crosbie, Colin (1: 81; 4: ‘Giraffe’ 10: 56 media, by Chris Young Disanthus cercidifolius improving 5: 72 planting 2: 26 57), on: Happy Single Date (‘HS 2: 15 11: 40 Edern, Edith 1: 41 vandermerwei positioning Cornus 4: 57 Date’) 4: 61 Deverell, Richard (new Disporopsis: Edible Bus Stop initiative ‘Octopus’ 10: 56 plans for 2012 at RHS Happy Single Wink (‘HS Director of RBG Kew) 8: fuscopicta 6: 64 7: 48 Euonymus: Garden Wisley 1: 81 Wink’) 4: 58 10 longifolia 6: 64 edible flowers, by Nigel alatus 11: 36, 37, 40 cucumbers: imperialis 2: 12, 12 devil’s tongue (see pernyi 6: 64 Slater 6: 19 ‘Compactus’ 11: 40 for smaller spaces ‘Jessica’ 12: 70, 70 Amorphophallus Disporum: edible fruits and berries cornutus under glass 3: 65 ‘Julie One’ 10: 56 konjac) longistylum 4: 67, 67; 3: 43–46 var. quinquecornutus wine 11: 88 ‘Ossie Latham’ 4: 62 Diamond Jubilee 5: 89 6: 64, 64 Edulis nursery, Reading, 11: 40 ‘Burpless Tasty Green’ ‘Pat Knight’ 4: 60 patriotic plantings 2: 8 uniflorum 4: 67, 67 Berks 3: 43–46 europaeus 11: 40 10: 47, 47 ‘Purple Cherry’ 3: 10, 10 Dianthus: diversity of crop cultivars, Edwards, Dawn 7: 45 ‘Red Cascade’ 11: 40 ‘La Diva’ 10: 47 ‘Roxy’ 4: 62, 62 ‘Floors Castle’ 9: 9 decreasing 2: 73 Edwards, Pat (1: 50, 52), grandiflorus 11: 37, 40 ‘Venlo Pickling’ 5: 31 ‘Tartarus’ 4: 60 Memories (‘WP11 dividing plants: her National Plant Euphorbia: Cucurbita ficifolia (see ‘Twyning’s After Eight’ Gwe04’) 7: 10, 10 by David Hide 4: 41–43 Collection of Hamamelis its supposed deterrent shark fin melon) 10: 56 ‘Miss Farrow’ 6: 10, 10 frequency 4: 42 at Swallow Hayes, effect on moles, by cumelon 11: 14 damselfly, southern Diascia ‘Bluebelle’ 5: 16, methods 4: 43 W Midlands 1: 50–53 Matthew Biggs 5: 23 Cuphea ‘Regal Purple’ 4: (Coenagrion 16 Dobbs, Liz, on: chard and Einchcomb, Martin, on: reader response 7: 19 12, 12 mercuriale) 7: 33, 33 Diaspora Botanical leaf beet 6: 54–55 Lantana 9: 40–43 cornigera 6: 48, 48 Cupressus macrocarpa damsons: Gardens, Redruth, domestic gardens: RHS elderberry and polychroma 3: 72, 72; hedge dieback 9: 25 and bullaces, by Gerry Cornwall 3: 9 image elderflower wine 11: 87 6: 48 x Cuprocyparis leylandii Edwards 8: 69–71 Dibley, Lynne 11: 114 database 2: 12 Elegia: ‘First Blush’ 6: 45, 48 hedge dieback 9: 25 bacterial canker 8: Dicentra formosa dormant planting 10: 36 capensis 9: 67, 67 wallichii 6: 48 currant, buffalo (see 26–27 ‘Bacchanal’ 4: 122, 122 Douglas, David 9: 44 tectorum 9: 66, 67, 67 Eve, André (6: 51): his Ribes odoratum) pests and diseases 8: 70 Dickerson, Tony, on: soil Draba cusickii 2: 69 Elias, Josie (RHS rose garden in Currie, Ian (12: 48), on: pruning 8: 26–27 conditioners 1: 47–49 Drake, John: award of Photographer of the Pithiviers, , by predicting frost 12: 48 ‘Farleigh Damson’ 8: 71; pendulum 1: 42 MBE 8: 10 Year 2012) 12: 68 Jacky Hobbs 6: 50–53 cushion scale 3: 28, 28 10: 16 (correction) Dig for Victory campaign drought: Elliott, John: award of Evelyn, John: campaign on evergreens 12: 27, 27 ‘Merryweather 5: 92 improving growing Veitch Memorial Medal to save site of his garden cuttings: Damson’ 8: 69, 70 Digitalis: conditions 6: 58–59 7: 12 at Sayes Court, Deptford root, by Guy Barter 11: ‘Prune Damson’ 8: Illumination Pink soil cultivation 6: 59 Elwes, Henry John 2: 54 1: 9 81–83 26–27; 8: 71, 71 (‘Tmdgfp001’) strategies 6: 57–59 Elwes, Sir Henry and evening primrose (see tender perennial, by painted by William (Illumination Series) drupe: definition 9: 24 Lady 2: 55 Oenothera) Nick Morgan 8: 55–57 Hooker 8: 21 7: 10, 10; 11: 19 Drury, Anita (6: 37), on: Emmons, Jean (botanical evergreens: cycad evolution 1: 10 ‘Shropshire Damson’ 8: ‘Serendipity’ 1: 37 Lewisia wall plantings artist) 3: 77 broad-leaved hedges Cyclamen hederifolium 71 dimorphic leaves, by 6: 37 Enkianthus: 10: 24–25 7: 31, 31 ‘Westmorland Prune’ Mike Grant 12: 13 Dryopteris wallichiana campanulatus deposits on leaves 12: 27 cyclatubers 11: 17 8: 71 dioecious plants, by and Nathaniel Wallich, ‘Victoria’ 7: 14, 14 pruning 3: 54 Cymbalaria muralis 9: 16 ‘White Damson’ 8: 26; Mike Grant 7: 17 by Roy Lancaster 11: cernuus f. rubens 11: 37

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at Avondale Park, effects of on clay pots Anderton 2: 52–56 Garden Club of America domestic: their historic London 12: 9 12: 22 division 2: 56 and RHS Interchange role, by Toby Musgrave RHS research 12: 9 prediction formula 12: ‘in the green’ 2: 56 Fellowship 10: 74 11: 44–45 F focal points in design, by 48 planting ‘in the green’, Garden Museum and in context, by Steve Mary Keen 9: 19 fruit (see panel) by Matthew Biggs 1: 17 RHS exhibition on Head 4: 70–73 Fallopia: foliage: preventing frost fruit fly, spotted wing elwesii 2: 54, 75–76 plant hunters 9: 44–45 reader response 6: 14 japonica 11: 31, 31 damage 3: 24 (Drosophila suzukii) 12: ‘Carolyn Elwes’ 2: Garden Organic 2: 73 in the UK 4: 70 as an alien invasive food webs 5: 71 29, 29 54–55, 54 its search for exotic their value to wildlife 3: 16 Foreman, David 10: 98 Fuchsia: ‘Comet’ 2: 56, 76 seed 9: 52 6: 72 Fargesia: forking and splitting in overwintering 2: 26 var. elwesii gardeners (see also by Chris Young 4: 15 angustissima 11: 69 root crops 8: 28, 28 ‘Billy Green’ 9: 40 ‘Maidwell L’ 2: 74, 76 Plantsmen and women Gardiner, Jim (4: 39), on: denudata 11: 68 Forrest, George 9: 44 ‘Dollar Prinzessin’ 5: 35 ‘Godfrey Owen’ 2: 77 panel): their presence early magnolias 4: 34–39 murielae ‘Simba’ 11: 28, fossil plant slides: ‘Lady in Black’ 6: 10, 10 var. monostictus in historic gardens, by Garnett-Botfield, Susan 66, 69 Darwin’s collection 3: 9, 9 ‘¬alia’ 7: 106, 106 ‘Miller’s Late’ 2: 56 Lia Leendertz 1: 19 9: 44 nitida 11: 66, 69 Fothergilla major 11: 40 Fulcher, Richard: award ‘Mrs Macnamara’ 2: Gardenia: Gatti, Annie, on: tulip farming, intensive: its Foxgrove Plants, of Associate of Honour 76, 77 bud drop 12: 41 displays at Ulting Wick, effect on wildlife 4: 72 Newbury, Berks, by Roy 7: 12 ‘George Elwes’ 2: 54 by Phil Clayton 12: Maldon, Essex 4: 44–49 Farrell, Holly, on: pruning Lancaster 2: 74–77 Fulham Palace Garden, ‘Hippolyta’ 2: 56 40–41 Gentiana farreri, painted shrubs 3: 52–54 fragrance in a Cotswolds London: restoration ‘Hobson’s Choice’ 1: 67 cultural problems 12: 41 by Reginald Farrer 9: 44 fasciated Tropaeolum 11: front garden 11: 56–58 project 10: 9 ‘Lord Lieutenant’ 2: 54 feeding 12: 41 Geranium: 19 Fraxinus: Full Frontal community ‘Magnet’ 2: 75, 75 hardy selections 12: 41 ‘Azure Rush’ 6: 10, 10 fasciation, by Mike Grant ash dieback (Chalara gardening project, ‘Mrs ¬ompson’ 2: 76 pests and diseases 12: 41 x cantabrigiense: 8: 17 fraxinea) 8: 10; 10: 16; Rochester, Kent 11: 52–53 nivalis 2: 77 augusta 12: 40 ‘Biokovo’ and Hans Fergusson, Kirsty, on: Le 12: 8 fungi: f. pleniflorus: ‘Crown Jewel’ 12: 41, 41 Simon, by Roy Jardin Exotique et angustifolia 8: 10 beefsteak (Fistula ‘Doncaster’s jasminoides 12: 40 Lancaster 7: 52–53, Botanique à Roscoff, ‘Pendula’ 8: 10 hepatica) 2: 29, 29 Double ‘Ice Diamonds’ 12: 52, 53 Brittany, France 1: 38–43 excelsior 8: 10 bracket, by Andrew Charmer’ 2: 77 41, 41 ‘Cambridge’ 7: 53 fertilisers: Frith Old Farmhouse, Halstead 2: 29 ‘Flore Pleno’ 2: 77 ‘Kleim’s Hardy’ 12: (Cinereum Group) nitrogen-fixing plants, near Faversham, Kent, by chicken of the woods ‘Pusey Green 41, 41 ‘Ballerina’ 9: 55, 55 by Mike Grant 10: 15 Janine Wookey 5: 38–42 fungus (Laetiporus Tips’ 2: 77 magnifica 12: 40 macrorrhizum: organic and synthetic frogs 9: 70 sulphureus) 2: 29, 29 Scharlockii Group 2: gardening: ‘Czakor’ 7: 53 8: 26–27 frogspawn 8: 75 DNA sequencing of UK 77 and wellbeing, by Chris ‘Spessart’ 7: 53 Field Research Facility, front gardens: native species 2: 29 ‘Warei’ 2: 77 You ng 6: 13 x monacense 5: 50 RHS Garden Wisley 6: 8 disappearance of 10: 10; plicatus: as a career, by Alan var. monacense figs: planting in pits, by 11: 45 ‘Augustus’ 2: 76, 76 Titchmarsh 4: 21 ‘Breckland Fever’ 5: Matthew Biggs 4: 17 initiative in Rochester, ‘Colossus’ 2: 54 reader response 6: 14 50, 50 Fiji: new species of Kent, by Daniela ‘Diggory’ 2: 56 community: its ‘Orion’ 6: 114, 114 Medinilla discovered 3: 9 Jankowska 11: 52–53 ‘Percy Picton’ 2: 76 benefits, by Tim phaeum 3: 72, 72 finches: decline in their beneficial ‘Wendy’s Gold’ 2: 77, Richardson 7: 47–50 by James Armitage numbers 12: 29 influence, by Nick 77 in schools, by Lia 5: 47–50, 50 first garden at Chiswick, Turrell 11: 23 reginae-olgae 2: 56 Leendertz 9: 21 cultivation 5: 50 RHS 1: 60 frost: G ‘S. Arnott’ 2: 56; 75 Gardening World Cup foliage 5: 49–50 fish in garden ponds 8: 76 and snow, plantings to Garbutt, Simon, on: 2012 12: 10 ‘Advendo’ 5: 48, 49 Fish, Margery 11: 45 enhance the effects of gabions 3: 66 Anglesey Abbey, ‘garden-grabbing’ 5: 12 ‘Album’ 5: 48, 48, 49 flavours to complement 12: 30–33 gage Reine-Claude Group Cambs: its Winter gardens (see Gardens ‘All Saints’ 5: 48, 49 the season 10: 44–47 by Matthew Pottage 12: 10: 47, 47 Walk 1: 64–67 panel for individual ‘Aureum’ 5: 49 fleece, horticultural 5: 63 48–49 galanthophilia 2: 55 letter from John Sales garden profiles): ‘Blue Shadow’ 5: flies in compost 9: 26, 26 damage: Galanthus: on its design 3: 16 as ecosystems, by Ken 48–49, 49 Florist Holland 3: 69 autumn 12: 49 aberrant, by Nigel unusual fruit and ¬ompson 5: 68–72 ‘Conny Broe’ 5: 49 flower sprout ‘Petit Posy’ spring 12: 49 Colborn 1: 21 vegetables at Paul attracting visitors in a ‘Golden Samobor’ 5: 11: 62 preventing 3: 24; 12: at Colesbourne Park, Barney’s Berkshire smaller world, by 49 flowering lawns: 49 Gloucs, by Stephen nursery 3: 43–46 Chris Young 12: 13 ‘Golden Spring’ 5: 49

FRUIT FOOD GARDENS see also Pests & Diseases and Vegetables panels see also Fruit and see also Garden Design and RHS Gardens panels : curled leaves 6: Musgrave 2: 72 73 Vegetables panels Anglesey Abbey, Cambs: Colesbourne Park, London Wetland Centre: 22 23 melons, supporting 7: crops as culinary its Winter Walk, by Gloucs: its Galanthus its Rain Garden, by autumn planting: soft 27, 27 seasonal Simon Garbutt 1: 64 67 collection, by Stephen Richard Sneesby 11: and bush fruit 10: 40 North East Wales complements, letter from John Sales Anderton 2: 52 56 74 78 berries, hybrid: training Orchards Initiative 3: 10 by Nigel Slater on its design 3: 16 gardens in small spaces Raworth, Jenny and 6: 22 23 Physalis as crop plants, 10: 44 47 Cambo Estate walled 11: 43 58 Richard: their garden in cordons, establishing 1: by John and Shirley edible lowers, by gardens, Fife, by Jo Godfrey, Annie: her Twickenham, by Nigel 25 Murrell 11: 70 71 Nigel Slater 6: 19 Whittingham 8: 58 63 Hertfordshire garden, Colborn 6: 30 34 crops: pruning outdoor lemon grass 9: 25, 25 Dyryn Fernant, by Naomi Slade 8: McNeil Wilson, Judy and as culinary seasonal grapevines 11: 26 27 mushrooms, button Fishguard, 30 33 John: their garden at complements, by splitting 5: 35; 7: 24, 24 (Agaricus bisporus): Pembrokeshire, by Hidden Valley Gardens, Chestnut Farm, Holt, Nigel Slater 10: 44 47 strawberries: growing at home Noel Kingsbury 10: Par, Cornwall, by Norfolk, by Tim Ingram for the drier east and 60-day 4: 26 27, 75 11: 27 54 57 Sorcha Hitchcox 8: 2: 30 34 colder north 3: 28 extending cropping Physalis fruits 11: Easton Walled Gardens 47 49 Stuart-Smith, Tom and damsons: times, by John 70 71 near Grantham, Lincs, Kreutzberger, Sibylle, Sue: their Hertfordshire and bullaces, by Gerry Handford 4: 74 76 Sowing New Seeds: by Bunny Guinness 7: and Pamela Schwerdt: garden, by Andrew Edwards 8: 69 71 thinning fruit 8: 26 27 an exotic seeds 54 59 their Cotswolds garden, Wilson 3: 32 38 pruning 8: 26 27 types of fruit 9: 24 25 initiative, by Eve, André: his rose by Andrew Lawson 7: Strong, Judith and fruit trees: when to unusual, at Paul Barney’s Caroline Beck garden in Pithiviers, 34 38 Michael: their south harvest 10: 22 Berkshire nursery, by 9: 50 53 France, by Jacky Hobbs Le Jardin Exotique et London garden, by gooseberries: Simon Garbutt 3: 43 46 wines: unusual plants 6: 50 53, 51 Botanique à Rosco, Vanessa Berridge 5: cultivation 10: 24 wines: unusual plants for home brews, Frith Old Farmhouse, Brittany, France, by 75 77 heritage fruit and for home brews, by by Susanne Masters near Faversham, Kent, Kirsty Fergusson 1: Ulting Wick, Maldon, vegetables: their Susanne Masters 11: 11: 86 88 by Janine Wookey 5: 38 43 Essex, by Annie Gatti 4: importance, by Toby 86 88 38 42 44 49

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GARDEN DESIGN AND PLANTINGS GARDEN GARDEN see also Container Gardening panel and show reports under RHS Shows HISTORY PRACTICE bamboos for smaller by Bunny Guinness 7: Tom and Sue Stuart- in Judith and Michael Camellia at London autumn planting, by gardens, by Jon Ardle 54 59 Smith’s Hertfordshire Strong’s south shows, by Nigel Toby Buckland 10: 11: 64 69 focal points in design, by garden 3: 32 38 London garden, by Colborn 2: 64 66 36 41 bog gardens 8: 48, Mary Keen 9: 19 planting for a long Vanessa Berridge 5: gardens, domestic: cuttings, tender 4849 garden ‘rooms’ in season 5: 42 75 77 their historic role, by perennial, by Nick borders, summer 8: 49, Richard and Jenny plantings harmonious in Philippa and Bryan Toby Musgrave 11: Morgan 8: 55 57 49 Raworth’s Twickenham with local landscape at Burrough’s Essex 44 45 frost, by Matthew colour combinations at garden, by Nigel Christina Shand and garden, by Annie heritage fruit and Pottage 12: 48 49 Hidden Valley Gardens, Colborn 6: 30 34 David Allum’s Gatti 4: 44 49 vegetables: their lawns: discoloured Par, Cornwall, by Sorcha Godfrey, Annie: her Pembrokeshire garden, Wareham, Anne, and importance, by Toby patches 4: 24 Hitchcox 8: 47 49 Hertfordshire garden by Noel Kingsbury 10: Charles Hawes: their Musgrave 2: 72 73 peat, sowing without, colour-theming and late- designed without a 54 57 use of plants for visual plant-hunters: an by Nick Morgan 2: season plantings at lawn 8: 30 33 sensory plantings in Sue eect at Veddw House RHS/Garden 43 46 Woodbury Cottage, grasses in dynamic Grant’s Cotswold Garden, Devauden, Museum exhibition, pruning shrubs, by Reigate, Surrey, by Val autumn combinations, garden, by Andrew Monmouthshire, by by Lucy Waitt 9: Holly Farrell 3: 52 54 Bourne 9: 32 37 by Martin Hughes- Lawson 11: 56 58 Chris Young 12: 54 59 44 45 root cuttings: decking in a small space: Jones 10: 49 52 small spaces, ideas for wetland gardens at the Queen Elizabeth, HM: by Guy Barter 11: Aileen Scoular’s garden naturalistic borders at (see Smaller Spaces London Wetland changes in 81 83 in London E4, by Cambo Estate walled panel) Centre, by Richard gardening during good species for 11: Martyn Cox 11: 48 51 gardens, Fife, by Jo spring lowers at Sneesby 11: 74 78 her reign, by Tim 83 design archive, The Whittingham 8: 58 63 Chestnut Farm, Holt, winter plantings: Richardson 5: 89 92 soil conditioners, by Garden Museum, naturalistic plantings at Norfolk, by Tim Ingram at Anglesey Abbey, subscription botanic Tony Dickerson 1: London SE1 7: 10 Frith Old Farmhouse, 2: 30 34 Cambs, by Simon gardens in the 19th 47 49 designer gardens at Les near Faversham, Kent, subtropical plantings at Garbutt 1: 64 67 century, by Ann watering in drought, Jardins de Métis, by Janine Wookey 5: Le Jardin Exotique et at Michael and Brooks 1: 58 61 by Julie Hollobone Quebec, by Rory Stuart 38 42 Botanique à Rosco, Mercedes Homan’s 6: 57 59 12: 19 parterre with pastel Brittany, France 1: 38 43 Cotswolds garden, by Easton Walled Gardens plantings 8: 48, 48 tulip planting Mary Keen 12: 30 33 near Grantham, Lincs, perennial plantings in combinations: in 3: 66 pests 7: 40–41 growing media (see also the dark-edged bee-fly ‘Green Ghost’ 5: 48 Garvinea Cindy peruviana) medium 1: 49 peat): 4: 33, 33 var. hungaricum 5: (‘Garcindy’) 3: 68 cultivation 10: 24 with grit 2: 46 developments 2: 15 earwigs 3: 31, 31 48, 49 Garvinea Orangina Siberian (see Actinidia with perlite 2: 46 peat-free 2: 43–46 green tiger beetle 6: 29, ‘Lily Lovell’ 5: 48, 49 (‘Orangina’) 3: 68 arguta) with vermiculite 2: 45 preparing 2: 44–45 29 ‘Lisa’ 5: 49, 49 Garvinea Summer ‘Broom Girl’ 10: 24 greenfinches: recent replacing peat in green woodpeckers 12: var. lividum 5: 48 (‘Summer’) 3: 68 ‘Invicta’ powdery decline 12: 29 horticulture 1: 68–71 29, 29 ‘Maggie’s Delight’ 5: Garvinea Valerie 3: 68 mildew resistance 12: greens for autumn reader response 4: 17 parent bugs 9: 31, 31 50 Landscape Series 3: 69 24 sowing 9: 26 guava, Chilean (see Ugni puss 8: 23, 23 ‘Margaret Wilson’ 5: Get Your Grown-Ups Grant, Mike (see Did you Gregory, Norma molinae) rabbits 10: 31, 31 48, 50 Growing campaign, know? panel) (botanical artist) 3: 78 Guinness, Bunny, on: speckled bush crickets ‘Mierhausen’ 5: 48, RHS 10: 73 Grant, Sue (11: 56–58, Gress, Anisa, on: Ursula Cholmeley’s 11: 33 49 winner 2011 7: 83 57): her front garden in bringing new people gardens near Grantham, tawny owls 7: 33, 33 ‘Our Pat’ 5: 48, 49 gherkins: Charlbury, Oxon, by into horticulture 4: Lincs 7: 54–59 reader response 9: var. phaeum outdoor 5: 31 Andrew Lawson 11: 22–23 Gunn, Alastair, on: peony 17, 17 ‘Samobor’ 5: 49, 49 problems 5: 31 56–58 plantings in the Itoh hybrids 5: 78–79 Hamamelis: ‘Rachel’s Rhapsody’ recommended for grapes: Olympic Park 8: 14 Gunnera: at Swallow Hayes, 5: 50 pickling 5: 31 growing for wine at Grevillea: as an alien invasive 3: 16 W Midlands, by Val ‘Ray of Light’ 5: 50 ‘Bimbostar’ 5: 31 Wisley 11: 88 ‘Bairnsdale’ 8: 66 by James Armitage 9: Bourne 1: 50–53 ‘Rose Madder’ 5: 48 ‘Diamant’ 5: 31 ‘Fragola’ 10: 44, 45 ‘Big Red’ 8: 66 47–49 cultivation 1: 52 ‘Séricourt’ 5: 50 giboshi (hosta shoots) 7: ‘Orion’ 11: 88 juniperina ‘Molonglo’ hardiness 9: 48 National Plant ‘Springtime’ 5: 49, 50 73 ‘Phönix’ 11: 88 8: 66, 66, 67 in the wild 9: 48 Collections 1: 50–53 ‘Stillingfleet Ghost’ Ginkgo: grapevine gall mite lanigera ‘Mount National Plant pruning for 5: 48, 49 biloba 11: 36, 37 (Colomerus vitis) 11: 27, Tamboritha’ 8: 66, 66 Collection 9: 47, 48 compactness 1: 22 ‘Taff’s Jester’ 5: 50 ‘Troll’ 11: 36 27 rhyolitica 8: 66, 66 dentata 9: 48 x intermedia 1: 50 ‘Variegatum’ 5: 50 Gladiolus: grass snake 8: 75 victoriae 8: 64 flavida 9: 48 ‘Angelly’ 1: 51, 52 reflexum 5: 50 planting 2: 26 grasses: ‘Murray Valley hamiltonii 9: 48, 49, 49 ‘Aphrodite’ 1: 52, 53, ‘Katara Pass’ 5: 50, 50 communis subsp. dividing 4: 42 Queen’ 8: 66 magellanica 9: 48, 49, 53 sanguineum: byzantinus 9: 44 in dynamic autumn grey water, use of 6: 15 49 ‘Arnold Promise’ 1: 53 painted by Lilian Glasgow Botanic Gardens combinations, by Grierson, Mary manicata 9: 47, 48, 49, ‘Au ro ra’ 1: 52 Snelling 7: 21 1: 60 Martin Hughes-Jones (obituary) 4: 12, 12 49 ‘Barmstedt Gold’ 1: ‘Elsbeth’ 7: 53 Kibble Palace 1: 61 10: 49–52 Griffiths, Kaye (2: 71), on: monoica 9: 48, 49, 49 53, 53 Gerbera: glasshouse: recommended late- the alpine house, RHS perpensa 9: 48, 48, 49, ‘Diane’ 1: 50, 50 cultivation 3: 69 crops 3: 63 season 10: 52 Garden Harlow Carr 2: 49 ‘Foxy Lady’ 1: 10, 10 hardy, by Graham mealybugs 11: 31 Gray, Alec 4: 52 69–71 prorepens 9: 48 ‘Gingerbread’ 1: 52 Clarke 3: 68–69 pests, by Andrew Green, Nivea (9: 47): her Grimshaw, John (2: 55), tinctoria 9: 49, 49 ‘Glowing Embers’ 1: Everlast Series 3: 69 Halstead 7: 40–41 collection of Gunnera on: Hepatica 2: 36–39 52 Everlast Carmine sterilisation: sulphur 9: 47–49 grit as a growing ‘Harry’ 1: 53, 53 (‘Amgerbcar’) 3: 68 candles 1: 17 green roofs 4: 73 medium 2: 46 ‘Jelena’ 1: 50 Everlast Honey 3: 10, ventilation 5: 62 at Coutts, London WC2 with coir 2: 46 ‘Livia’ 1: 53, 53 10 Glyptostrobus pensilis 11: 14, 14 with green waste 2: 46 ‘Pallida’ 1: 50–51 Everlast Pink status in wild 2: 10 RHS research into with wood fibre 2: 46 ‘Robert’ 1: 50 (‘Amgerbpink’) 3: Godfrey, Annie (8: 33): using broad-leaved ground elder (see ‘Vesna’ 1: 50, 53, 53 68, 69 her Hertford garden, by plants for 12: 8 Aegopodium H mollis: Everlast White Naomi Slade 8: 30–33 green skills gap 6: 8 podagraria) ‘Brevipetala’ and (‘Amgerbwhi’) 3: 68 Gongora new National RHS steering group 9: 10 groundcover roses, Halstead, Andrew, on: ‘Pallida’, painted by Garvinea Series 3: 69 Plant Collection 7: 11 green space: new pruning 9: 29 blue tits 1: 29, 29 Graham Stuart Garvinea Brandy 3: 68 gooseberries: guidance on planning Groves, Madeleine: bracket fungi 2: 29, 29 ¬omas 1: 19 Garvinea Catherine 3: AGM plants 10: 24 decisions 9: 8 award of MBE 8: 10 common lizard 5: 37, 37 vernalis ‘Sandra’ 11: 37, 68 Cape (see Physalis green waste as a growing growing bags, vegetables controlling glasshouse 40

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Hampton Court Palace Käthchen’ 8: 36, 37 63 Hidden Valley Gardens, damage 7: 28 Dactylorhiza plantings Flower Show, RHS (see ‘Flammenrad’ 8: 36, 36 Harvington hybrids Par, Cornwall, by Sorcha its origins 12: 29 5: 83 RHS Shows panel) ‘Gartensonne’ 8: 39 1: 63 Hitchcox 8: 47–49, 48 horsetail (see Equisetum hyacinth, grape (see Hancock, Arthur James ‘Indianersommer’ 8: 39 ‘Potter’s Wheel’ 1: 63 Hide, David, on: dividing arvense) Muscari) (obituary) 5: 16, 16 ‘Kanaria’ 8: 39 (Rodney Davey plants 4: 41–43 Horticultural Hyacinthoides: Handford, John, on: ‘Königstiger’ 8: 39 Marbled Group) Hillier, Sir Harold, Group (Hortax) 9: 21 bluebell identification extending strawberry ‘Kugelsonne’ 8: 39 ‘’s Red’ 2: 10, 10 research into 5: 22, 22 horticulture: 4: 31 cropping times 4: 74–76 ‘Kupferziegel’ 8: 39 ‘Silver Dollar’ 2: 60, 61, Himalayacalamus and ecology, reconciling, hispanica 4: 31, 31 hanging baskets: ‘Lambada’ 8: 39 63 falconeri 11: 69 by Nigel Colborn 7: 23 x massartiana 4: 31, 31 vegetables 3: 66 ‘Margot’ 8: 36, 37 x sternii 2: 61, 63 Hippeastrum: reader response 9: 16 non-scripta 4: 31, 31 hardening off, by ‘Moerheim Beauty’ 8: Blackthorn Group 2: by Phil Clayton 2: 58–59 as a career: Hyacinthus: Matthew Biggs 5: 61–63 36, 37 60, 60, 63 choosing 2: 59 by Alan Titchmarsh orientalis: hardiness ratings, new ‘Ragamuffin’ 8: 36, 37, ‘Boughton Beauty’ 2: feeding 2: 59 4: 21 ‘Chicago’ 11: 19; 12: RHS 8: 11 38 60, 63 growing outdoors 2: 59 reader response 70, 70 Hardy, Rosy (6: 114) on ‘Rauchtopas’ 8: 1, 36, 36 torquatus 5: 22 potting up 2: 59 6: 14 ‘Royal Navy’ 7: 10, 10; Geranium ‘Orion’ 6: 114, ‘Riverton Beauty’ 8: 36, Henry, Augustine 2: 54 reflowering 2: 59 promoting 4: 22–23 11: 19, 19 114 37 Hepatica: ‘Benfica’ 2: 59 RHS conference on Hydrangea: Harkin, Sean (8: 40), on: ‘Rubinzwerg’ 8: 36, 36; by John Grimshaw 2: ‘Chico’ 2: 59 6: 8 painted by Noriko Helenium at Wisley 8: 40 10: 49 36–39 ‘Christmas Star’ 2: 58 its future, by Mary Watanabe 3: 78 Harlow Carr Medal 7: 12 ‘Sahin’s Early Flowerer’ cultivation 2: 37–38 cybister 2: 58 Keen 8: 20 aspera Villosa Group harmony with local 8: 36, 37 in Japan 2: 38 ‘Lemon Star’ 2: 59 Hosta: 9: 106, 106 landscape at Christina ‘Waltraut’ 8: 39 acutiloba 2: 37, 39 ‘Misty’ 2: 59 by Jon Ardle 7: 72–75 quercifolia 11: 37, 40 Shand and David ‘Zimbelstern’ 8: 39 x nobilis 2: 39 ‘Novella’ 2: 59 containers 7: 75 serrata ‘Momo-beni- Allum’s Pembrokeshire Helianthus: americana 2: 37, 39 papilio 2: 59, 59 controlling slugs and gaku’ 9: 12, 12 garden, by Noel annuus ‘Claret’ 8: 98, 98 falconeri 2: 38 ‘Ruby Meyer’ 2: 59, 59 snails 7: 28, 74–75 Hymenophyllum Kingsbury 10: 54–57 tuberosus (see henryi 2: 38 ‘Splash’ 2: 59, 59 edibility (letter on) 11: 18 tunbrigense: Harvey, Roger 4: 67 artichoke, Jerusalem) maxima 2: 38 ‘Swan Lake’ 2: 59, 59 origins 7: 73 disappearance of his nursery in Bury Helichrysum petiolare x media: ‘Toughie’ 2: 59 planting combinations colony at Nymans, St Edmunds, Suffolk ‘Goring Silver’ 5: 35 ‘Ballardii’ 2: 37, 39 Hitchcox, Sorcha, on: 7: 74 W Sussex 2: 9 4: 66 hellebore black death 2: ‘Harvington Beauty’ Tricia and Peter selecting 7: 73 on: Polygonatum 6: 25, 25 2: 37 Howard’s Hidden Valley ‘Albomarginata’ 7: 72 61–64 hellebore leaf spot ‘Millstream Merlin’ Gardens, Par, Cornwall ‘Allegan Fog’ 7: 75 reader response 8: 18 (Coniothyrium 2: 38, 39 8: 47–49 ‘Big Daddy’ 7: 74, 75 Harveys Garden Plants, hellebori) 2: 25, 25 nobilis 2: 36, 37, 38, 39 Hobbs, Jacky, on: André ‘Blue Mouse Ears’ 7: 73, Bury St Edmunds, Helleborus: compact strain 2: 39 Eve’s rose garden in 75 Suffolk, by Roy as evergreen foliage ‘Cremar’ 2: 37 Pithiviers, France 6: ‘Devon Green’ 7: 75 Lancaster 4: 65–68 plants, by Graham var. japonica 2: 38 50–53 ‘El Niño’ 7: 75 I Hatch, Lucas 9: 74, 74 Rice 2: 60–63 f. magna 2: 38, 38 Hobbs, Richard, on: ‘Empress Wu’ 7: 73 Hawes, Charles 12: 57 diseases 2: 25 pink-flowered 2: Muscari 3: 57–60 ‘Frances Williams’ 7: 72 ice plant (see Sedum) hazel, witch (see downy mildew 2: 25 37 Hodgson, Ian, on: ‘’ 7: 75 ice-age plant 5: 13 Hamamelis) for foliage: planting purple-flowered Dahlia in containers 4: ‘Lucky Mouse’ 9: 12, 12 ideas for small spaces 11: Head, Steve, on: companions 2: 62 2: 37 58–62 ‘Orange Marmalade’ 7: 43–58 gardeners and wildlife argutifolius 2: 60, 60, var. pubescens 2: 38 recent botanical art 3: 75 Ilex: gardening 9: 68–71 63, 63 x H. transsilvanica 77–80 ‘Praying Hands’ 7: 74 dimorphic leaves 12: 13 plants and soils 7: ‘Pacific Frost’ 2: 63 ‘Professor shallots 1: 54–56 ‘Revolution’ 7: 75 x altaclerensis ‘Golden 66–69 ‘Silver Lace’ 2: 60, 63 Friedrich reader response 3: 16 ‘Risky Business’ 7: 74 King’ 7: 17 the role of gardens in x ballardiae 2: 63 Hildebrandt’ 2: 37 vegetables for small sieboldiana crenata ‘Golden Gem’ biodiversity 4: 70–73 ‘HGC Cinnamon var. pyrenaica 2: 37, spaces 3: 62–67 var. elegans 7: 72 12: 90, 90 reader response 6: 14 Snow’ 2: 63, 63 39 Hoffman, Michael and ‘Sum and Substance’ 7: illustration, botanical 3: Hebe ‘Rhubarb and x ericsmithii 2: 60, 62, ‘Rubra Plena’ 2: 37 Mercedes: their winter- 72, 73 77–80 Custard’ 12: 10, 10 63 x schlyteri 2: 39 themed garden at Little ‘Touch of Class’ 7: 74 impatiens downy mildew Hedera dimorphic ‘Bob’s Best’ 2: 63, 63 hybrids 2: 37 Barrow, Gloucs, by Mary ‘Whirlwind’ 7: 74 (Plasmopara obducens) leaves 12: 13 ‘Winter Moonbeam’ transsilvanica 2: 37, Keen 12: 30–33 ‘White Feather’ 7: 72, 75 3: 8; 5: 35 hedgehog recording 2: 29 2: 61, 63 38, 39 Hollobone, Julie, on: Houghton, Andy (2: 59), by Liz Beal 5: 44–45 hedges: foetidus 2: 60, 61, 62, ‘Blue Jewel’ 2: 37 RHS trial of Lobelia 2: on: growing managing 5: 45 autumn planting 10: 39 62, 63 ‘Buis’ 2: 37 48–51 Hippeastrum outdoors resistance 5: 45 broad-leaved ‘Gold Bullion’ 2: 62, ‘Elison Spence’ 2: 37, watering in drought 6: 2: 59 Impatiens: evergreen 10: 24–25 63 39 57–59 houseplant care in busy lizzie alternatives dieback in conifers 9: 25 ‘Sopron’ 2: 63 yamatutai 2: 38 home-brewed wines, winter 12: 27 5: 35, 45 habitats for wildlife 6: Wester Flisk Group herbs: unusual 11: 86–88 Howard, Tricia and Peter glandulifera 71; 7: 67 2: 62, 63 for windowsills 11: 26 honeyberry (see (8: 48), of Hidden movement in 6: 13 use of at Veddw House ‘Yellow Wilgenbroek’ from supermarkets 11: Lonicera caerulea Valley Gardens, Par, Sunpatiens Series 5: 35; Garden, Devauden, 2: 63, 63 26 var. edulis) Cornwall 8: 47–49 44, 45, 45 Monmouthshire 12: 59 x hybridus 1: 67 heritage fruit and honours and awards, Hughes-Jones, Martin, on: walleriana 5: 44–45 Hedychium densiflorum Ashwood Garden vegetables: their RHS 7: 12 grasses in dynamic disease in trade 3: 8 ‘Sorung’ 8: 64, 65 hybrid 2: 33 importance, by Toby honours, awards to autumn combinations improvements in Helenium: ‘Ivory Prince’ 2: 61, 63 Musgrave 2: 72–73 horticulture: 10: 49–52 gardening, by Chris by Martin Hughes-Jones lividus 2: 60, 63 heritage fruit cultivars: New Year 2: 8 Helenium 8: 36–40 You ng 5: 21 8: 36–40 ‘White Marble’ 2: 61, preservation in Wales 3: Queen’s Birthday 8: 10; Hull Botanic Gardens Indocalamus: from seed 8: 38, 40 63 10 10: 9 1: 59, 60 invasiveness 11: 66 in borders and natural- multifidus subsp. Hesperis matronalis Hook Lane Primary Humulus lupulus: tessellatus 11: 69 istic plantings 8: 38 hercegovinus 2: 62, 63 var. albiflora 3: 34–35 School, Kent 7: 83 cultivation 11: 28 Ingram, Collingwood plant health 8: 40 niger: Hestercombe House, Hooker, Sir Joseph 2: 54 hops for home- (‘Cherry’) 3: 41 plantings at Wisley 8: by Phil Clayton 1: Somerset 4: 11 Hopper, Stephen 8: 10 brewing 11: 28 Ingram, Tim (8: 35), on: 40, 40 62–63, 62, 63 Heuchera: hops (see Humulus recommended spring flowers in Judy autumnale 8: 38 feeding 1: 63 rust (Puccinia lupulus) cultivars 11: 28 and John McNeil ‘Biedermeier’ 8: 39 in pots 1: 63 heucherae) 6: 23, 23 hormone rooting ‘Golden Tassels’ 11: 28 Wilson’s garden at bigelovii 8: 38 named seed strains ‘Delta Dawn’ 7: 14, 14 powders 8: 29 Hunt, Leigh (11: 45), on: Chestnut Farm, Holt, ‘Chipperfield Orange’ 1: 63 x Heucherella ‘Sunrise horse chestnut: conserving suburban Norfolk 2: 30–34 8: 39 planting partners 1: Falls’ 5: 16, 16 leaf blotch 7: 28, 28 gardens 11: 45 Yucca whipplei 8: 35, 35 ‘El Dorado’ 8: 36, 36 63 Hewitt-Cooper, Nigel (11: leaf miner (Cameraria Hunt, Terry, on: Arisaema insect life at RHS Garden ‘Feuersiegel’ 8: 39 preferred sites 1: 63 61), on: the Venus’ fly ohridella) 7: 28 7: 71 Wisley, monitoring 3: ‘Flammendes Blackthorn Group 1: trap’s mechanism 11: 61 control 1: 16–17; 2: 9 Hutchings, Jeff (5: 83), on: 70–72

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INTER ‘Flirting Again’ 5: 59, 59 JOBS TO DO Kingsbury, Noel, on: ROY LANCASTER ‘Fritillary Flight’ 5: 56, plantings harmonious NATIONAL 56 January 1: 23 with local landscape at monthly contributor ‘George’ 1: 31, 33, 34 February 2: 23 Christina Shand and (2: 74; 4: 65; 6: 45, 47; 8: 66) GARDENING germanica 5: 54 March 3: 23 David Allum’s Alan Postill and Daphne Geranium Les Jardins de Métis, from Redouté’s Les April 4: 25 Pembrokeshire garden bholua ‘Jacqueline x cantabrigiense Quebec, by Rory Liliacées 5: 25 May 5: 29 10: 54–57 Postill’ 1: 36 37 ‘Biokovo’ and Hans Stuart 12: 19 ‘Gordon’ 1: 30, 33 June 6: 21 Kniphofia thomsonii Breezy Knees Nursery Simon 7: 52 53 Eve, André: his rose histrioides: July 7: 25 var. thomsonii 8: 65, 66 and Gardens, Warthill, Harveys Garden Plants, garden in Pithiviers, ‘Angel’s Tears’ 1: 33 August 8: 25 knot garden 6: 32 York 6: 45 48 Bury St Edmunds, France, by Jacky ‘Lady Beatrix September 9: 23 knotweed, Japanese (see Charles Sargent and Suolk 4: 65 68 Hobbs 6: 50 53, 51 Stanley’ 1: 31, 33 October 10: 23 Fallopia japonica) Prunus sargentii 3: Lower Kenneggy Le Jardin Exotique et ‘Major’ 1: 33 November 11: 25 kohlrabi: 40 41 Nurseries, Penzance, Botanique à Rosco, ‘J.S. Dijt’ 1: 31, 32, 33 December 12: 21 as a ‘catch crop’ 5: 31 Chris Pattison’s nursery Cornwall 8: 64 67 Brittany, France, by ‘Jane Phillips’ 5: 54 ‘White Vienna’ 2: 72 in Pendock, Gloucs 10: Mahonia 12: 34 38 Kirsty Fergusson 1: japonica ‘Variegata’ 4: Komarov, Vladimir, and 62 65 Nathaniel Wallich and 38 43 66, 68 Cotoneaster 10: 66–69 komarowii, by Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ and Dryopteris wallichiana ‘Joyce’ 1: 31 judging at RHS Shows 2: Roy Lancaster 5: 64–65, Alan Bloom 9: 54 55 11: 84 85 ‘Jungle Shadows’ 5: 57, 64–66 65 Foxgrove Plants, Vladimir Komarov and Insect Pollinators 57 Juniperus: Kouwenhoorn, Pieter Newbury, Berks 2: 74 77 Syringa komarowii 5: Initiative, UK 12: 44 ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ 1: communis: campaign van 3: 80 64 65 invasive water plants 8: 76 31, 32, 33, 34 to preserve Scottish Kreutzberger, Sibylle 7: 37 invertebrates: their ‘Katie-Koo’ 5: 56, 56 populations 3: 9 and Pamela Schwerdt: representation in lutescens ‘Campbellii’ pingii ‘Hulsdonk the importance of painted by Elizabeth ‘Mollie Rilstone’ 7: 57 conservation plans 11: 33 5: 58 Yellow’ 11: 12, 12 gardening Smith 9: 19 ‘Mother of Pearl’ 12: 70 Iris: ‘Mary Constance’ 5: 56, juvenile cone 1: 15 partnerships, by John ‘Kolibri’ 9: 41, 42 ‘Promise’ 7: 57 bearded irises: 56 Sales 7: 23 Lucky Red Hot ‘Queen Alexandra’ 6: 20 by Anne Blanco ‘Night Gown’, painted their garden in the Improved ‘¬e Major’ 7: 57 White 5: 54–59 by Jean Emmons 3: 77 Cotswolds 7: 34–38 (‘Balucrehot’) Latin for Gardeners, RHS classification 5: 54– ‘Orange Order’ 5: 54, 54 changes in colour 11: 93 56, 56 ‘Orinoco Flow’ 5: 57, 57 9: 43, 43 Lavandula: colour 5: 57 pallida subsp. pallida Lucky Sunrise Rose angustifolia wine 11: 87 cultivation 5: 57–58 11: 23 (‘Balandrise’) 9: 41 x intermedia ‘Olympia’ planting and ‘Palm Spring’ 1: 30 K changes in colour 8: 12, 12 dividing 5: 58–59 ‘Piste Noire’ 7: 14, 14 9: 42–43, 42–43 Lavender Garden, ¬e, recommended pseudacorus 11: 78, 78 kale: ‘Professor Raoux’ 9: Gloucs: its Buddleja cultivars 5: 54, 56, reticulata 1: 1, 32, 32 cultivation 11: 62 L 41 collection 9: 56–60 57, 58, 59 ‘Sarah Taylor’ 5: 59, 59 ‘Fizz’ 11: 62 ‘Snow White’ 9: 41, lavender wine 11: 87 Border Bearded 5: 57 ‘Sheila Ann Germaney’ ‘Pentland Brig’ 11: 62 Lablab purpureus 9: 52, 42 lawns: bulbous, by Alan Street 1: 30, 33 katsura (see 52 ‘Sonja’ 9: 41, 42 chemical damage 4: 24 1: 30–34 ‘Somerset Blue’ 5: 54, 54 Cercidiphyllum Lacey, Stephen, on: white-flowered 9: 41 cutting height and early: ‘Staplehurst’ 5: 58, 58 japonicum ) autumn colour for cream/pink-flowered drought tolerance, by choosing 1: 33 ‘Stinger’ 5: 59, 59 Kemp, Eddie E (obituary) smaller gardens 11: selection 9: 41 Matthew Biggs 6: 15 cultivating 1: 33–34 ‘Sunny Dawn’ 5: 56, 56 9: 10, 10 34–40 ‘Goldsome’ 9: 41, 42 discoloured patches 4: planting Irish potato famine 2: 73 Kerdilès, Louis 1: 40 ladybirds: montevidensis 9: 40, 24 combinations 1: 33 Isaac, Dawn, on: self- khira 9: 52 common British 41, 42 flowering, at Avondale flower structure 5: 56 seeding plants 3: 21 Kiefer, Helen 7: 53 species 6: 24 ‘Orange King’ 9: 42 Park, London 12: 9 Intermediate Bearded reader response 5: 23 kingfisher 5: 70 harlequin (Harmonia ‘Radiation’ 9: 41, 42, 43 keeping them green 11: 5: 54, 56 Ischyrolepis axyridis) 5: 37, 37; 6: ‘Spreading Sunset’ 9: 24 Miniature Tall Bearded subverticillata (see 24, 24; 7: 11 41, 42 low-maintenance, by 5: 58 Restio subverticillatus) larvae 6: 24, 24 lantern, Chinese (see Nigel Colborn 2: 19; new collection at RHS island beds 11: 45 MARY KEEN seven-spot 5: 37; 6: 24, Physalis alkekengi reader response 4: 16 Garden Rosemoor 9: 8 Ismelia carinata 12: 46 columnist 24; 7: 11 var. franchetii) Lawrence, David: award reblooming 5: 56–57 Isoplexis 7: 10 (2: 21; 3: 19; 5: 27; 6: two-spot 6: 24, 24; 7: 11 Lathyrus odoratus: of OBE 8: 10 remontant 5: 56–57 Itoh, Toichi 5: 78 17; 8: 20; 9: 19; 11: 23; Lamium orvala 4: 67, 68 at Easton Walled Lawrence Hall (previously space-age 5: 56–57 It’s Your Neighbourhood 12: 17) ‘Album’ 4: 67, 68 Gardens, Lincs 7: 57 New Hall) 2: 66 Standard Dwarf scheme, RHS 11: 53 Lamprocapnos performance 6: 20 Lawrence, Sir Trevor 2: 66 Bearded 5: 59 breaking the spectabilis root cuttings sowing 3: 24–25 Lawson, Andrew, on: Tall Bearded 5: 54, 56 horticultural rules 2: 11: 83, 83 ‘Blue Shift’ 12: 70, 70 Sibylle Kreutzberger ‘Alida’ 1: 31 21 landscape, its importance, Chelsea Centenary and Pamela Schwerdt’s ‘Alison Taylor’ 5: 56, 56 ‘Desert Island by Mary Keen 6: 17 (‘Crystal’) 11: 12, 12 Cotswold garden 7: ‘Apricot Drops’ 5: 58, 58 Flowers’ 11: 23 Lane, Anthony: award of ‘Diamond Jubilee’ 3: 10, 34–38 ‘Baboon Bottom’ 5: 57, Erigeron annuus and Harlow Carr Medal 7: 12 10 Sue Grant’s front 57 newly fashionable Lane, Chris: award of ‘Duchy of Cambridge’ garden in Charlbury, ‘Bangles’ 5: 1, 58, 58 plants 12: 17 Veitch Memorial Medal 12: 70 Oxon 11: 56–58 J focal points in design ‘Bedford Lilac’ 5: 59, 59 7: 12 ‘Janet Scott’ 6: 20 Le Gros, Ian (1: 81), on: ‘Bermuda Triangle’ 5: Jankowska, Daniela, on: 9: 19 Lantana: ‘Lipstick’ 6: 20 plans for 2012 at RHS 57, 57 Pippa Rosen’s horticulture’s future by Martin Einchcomb ‘Marbled Purple’ 7: 57 Garden Hyde Hall 1: 81 ‘Blue Note’ 1: 30 collection of climbing 8: 20 9: 40–43 ‘Bockingford’ 5: 58, 58 French beans at ¬e importance of changes in colour 9: ‘Broadleigh Lavinia’ 4: Herbary 10: 58–60 landscape 6: 17 42–43 LIA LEENDERTZ 54, 54 street gardens in importance of cultivation 9: 43 science for columnist ‘Bumblebee Deelite’ 5: Rochester, Kent 11: hardiness 9: 42 (1: 19; 3: 21; 4: 19; 6: 19; 7: 21; 9: 21; 12: 19) 58, 58 52–53 gardeners 3: 19 National Plant ‘ Queen’ 5: 59, 59 Jatropha multifida, why we plant 5: 27 Collection 9: 40 gardening in schools 9: temporary gardens 10: ‘C a n tab’ 1: 30, 33 painted by Claude reader response 7: ‘Aloha’ 9: 41, 42, 43 21 19 ‘Cranapple’ 5: 57, 57 Aubriet 9: 45 18 ‘Calippo Tucano’ 9: 43 gardens in winter 12: 19 the easiness of growing danfordiae 1: 30, 33 Jeffrey, Maurice: award of winter plantings at ‘Calippo Tutti Frutti’ 9: growing vegetables as vegetables 3: 21 ‘Early Light’ 5: 54, 54, 55 Harlow Carr Medal 7: 12 Michael and 41 perennials 4: 19 reader response 5: 22 ‘Elizabeth Poldark’ 5: Jekka’s Herb Farm, near Mercedes Homan’s ‘Calippo White’ 9: 43 making the most of the presence of 54, 54 Bristol: its change of Cotswolds garden camara: allotments 6: 19 gardeners past 1: 19 ‘Flames of Passion’ 5: direction 11: 12 12: 30 33 overwintering 9: 24, preserving parks 7: 21 54, 54 Jewell, David, on: 24

Index 2012 | The Garden 11 Le Jardin Exotique – Mowle

Le Jardin Exotique et Defender Pink 2: 49, 49 36, 38 Maianthemum: 2: 8; 12: 63, 64 Botanique à Roscoff, (‘Defender’) 5: 28 ‘Regatta Blue Splash’ 2: ‘Merrill’ 4: 36, 38 henryi 6: 64 moles, supposed Brittany, France, by Kirsty nepalense 7: 38 48, 48 ‘Mag’s Pirouette’ 4: 36 japonicum 6: 64 deterrent effect of Fergusson 1: 38–43 ‘¬e Torch’ 9: 12, 12 Waterfall Light Lavender ‘Milky Way’ 4: 36, 37 B&SWJ 4714 4: 66, Euphorbia on 5: 23 leaf beet: lily beetle (Lilioceris lilii) (‘Balwalila’) 2: 49, 49 ‘Morning Calm’ 4: 39, 39 66 reader response 7: 19 and chard, by Liz Dobbs 5: 28, 28 loganberry, training 6: 22 officinalis painted by racemosum 6: 64 Molinia caerulea 6: 54–55 Lindley Hall 2: 66 London Orchard Project Caroline Maria tatsienense 6: 64, 64 subsp. arundinacea cultivation 6: 54 Lindley Library (see RHS) 11: 11 Applebee 4: 19 ‘Making Space for ‘Windspiel’ 10: 52 harvesting 6: 54 Linnaeus 1: 60 London Wetland Centre: ‘Peter Dummer’ 4: 38 Nature’ report 4: 72 Moore, Niall (Head of GB RHS trial 6: 55 his binomial system 5: its Rain Garden, by ‘Pristine’ 4: 36, 38 : Non-Native Species ‘Green Wave’ 6: 55, 55 21 Richard Sneesby 11: ‘Rose Marie’ 4: 39 domestica (see apple) Secretariat at Fera): leafmould 1: 49 Liquidambar: 74–78 ‘Royal ’ 4: 39 hupehensis 3: 72, 72 response to David making 10: 29 acalycina 10: 65 Lonicera: sargentiana 3: 41, 41 tschonoskii 11: 37, 39 Pearman’s remarks on learning from nature, by styraciflua caerulea var. edulis 3: x soulangeana 4: 28, Malvern Spring Gardening alien plants (­e Andrew Salisbury 6: ‘Worplesdon’ 11: 114, 43–44 34, 36, 38 Show 2012 7: 11 Garden, Dec 2011, p19) 69–72 114 x purpusii ‘Winter ‘Lennei Alba’ 4: 36 Manchester Botanic 3: 16 leatherjackets: nematode Liriodendron tulipifera Beauty’ 2: 106, 106 ‘Rustica Rubra’ 4: 36 Garden 1: 58–59, 59, 60 Morgan, Nick (12: 41), on: control 8: 24, 24 ‘Aureomarginatum’ 10: Lophomyrtus National ‘Triumphans’ 4: 36, mangetout ‘Shiraz’ 2: 10, gardenia problems 12: leaves, dimorphic, by 63 Plant Collection 10: 9 37 10 41 Mike Grant 12: 13 Little Barrow, Stow-on- Loranthaceae taxonomy ‘Star Wars’ 4: 36, 36 Manglietia 4: 35 sowing without peat 2: Leeds, Rod 4: 122 the-Wold, Gloucs: 12: 64 stellata 4: 36, 39 Manipur ‘in bloom’ 43–46 Legoff, Alain 1: 42 Michael and Mercedes Loranthus europaeus 12: ‘Centennial’ 4: 36, 38 (letter) 5: 22 tender perennial lemon balm wine 11: 87 Hoffman’s garden, by 64, 64 ‘Jane Platt’ 4: 36 manure: cuttings 8: 55–57 lemon grass 9: 25, 25 Mary Keen 12: 30–33 Loudon, John Claudius 2: ‘Scented Silver’ 4: contaminated with Morina longifolia 2: 71, 71 Lenten rose (see Liverpool Botanic Garden 64; 11: 44 36, 37 weedkiller: update 2: moss(es) 2: 24 Helleborus x hybridus) 1: 58, 60, 61, 61 Low Value Consignment x veitchii ‘Columbus’ 4: 24–25 controlling on lawns 11: Les Jardins de l’Avenir, Palm House 1: 61 Relief 6: 9 36, 37 rotted 1: 49 24 by Achille Duchêne: lizard, common (Zootaca Lower Kenneggy virginiana 4: 35 maple (see Acer) fire (Ceratadon presentation to RHS vivipara), by Andrew Nurseries, Penzance, magnolia (see marguerite (see purpureus) 2: 24, 24 Lindley Library 1: 75 Halstead 5: 37, 37 Cornwall, by Roy Schisandra chinensis) Argyranthemum) pointed spear Les Jardins de Métis, Lobelia: Lancaster 8: 64–67 Mahonia: Marsh Horticultural (Calliergonella Quebec: designer for bedding 2: 48–51 Luma National Plant autumn flowering 12: Science Award 2011 2: 81 cuspidata) 2: 24, 24 gardens at, by Rory RHS trial, by Julie Collection 10: 9 37–38 Maruyama, Kimiyo silver (Bryum Stuart 12: 19 Hollobone 2: 48–51 Lychnis flos-jovis ‘Peggy’ by Roy Lancaster 12: (botanical artist) 3: 79 argenteum) 2: 24, 24 lettuce: erinus 6: 46–47 34–38 Massey, John (1: 63; 2: 37), springy turf ‘Grise Maraîchère’ 10: 46 AGM plants 2: 51 Lysichiton americanus cultivation 12: 36 on: named seed strains (Rhytidiadelphus ‘Maikönig’ 10: 46 hardiness 2: 50 as an alien invasive 3: 16 pruning 12: 23 of Helleborus niger 1: 63 squarrosus) 2: 24, 24 Leucanthemum in baskets 2: 50 Lythrum salicaria 11: 78, winter/spring Masters, Susanne, on: (s): x superbum ‘T.E. Killin’ planting ideas 2: 51 78 flowering 12: 36–37 unusual home-made plants for 7: 66–69 8: 14 summer care 2: 51 acanthifolia 12: 37 wines 11: 86–88 population, effect of Lewisia: Blue Star (‘Wesstar’) aquifolium 12: 35, 37 McAllister, Hugh: award wet summer on 10: 31 by Phil Clayton 6: 36–37 2: 48, 48 ‘Apollo’ 12: 37 of Veitch Memorial trap 9: 70 cultivation 6: 36–37 Ocean Pink 2: 49, 49 ‘Atropurpurea’ 12: 36 Medal 7: 12 barberry carpet in containers 6: 37 Purple Star ‘Green Ripple’ 12: 37 McConnell, Beverley: ( berberata) wall plantings 6: 37 (‘Wespurstar’) 2: eurybracteata 12: 34, award of Veitch 7: 68, 68 Ashwood Carousel 49, 49, 51 36, 38 Memorial Medal 7: 12 elephant hawk hybrids 6: 37, 37 ‘Richardsonii’ 2: 48, M subsp. ganpinensis McFarlane, Basil 9: 53, 53 (Deilephila elpenor) columbiana 6: 36 48, 50 ‘Soft Caress’ 12: 34, McGhee, Clare (botanical 7: 69, 69; 8: 52, 52 cotyledon: Techno Heat Trailing magnesium deficiency 38 artist) 3: 79 gypsy (Lymantria ‘Ashwood Ruby’ 6: Light Blue Improved 6: 24, 24; 7: 24, 24 gracilipes 12: 34, 35, McNeil Wilson, Judy (2: dispar) 10: 16, 16 37, 37 (‘Lobstrahob’) 2: Magnolia: 37, 38 32) and John: their horse chestnut leaf- Ashwood strain 6: 48, 48, 51 best new cultivars 4: 39 japonica 12: 34, 35, 36 garden at Chestnut Farm, mining (see Aesculus) 36–37 Techno Heat Trailing breeding 4: 39 x media 12: 35, 36, 38 Holt, Norfolk 2: 30–34 oak processionary hybrids 6: 36 White Improved cultivation 4: 39 ‘Buckland’ 12: 34, meadowland for wildlife (­aumetopoea rediviva 6: 37 (‘TecHewhitt’) 2: early, by Jim Gardiner 35, 38 6: 70 processionea) 9: 9 tweedyi 6: 36 48, 48 4: 34–39 ‘Charity’ 12: 34, 35, 38 mealybug 7: 41, 41; 11: 31 palm borer Leyland cypress (see Waterfall Blue pruning 4: 28, 39 ‘Charity’s Sister’ 12: Medinilla (Paysandisia archon) x Cuprocyparis (‘Balobwablu’) 2: 51 ‘Apollo’ 4: 36, 37 1, 34 matasawalevu 3: 9, 9 12: 9 leylandii) Waterfall Blue Ice 2: ‘Atlas’ 4: 36, 37 ‘Lionel Fortescue’ 12: medlars: when to harvest pea (Cydia nigricana) Ligularia ‘Little Rocket’ 49, 49 Black Tulip (‘Jurmag1’) 34, 35, 38 10: 22 8: 27, 27 11: 78, 78 Waterfall Deep Blue 4: 36, 38 ‘Underway’ 1: 98, 98 Melissa officinalis wine puss (Cerura vinula): Lilium: with Eye 2: 51 ‘Blushing Belle’ 4: 39 ‘Winter Sun’ 12: 36, 11: 87 by Andrew Halstead lily beetle tolerance 5: Waterfall Light Blue ‘Burgundy Star’ 4: 39, 39 38 melons, supporting 7: 27, 8: 23, 23 28 with Eye 2: 51 ‘Caerhays Belle’ 4: 39 napaulensis 12: 34, 37 27 larva 8: 23 planting 2: 26 Hot Blue (‘Wesloblue’) campbellii 4: 1, 39 nervosa 12: 34, 35, 35, Michelia 4: 35 scarce burnished brass ‘Darjeeling’ 4: 37 37 Miller, Diana M, on: ( chryson) denudata 4: 35 nitens 12: 34, 38 scented-leaved 7: 68, 68 LIVING GARDENS SERIES ‘F.J. Williams’ 4: 39 ‘Cabaret’ 12: 36 pelargoniums 12: 50–53 striped lychnis see also Environment, Wildlife panels Fairy Blush (‘Micjur01’) oiwakensis: Mimosa pudica 6: 13 (Shargacucullia 2: 10, 10 subsp. lomariifolia mini tunnels 5: 63 lychnitis; larva) 7: 69, Part 1: Plants for Bugs nature, by Andrew Felix Jury (‘Jurmag2’) 4: 12: 34, 35, 36, 37–38, miniaturised vegetables 69 project, by Helen Salisbury 6: 69 72 36, 38 37 3: 67 white satin (Leucoma Bostock 3: 70 72 Part 4: plants and soils, ‘Galaxy’ 4: 37 var. tenuifoliola mirabelles 10: 47 salicis; larva) 7: 68, 68 Part 2: by Steve Head 7: 66 69 ‘Genie’ 4: 39 12: 34, 38, 38 Miscanthus sinensis: mouse, wood 4: 71; 5: 72 gardens as Part 5: water for wildlife, grandiflora ‘Exmouth’ pallida 12: 35, 37 ‘Ferner Osten’ 10: 52 movement in plants, by ecosystems, by Ken by Jeremy Biggs 8: 7: 106, 106 pinnata 12: 37 ‘Silberfeder’ 7: 53 Mike Grant 6: 13 Thompson 5: 68 72 72 76 ‘J.C. Williams’ 4: 39 polyodonta 12: 34 mistle thrushes (Turdus ‘Moving Up, Growing On’ gardens in context, by Part 6: gardeners and kobus 4: 36 pumila 12: 35 viscivorus) and (report on special Steve Head 4: 70 73 wildlife gardening, by ‘Norman Gould’ 4: 36 russellii 12: 34, 38, 38 mistletoe 12: 63, 63 educational needs and reader response 6: Steve Head, Andrew ‘Wisley Star’ 4: 36 x savilliana 12: 38 mistletoe (see Viscum; gardening) 4: 12 14 Salisbury and Helen liliiflora ‘Rave n’ 4: 39 x wagneri 12: 36, 37 also Arceuthobium, Mowle, ¬e, Ludham, Part 3: learning from Bostock 9: 68 71 x loebneri 4: 36 ‘Moseri’ 12: 35, 37 Loranthus) Norfolk: its collection of ‘Leonard Messel’ 4: ‘Pinnacle’ 12: 35, 37 Mistletoe League Project Gunnera 9: 47–49

12 The Garden | Index 2012 Mules – Pelargonium tomentosum

Mules, Stephen (Lower glazioviana 8: 51 ‘Cutie’ 6: 10, 10 pear(s): Kenneggy Nurseries, NATIONAL PLANT Lemon Drop delavayi var. delavayi harvesting 10: 22 Penzance) 8: 64, 66 (‘Innoeno131’) 8: 52 f. lutea 5: 30 rust Murrell, John and Shirley, COLLECTIONS macrocarpa 8: 50, 52 ‘Garden Treasure’ 5: 78, (Gymnosporangium on: Physalis as crop apples: replanting at Lantana 9: 40 subsp. incana 8: 14 78 sabinae) 5: 32, 32 plants 11: 70–71 Brogdale Farm, Kent 3: Lophomyrtus 10: 9 odorata misapplied 8: ‘Hillary’ 5: 30 survey 5: 32; 7: 79 mushrooms, button 12 Luma 10: 9 52 Itoh hybrids 5: 30 wine 11: 87 (Agaricus bisporus): Argyranthemum 7: 42 Muscari 3: 60 speciosa 8: 50, 52, 53 by Alastair Gunn 5: ‘Beurré Hardy’ 3: 28; 9: growing at home 11: 27 Aronia 12: 9 Myrtus 10: 9 ‘Siskiyou’ 8: 52 78–79 106, 106 Muscari: auriculas 3: 48 Oenothera 8: 52 Twilight (‘Turner01’) ‘Julia Rose’ 5: 78, 78 ‘Conference’ 3: 28 alpine beds 3: 58 Buddleja 9: 56 60 Prunus (ornamental) 7: 8: 52 lactiflora: ‘Doyenné du Comice’ borders 3: 58–60 Clethra 12: 9 11 ‘Woodside White’ 8: ‘Kakoden’ 5: 78 10: 44, 45 by Richard Hobbs 3: Crassula 7: 11 Rosa pre-1900 Gallica 52 ‘Salmon Dream’ 7: ‘Winter Nelis’ 10: 44 57–60 Gongora 7: 11 roses 10: 9 stricta 8: 52, 53 14, 14 Pearman, David, on: containers 3: 60 Gunnera 9: 47, 48 Taxodium 12: 9 ‘Sulphurea’ 8: 50, 52, x lemoinei 5: 78 gardening and alien invasive 3: 60 Hamamelis 1: 50 53 Ugni 10: 9 53 ‘Alice Harding’ 5: 78 invasives (­e Garden, National Plant versicolor 8: 50, 53 ‘Morning Lilac’ 5: 78, 78 Dec 2011, p19): Collection 3: 60 Oke, Geoffrey 7: 106 peregrina ‘Otto reader response 2: 17 ‘Aleyna’ 3: 58–60, 59 Framework 5: 12 newt 5: 71 Old English Garden, Froebel’ 5: 30 response from Niall armeniacum 3: 58, 60 National Trust Plant smooth 8: 75 Battersea Park 7: 10 ‘Yellow Crown’ 5: 78 Moore, Fera 3: 16 ‘Album’ 3: 59, 60 Conservation Centre, Nex, Sally, on: old stems, pruning out 3: ‘Yellow Dream’ 5: 78 peat: ‘Bowles’s Peacock’ Devon 8: 11 increase in sales of 54 ‘Yellow Emperor’ 5: 78 alternatives 1: 69, 70 3: 59, 60 ‘Natural Choice, ¬e’: wildflower seeds 10: 12 Olympic Park plantings ‘Yellow Heaven’ 5: 78 trials at RHS Garden ‘Christmas Pearl’ 3: Government white the disappearance of 1: 9 palm borer moth Wisley 1: 70–71 60 paper 1: 70 botany degrees 1: 13 by Anisa Gress 8: 14 (Paysandisia archon) effects of replacing on ‘Early Giant’ 3: 58, 59 naturalistic borders at reader response 3: 17 onion downy mildew 12: 9 industry 1: 71 aucheri var. bicolor 3: Cambo Estate walled nitrogen-fixing plants as (Peronospora palm pests, new 12: 9 extraction 1: 68 59 gardens, Fife 8: 58–63 fertiliser, by Mike Grant destructor) 1: 24, 24 palm weevil, red Government view 1: 70 ‘Big Smile’ 3: 58–60, 59 nectar: 10: 15 onion: (Rhynchophorus replacing in botryoides 3: 60 by Mike Grant 9: 15 North East Wales ‘Red Baron’ 10: 45, 45 ferrugineus) 12: 9 horticulture, by Paul ‘Album’ 3: 58, 59, 60 gardens as sources of Orchards Initiative 3: 10 ‘Senshyu Yellow’ 10: 45 pansies, winter, poorly Alexander 1: 68–71 bourgaei 3: 60 9: 70 Northumberlandia (land ‘White Lisbon’ 10: 46, 47 performing 1: 26 reader response 4: 17 commutatum 3: 58, 59 plants 9: 22 sculpture) 10: 10, 10 open-ground crops 3: 63 Papaver: sourcing 1: 70 discolor 3: 60 Nectaroscordum nut: definition 9: 24–25 Ophiopogon planiscapus orientale: sowing without, by latifolium 3: 59, 60 planting 2: 26 Nutt, Richard 2: 55 ‘Nigrescens’ 1: 67 root cuttings 11: 83, Nick Morgan 2: 43–46 macrocarpum ‘Golden nematodes as pest Nymphaea ‘Pygmaea orchard developments in 83 Pelargonium: Fragrance’ 3: 60, 60 controls 8: 24 Helvola’ 8: 98, 98 Wales 3: 10 ‘Black and White’ 5: lemon-scented leaves ‘Mount Hood’ 3: 59 Nepeta: orchid: 138, 138 12: 52 neglectum 3: 58, 59, 60 x faassenii ‘Kit Cat’ 6: common spotted (see rhoeas 12: 46 mint and rose scents parviflorum 3: 60 46, 47 Dactylorhiza fuchsii) somniferum 7: 38 12: 51–52 ‘Pink Sunrise’ 3: 59 grandiflora ‘Bramdean’ heath spotted (see parent bugs (Elasmucha origins 12: 51 pseudomuscari 3: 58, 6: 47 Dactylorhiza grisea), by Andrew overwintered 2: 26 59 racemosa ‘Snowflake’ maculata) Halstead 9: 31, 31 repotting 12: ‘Sky Blue’ 3: 59, 60 6: 46, 47 night-flowering 2: 12, 12 Parker, Colin and scented-leaved: ‘Winter Amethyst’ 3: 60 subsessilis ‘Blue O plantings around Marylen: their nursery by Diana M Miller Musgrave, Toby, on: Dreams’ 6: 47 football stadium 11: 11 at Warthill, York 6: 45– 12: 50–53 domestic gardens: their Nerine bowdenii 7: 31, oca (see Oxalis tuberosa) Origanum majorana 12: 48, 45 commercial historic role 11: 44–45 31; 10: 56; 10: 98, 98 Occasional Papers from 44 Parker, John: award of applications 12: 52 heritage fruit and nettle wine 11: 87 the RHS Lindley Library overwintered tender Victoria Medal of in containers 12: 53, vegetables: their new introductions: 11: 94 plants 2: 26–27 Honour 7: 12, 12 53 importance 2: 72–73 keeping up, by Nigel Oenothera: Owen, Jennifer 4: 70 parks: overwintering 8: 28; mushroom: Colborn 8: 21 by Graham Rice 8: owls: Diamond Jubilee 12: 52 compost, spent 1: 49 response from David 50–53 boxes 7: 33 plantings 2: 8 ‘Ardwick Cinnamon’ kits 11: 27 Austin 10: 16 National Plant tawny, by Andrew preserving, by Lia 12: 50, 51, 52, 52 Myrtus National Plant Newell, Karla and Collection 8: 52 Halstead 7: 33, 33 Leendertz 7 : 21 ‘Attar of Roses’ 12: 50, 51 Collection 10: 9 Andrew: their courtyard pollination 8: 52 reader response 9: Parrotia persica ‘Body’s Peppermint’ 12: garden in Brighton, root cuttings 11: 83, 83 17, 17 (fledgling) ‘Vanessa’ 11: 36, 37 51 Sussex, by Pattie Baron ‘Apricot Delight’ 8: 52 Oxalis: parsley: ‘Brunswick’ 12: 50, 52 11: 54–55 biennis 8: 51 tuberosa 4: 12, 12 effect of pouring boiling capitatum 12: 51 caespitosa 8: 50 as a vegetable 3: 44, water into drills, by ‘Charity’ 12: 50, 52 ‘Crown Imperial’ 8: 52 45 Matthew Biggs 3: 17 ‘Charmay Snow Flurry’ NURSERIES fruticosa 8: 50, 52 Oxford University Hamburg 1: 24, 24 12: 50, 51 by Roy Lancaster ‘Fyrverkeri’ 8: 52 Botanic Garden 1: 58 parsnip wine 11: 87 ‘Chocolate subsp. glauca 8: 52 oyster mushrooms parterre with pastel Peppermint’ 12: 50, 52 N Breezy Knees ‘Erica Robin’ 8: 52 (Pleurotus): growing at plantings 8: 48, 48 ‘Citronella’ 12: 50 names of plants: Nursery and ‘Sonnenwende’ 8: home 11: 27 Parthenocissus Red Wall ‘Clorinda’ 12: 50, 52 binomial 5: 21 Gardens, Warthill, 53 (‘Troki’) 10: 10, 10 crispum 12: 51, 52 changes in, by James York 6: 45 48 Partner Gardens, new ‘Major’ 12: 50, 52 Armitage 9: 21 Foxgrove Plants, RHS 1: 74 ‘Minor’ 12: 52 Narcissus: Newbury, Berks 2: OBITUARIES Paterson, Janette (4: 43), endlicherianum 2: 70, 74 77 ‘Jack Snipe’ 3: 114, 114 Cabot, Frank 2: 12, 12 on: dividing plants 4: 43 70 Harveys Garden ‘Rijnveld’s Early Grierson, Mary 4: 12, patio vegetables, by Ian correction 4: 17 Plants, Bury Sensation’ 4: 54, 54 12 Hodgson 3: 62–67 Happy Face Magenta St Edmunds, Suolk ‘Tête-à-tête’ 4: 52 Hancock, Arthur Pattison, Chris (10: 62– (‘Pachafmag’) 11: 12, 12 4: 65 68 P National Fruit Collection James 5: 16, 16 63): his nursery in ‘Joy Lucille’ 12: 50, 52 Lower Kenneggy 2: 73 Kemp, Eddie E 9: 10, Pachystegia insignis 8: 66 Pendock, Gloucs, by Roy ‘Lady Plymouth’ 12: 50, Nurseries, Penzance, National Gardening Week 10 Paeonia: Lancaster 10: 62–65 52 Cornwall 8: 64 67 2012, RHS 4: 80; 6: 8; 9: Ridley, Rt Hon The classification 5: 30 pea: odoratissimum 12: 52 Pattison, Chris: his 75 Viscount 5: 14, 14 herbaceous 5: 30 ‘Early Onward’ 10: 46, 47 quercifolium 12: 50, 52 nursery in Pendock, National Gardens Woodland, Dennis 9: tree 5: 30 ‘Hurst Greenshaft’ 10: radens 12: 50, 52 Gloucs 10: 62 65, Scheme Elspeth 10, 10 ‘Bartzella’ 5: 79, 79 46 ‘Rose’ 12: 50 ¬ompson bursary 12: 9 6263 ‘Copper Kettle’ 5: 79, 79 pea, sweet (see Lathyrus ‘Royal Oak’ 12: 52 National Planning Policy ‘Cora Louise’ 5: 79, 79 odoratus) tomentosum 12: 52

Index 2012 | The Garden 13 Pennisetum – Pottage

Pennisetum macrourum 12: 46 Physoplexis comosa 2: 69 kingianum 8: 18, 18 ‘Jacqueline Postill’, by 10: 50 Philadelphus: 70, 70 Pliny the Elder 12: 62 odoratum 6: 62 Roy Lancaster 1: 36–37 peony (see Paeonia) maculatus 10: 65, 65 Phytophthora: plug plants, growing on ‘Flore Pleno’ 6: 62, 63 plants raised by 1: 37 pepper, Sichuan (see ‘Mexican Jewel’ 10: on Lawson’s cypress 1: 8 4: 28 var. pluriflorum Postill, Jacqueline 1: 37 Zanthoxylum simulans) 65 on viburnum 1: 8 plums 8: 69–71 ‘Variegatum’ 6: 62 potassium, ash as a peppers for smaller purpurascens 10: 65, 65 hedraiandra 1: 8 collection at Wisley 8: ‘Red Stem’ 4: 66, 67, source of, by Matthew spaces under glass 3: 65 ‘Sybille’ 6: 114, 114 infestans 7: 31, 31 70 67; 6: 62, 62, 63 Biggs 10: 17 perennials: Phlox: lateralis 1: 8; 2: 9 fan-trained 8: 70 ‘Silver Wings’ 6: 62, potato(es): for shade 4: 67 maculata ‘O m e ga’ 9: 55 symptoms 1: 8 wine 11: 87 63 late blight 7: 31, 31 herbaceous: dividing 4: paniculata root Pinus nigra subsp. nigra ‘Apricot Gage’ 2: 72 pubescens 6: 62, 63 famine, Irish 2: 73 42 cuttings 11: 83, 83 ‘He lga’ 7: 53 pollen: sibericum 6: 61 for smaller outdoor plantings in Tom and Photographer of the Year ‘Planning for a Healthy gardens as sources of zanlanscianense 6: 63, spaces 3: 65 Sue Stuart-Smith’s 2012, RHS: winners 12: Environment’: guidance 9: 70 64 minituber: how to Hertfordshire garden 68 on green space decisions plants 9: 22 pome: definition 9: 25 propagate 4: 26–27 3: 32–38 Phragmipedium: 9: 8 pollinators (see also ponds for wildlife 6: 70; ‘Lumper’ 2: 73 vegetables 10: 26 kovachii 1: 10, 10 Plant Heritage 2: 73 (see Perfect for Pollinators, 8: 72–76 pots (see Container- by Lia Leendertz 4: 19 ‘Trinity’ 1: 10 also National Plant RHS panel) poppy (see Papaver) gardening panel) Perfect for Pollinators list Phyllostachys: Collections) adaptation in postgraduate studies: Pottage, Matthew (3: 53), (see RHS) growth 11: 66 plant hunters: Aquilegia 2: 9 RHS support 1: 13 on: perlite as a growing aurea ‘Holochrysa’ 11: most prolific 5: 19 correction 4: 10 Postill, Alan 1: 37 cutting back large medium 2: 46 67, 69 RHS/Garden Museum meadow plantings for and Daphne bholua shrubs 3: 53 with coir 2: 46 nigra 11: 66, 67, 69 exhibition, by Lucy 12: 46 with green waste 2: 46 Physalis: Waitt 9: 44–45 relative importance of with wood fibre 2: 46 as crop plants, by John plant names 5: 21; 9: 21 different kinds 10: 29 PLANT PROFILES Person, Daniel 1: 40 and Shirley Murrell 11: PlantBank, Australian Polygonatum: petals, sepals and tepals, 70–71 Botanic Garden, Sydney by Roger Harvey 6: see also Succeed With... panel by Mike Grant 3: 15 alkekengi var. 4: 11 61–64 Argyranthemum, by Hughes-Jones 8: Peters, Louise (2: 76): her franchetii 11: 70, 70 planting for a long reader response 8: 18 Roy Cheek 7: 42 45 36 40 nursery at Foxgrove ixocarpa 11: 70, 71, 71 season 5: 42 cultivation 6: 64 bamboos for smaller Helleborus as Plants, Newbury, Berks ‘Purple’ 11: 71 plants and soils, by Steve relatives 6: 64 gardens, by Jon Ardle evergreen foliage 2: 74–77 ‘Toma Verde’ 11: 71 Head 7: 66–69 species from Vietnam 11: 64 69 plants, by Graham Rice Petroselinum crispum peruviana 11: 70, 71, 71 Plants for Bugs project, 6: 62–64, 63 bearded irises, by Anne 2: 60 63 var. tuberosum (see ‘Goldenberry’ 11: 71 RHS 12: 44 curvistylum 6: 62, 63 Blanco White 5: 54 59 Hepatica, by John parsley, Hamburg) ‘Little Lanterns’ 11: 71 by Helen Bostock 3: filipes 6: 62, 63 Buddleja in the National Grimshaw 2: 36 39 Petunia: ‘Pineapple’ 11: 71 70–72 hirtum 6: 62, 63 Plant Collection, The Hosta, by Jon Ardle 7: Conchita Blueberry Frost philadelphica 11: 71 PlantTracker app (for hookeri 6: 64, 64 Lavender Garden, 72 75 (‘Conblue’) (Conchita ‘Purple de Milpa’ 11: invasive species) 11: 33 x hybridum 6: 61, 62, 63 Gloucs, by Chris Iris (bulbous), by Alan Series) 5: 35 71 Pleioblastus: ‘Betberg’ 4: 66; 6: Sanders 9: 56 60 Street 1: 30 34 Supertunia Pretty Much pruinosa 11: 71 growth 11: 66 62, 62, 63 Cordyline indivisa, by Lantana, by Martin Picasso (‘Bhtun31501’) pubescens 11: 71 pygmaeus 11: 69 ‘Striatum’ 6: 61–62, Phil Clayton (The Einchcomb 9: 40 43 4: 58 ‘Aunt Molly’s’ 11: 71 variegatus 11: 67, 68, 69 61, 63 Garden, Nov 2011, Mahonia, by Roy Phacelia tanacetifolia ‘Goldie’ 11: 71 viridistriatus 11: 67, 69, kansuense 6: 63, 64 pp36 37): letter on 2: Lancaster 12: 34 38 16 Muscari, by Richard Cotoneaster, by David Hobbs 3: 57 60 PESTS, DISEASES AND DISORDERS Jewell 10: 66 69 Oenothera, by Graham ants 6: 27 2627 obducens) 3: 8; 5: 35 clubroot, by Matthew early magnolias, by Jim Rice 8: 50 53 aphids: early spring pests 3: 28 by Liz Beal 5: 44 45 Biggs 12: 15 Gardiner 4: 34 39 Paeonia Itoh hybrids, by black bean 3: 26, 26 earwigs 7: 26, 26 leatherjackets: nematode scorch 7: 27, 27 Galanthus at Alastair Gunn 5: 78 79 fruit 3: 28, 28 evergreens: deposits on control 8: 24, 24 slugs: Colesbourne Park, Pelargonium (scented- apples: leaves 12: 27 lily beetle (Lilioceris lilii) alien 10: 8 Gloucs, by Stephen leaved), by Diana M curled leaves 6: 22 23 forking and splitting in 5: 28, 28 controlling 3: 22 Anderton 2: 52 56 Miller 12: 50 53 scab (Venturia root crops 8: 28, 28 magnesium deiciency coee grounds as a Geranium phaeum, by Polygonatum, by Roger inaequalis) 10: 25, 25 fruit ly, spotted wing 6: 24, 24 repellent 7: 19 James Armitage 5: 47– Harvey 6: 61 64 ash dieback (Chalara (Drosophila suzukii) 12: mite, red spider reader response 9: 50, 50 reader response 8: 18 fraxinea) 12: 8 29, 29 (Tetranychus urticae) 7: 17 Gerbera (hardy), by Rosa (climbing), by beetle: Gardenia 12: 41 41, 41 nematode control 8: 24 Graham Clarke 3: Charles Quest-Ritson Asian longhorn glasshouse pests 7: moths: on Hosta 7: 28, 74 75 68 69 6: 38 43 (Anoplophora 40 41 gypsy (Lymantria snails: Gunnera, by James Sedum for borders, by glabripennis) 6: 9, 9 mealybugs 11: 31 dispar) 10: 16, 16 by Penelope Bennett 5: Armitage 9: 47 49 Christopher update 8: 10 reducing through oak processionary 9: 9 27 Hamamelis at Swallow Whitehouse 10: 32 35 lily (Lilioceris lilii) 5: 28, housekeeping 7: pea (Cydia nigricana) reader response 7: Hayes, W Midlands, by Viscum, by Jonathan 28 40 41 8: 27, 27 18 Val Bourne 1: 50 53 Briggs 12: 61 64 bitter pit 10: 25, 25 grapevine gall mite onion downy mildew controlling 3: 22; 10: 16 Helenium, by Martin blight, late (Colomerus vitis) 11: 27, (Peronospora (letter) (Phytophthora 27 destructor) 1: 24, 24 on Hosta 7: 28, 74 75 infestans) 7: 31, 31 hedge dieback in palm: soil-pest biocontrols 8: blossom end rot 7: 24, 24 conifers 9: 25 borer moth 24 PLANTSMEN AND WOMEN blossom wilt 4: 27, 27 hellebore black death 2: (Paysandisia archon) Solomon’s seal sawly 6: Bloom, Alan, and ‘Jacqueline Postill’, by broad beans 3: 26 25, 25 12: 9 64 Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, by Roy Lancaster 1: 36 37 cabbage root ly 5: 31 hellebore leaf spot weevil, red sooty mould on Roy Lancaster 9: 54 55 Sargent, Charles, and Camellia 2: 22 (Coniothyrium (Rhynchophorus evergreens 12: 27, 27 Bowles, EA 1: 33; 2: 55; 2: Prunus sargentii, by chafer grubs 8: 24, 24 hellebori) 2: 25, 25 ferrugineus) 12: 9 sulphur-free treatments 76 Roy Lancaster 3: 40– conifers, hedge dieback Heuchera rust (Puccinia pear rust for disease 12: 24 Komarov, Vladimir and 41, 41 in 9: 25 heucherae) 6: 23, 23 (Gymnosporangium tomato problems 7: 24 Syringa komarowii, by Simon, Hans, and Cotoneaster 10: 68 horse chestnut: sabinae) 5: 32, 32; 7: 79 vine weevil: nematode Roy Lancaster 5: Geranium cushion scale 3: 28, 28 leaf blotch 7: 28, 28 powdery mildew 9: 29, control 8: 24, 24 64 65 x cantabrigiense on evergreens 12: 27, leaf miner (Cameraria 29 : plant-hunters: an RHS/ ‘Biokovo’, by Roy 27 ohridella): 7: 28 sulphur-free leaf spots 1: 26, 26 Garden Museum Lancaster 7: 52 53, 53 cypress aphid (Cinara control 1: 16 17; 2: 9 treatments 12: 24 downy mildew exhibition, by Lucy Wallich, Nathaniel, and cupressivora) 9: 25, 25 its origins 12: 29 radish problems 5: 31 (Peronospora violae) Waitt 9: 44 45 Dryopteris wallichiana, damsons 8: 70 impatiens downy rhubarb leaves as a 1: 26 Postill, Alan, and by Roy Lancaster 11: bacterial canker 8: mildew (Plasmopara preventive of brassica Daphne bholua 84 85, 85

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understanding frost 12: shrubs, by Holly Farrell ‘Albena’ 5: 85 Reeves, John 9: 44 gardening 7: 47–50 48–49 3: 52–54 ‘Amethyst’ 5: 85, 86, 86 Reford, Elsie 12: 19 changes in gardening powdery mildew 9: 29, 29 timing 3: 53 ‘Candela di Fuoco’ 5: Regan, Gillian and Peter during Queen sulphur-free Prunus: Q 85, 86 (5: 40): their naturalistic Elizabeth’s reign 5: treatments 12: 24 extra-floral nectaries ‘Cherry Belle’ 5: 85, 86 garden at Frith Old 89–92 predators in gardens 5: 70 11: 18, 18 QR codes on Wisley ‘Flamboyant Sabina’ 5: Farmhouse, near Ridley, Rt Hon ¬e Primula: ornamental: new signage (letter on) 7: 18 86 Faversham, Kent 5: Viscount (obituary) 5: auriculas: National Plant Queen Elizabeth: changes ‘French Breakfast 2’ 5: 38–42 14, 14 auricula theatres 3: Collection 7: 11 in gardening during her 85 regenerative pruning 3: 53 Rigler, Russell (10: 39), 49 domestica (see plum) reign, by Tim Richardson ‘French Breakfast 3’ 5: Reginald Cory Memorial on: establishing roses at by Phil Clayton 3: incisa ‘Kojo-no-mai’ 11: 5: 89–92, 89, 90, 92 85, 86 Cup 7: 12 Wisley 10: 39 48–49 39 Queen’s Birthday ‘Hild’s Roter Restio: Roberts, Lesley (3: 49), cultivation 3: 48–49 insititia (see bullace, Honours List: awards to Neckarrhum’ 5: 86 subverticillatus 9: 66, on: auricula displaying 3: 49 damson) horticulture 8: 10; 10: 9 ‘Mirabeau’ 5: 86 67 classification 3: 49 National Plant sargentii and Charles Quercus dentata: ‘Ping Pong’ 5: 85, 86 tetraphyllus 9: 66, 67 Roberts, Teresinha (9: Collection 3: 48 Sargent, by Roy ‘Carl Ferris Miller’ 10: ‘Pink Beauty’ 5: 86 Restionaceae 9: 66–67 51): her unusual edible recommended 3: 49 Lancaster 3: 40–41, 62, 63 ‘Poloneza’ 5: 85 restios: and dye crops 9: 51 types 3: 49, 49 40, 41 ‘Pinnatifida’ 10: 63 ‘Rougette’ 5: 85, 86 by Phil Clayton 9: 66–67 robin 1: 27, 27 auricula: verecunda 11: 37, 39 Quest-Ritson, Charles, on: ‘Rudi’ 5: 85, 86 cultivation 9: 67 Rollinson, Timothy: ‘Ancient Society’ 3: Pseudotsuga menziesii climbing roses 6: 38–43 ‘Sangria’ 5: 86 in pots 9: 67 award of CBE 8: 10 49 9: 44 reader response 8: ‘Saxa 2’ 5: 85, 86 overwintering 9: 67 Romneya coulteri root ‘Joel’ 3: 49 publication of new plant 18–19 ‘Sparkler’ 10: 46 Rhamnus imeretina 10: cuttings 11: 83, 83 ‘Piglet’ 3: 48 species online 5: 14 quince: ‘Vienna’ 5: 85 63 ‘rooms’, use of at ‘Pot o’ Gold’ 3: 48 Pulmonaria: when to harvest 10: 22 ‘Zlata’ 5: 85 Rheum (see also Veddw House Garden, ‘Prague’ 3: 49 rediscovered cultivar 6: ‘Sibley’s Patio’ 2: 10, 10 raised beds: rhubarb): Devauden, Monmouth- ‘Queen Bee’, painted 9 quinoa (see digging versus roots painted by shire 12: 54–59 by Brigitte Daniel 3: ‘Red Freckles’ 6: 9, 9 Chenopodium quinoa) topdressing 1: 26 Norma Gregory 3: 78 root crops: forking and 78 rubra 1: 66 vegetable crops 3: 66 palmatum 3: 46 splitting 8: 28, 28 pruning: Pyracantha ‘Te to n’ 10: Ram, Shadi and Nirmal Rhodocoma capensis 9: rooting powders, bamboo 5: 32 98, 98 9: 53, 53 67, 67 hormone 8: 29 before and after Randel, Colin 5: 138 Rhododendron: roots: flowering 3: 53 Ranunculus reflective as an alien invasive 3: 16 cuttings, by Guy Barter birches 10: 25 properties: research UK invasive hybrids 2: 9 11: 81–83 Buddleja 9: 59–60 into 3: 12 macabeanum 8: 11, 11 good species for 11: Camellia 2: 22 R Raphanus sativus (see Metallica (‘Hachman’s 83 damsons 8: 26–27 radish) Metallica’) 10: 10, 10 pruning and root evergreens 3: 54 rabbits (Oryctolagus raspberry, Nepalese (see sargentianum 3: 41 teasing 12: 20 excessive, by Nigel cuniculus), by Andrew Rubus nepalensis) x superponticum 2: 9 Rosa: Colborn 5: 25 Halstead 10: 31, 31 Raworth, Jenny and Rhodophiala bifida 2: 59 autumn planting 10: 38 groundcover roses 9: 29 radish: Richard: their garden in RHS Encyclopedia of André Eve’s rose Hamamelis 1: 22 as a ‘catch crop’ 5: 84 Twickenham, by Nigel Conifers: a garden in Pithiviers, magnolias 4: 28 cultivation 5: 86 Colborn 6: 30–34 Comprehensive Guide France 6: 50–53 Mahonia 12: 23 problems 5: 31 Red List: update on to Cultivars and climbing: old stems 3: 54 RHS trial 5: 86 endangered wild Species, by Aris Auders by Charles Quest- outdoor grapevines 11: selection 5: 86 conifers 2: 10 and Derek Spicer 10: 77 Ritson 6: 38–43 26–27 summer, by Rebecca red spider mite RHS Flower Show Tatton reader response regenerative 3: 53 Bevan and Mario De (Tetranychus urticae) Park (see RHS Shows 8: 18–19 roots 12: 20 Pace 5: 84–86 7: 41, 41 panel) combinations 6: RHS Latin for Gardeners 42–43 11: 93 pruning 6: 27, 43 PRACTICAL ADVICE RHS Perfect for establishing at RHS see also Fruit, Garden Practice, Pests & Diseases and Vegetables panels Pollinators campaign Garden Wisley 10: 39 (see RHS panel) for hips 11: 40 alpines: cultivation clay pots: winter care 12: identiication 4: 31 pond care in autumn 9: rhubarb: pergolas 6: 42 outdoors 2: 71 22 ladybirds, common 29 as a perennial crop 10: planting combinations ants 6: 27 compost bins, wildlife in British 6: 24 pot-bound plants 12: 20 26 6: 52–53 apomicts 10: 26 9: 26 Lantana camara root pruning and root cultivation 8: 26 pre-1900 Gallica roses: autumn: Dahlia propagation 4: 26 overwintering 9: 24, 24 teasing 12: 20 forcing 8: 26 National Plant bulbs 7: 31 Daphne cultivation 12: Lathyrus odoratus roses, pruning: leaves as a preventive Collection 10: 9 pond care 9: 29 22 23 sowing 3: 24 25 climbing and rambling of brassica clubroot, by pruning groundcover bamboo: deadheading 7: 26 27 lawns: keeping them 6: 27 Matthew Biggs 12: 15 roses 9: 29 cultivation 5: 32 dividing plants, by David green 11: 24 groundcover 9: 29 wine 11: 87 rosehip wine 11: 87 in pots 11: 28 Hide 4: 41 43 leafmould, making 10: 29 seeds, choosing 12: 27 ‘Timperley Early’ 3: 114, trained on walls and bat boxes 2: 27, 27 evergreen broad-leaved lemon grass 9: 25, 25 spring preparations in 114 fences 6: 42 beds, raised: digging hedges 10: 24 25 Magnolia pruning 4: 28 summer 8: 29 Rhus: ‘Albert Poyet’ 6: 52 versus topdressing 1: 26 fertilisers, organic and Mahonia pruning 12: 23 summer bulbs and x pulvinata (Autumn ‘Alchymist’ 6: 39, 41, 43 bee hotels 12: 24, 24 synthetic 8: 26 27 manure contaminated tubers, planting 3: 24 25 Lace Group) ‘Red ‘Alister Stella Gray’ 6: berries, hybrid: training frost damage to foliage, with weedkiller: update sweet peas: Autumn Lace’ 11: 36 38, 40, 41 6: 22 23 preventing 3: 24 2: 24 25 performance 6: 20 typhina 11: 36, 37 ‘Aloha’ 6: 38, 42 birds: feeding in winter 1: gherkins, outdoor 5: 31 mosses 2: 24; 11: 24 tender plants, Tiger Eyes (‘Bailtiger’) ‘American Pillar’ 6: 27 27 grey water, use of 6: 15 nectar and pollen plants overwintered 2: 26 27 11: 36 banksiae ‘Lu te a’ 5: 138, borders: management Hamamelis pruning for 9: 22 trees: Ribes: 138 through the year 1: compactness 1: 22 pansies, winter, poorly not to prune 10: 29 laurifolium 1: 67 Boscobel (‘Auscousin’) 24 25 hardening o, by performing 1: 26 stumps, removing 11: 31 odoratum ‘Crandall’ 3: 7: 14, 14 bulbs, summer-lowering Matthew Biggs 5: 61 63 Pelargonium types of fruit 9: 24 25 45 ‘Buff Beauty’ 6: 42 2: 26 hormone rooting overwintering scented- weeds, woody: sanguineum 3: 72, 72; Carla Fineschi (‘Evepro’) busy lizzie alternatives 5: powders 8: 29 leaf 8: 28 controlling 11: 31 5: 21; 9: 44 6: 52 35, 45 houseplant care in peony groups explained winter container Rice, Graham, on: ‘Climbing Blue Moon’ Camassia naturalising 2: winter 12: 27 5: 30 displays 12: 22 23 evergreen hellebores as 6: 38, 40 24 Humulus lupulus: hops plug plants, growing on worms for compost foliage plants 2: 60–63 ‘Climbing Ena Camellia cultivation 2: 22 for home-brewing 11: 28 4: 28 heaps: management 3: Oenothera 8: 50–53 Harkness’ 6: 42 ‘catch crops’ 5: 30 31 Hyacinthoides bluebell 25 Richardson, Tim, on: ‘Climbing Iceberg’ 6: benefits of community 39, 40, 41, 42

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RHS RHS SHOWS see also RHS Gardens, RHS Science, RHS Shows and RHS Trials panels Camellia at London Hampton Court Palace shows, by Nigel Flower Show 2012: Annual General Meeting Bursaries Newsletter 9: domestic gardens Garden Museum Colborn 2: 64 66 new and interesting 8: 83 76 image database 2: 12 exhibition 9: 44 45 Cardi 6: 10 plants 8: 12 Annual Report and courses 4: 22 reopening 6: 76 Queen Elizabeth: dandelion exhibit 7: 11 review 8: 42 45 Consolidated Financial 2013 12: 69 ‘Moving Up, Growing On’ changes in gardening Chelsea Flower Show judging at RHS Shows Statements 2011/12: elections to Council 2013 (report on special during her reign, by Tim 2012: 2: 64 66 summary, by Elizabeth 12: 69 educational needs and Richardson 5: 89 92, Broadleigh Gardens: Tatton Park 2012: Banks 6: 80 81 irst RHS garden, gardening) 4: 12 89, 90, 92 its four decades of new and interesting Autumn Planting for Chiswick 1: 60 National Gardens RHS and Garden Club of shows at Chelsea, by plants 9: 12, 12 Year Round Colour honours and awards, Scheme Elspeth America Interchange Nigel Colborn 4: review 9: 62 65 campaign 10: 8 RHS 7: 12 Thompson bursary 12: 9 Fellowship 10: 74 52 54 Big Wildlife Garden Get Your Grown-Ups Occasional Papers from Seed Scheme 11: 92 Fringe Festival 6: 9 competition winners 8: Growing campaign 10: the RHS Lindley Library support for postgraduate new plants 7: 14 81 73 11: 94 studies 1: 13 Plant of the Year 2012 Botany Department, winner 2011 7: 83 Partner Gardens, new Sustainable Growing 7: 10 RHS: its work and green-skills gap: RHS RHS 1: 74 Media Task Force 11: 10 review 7: 61 64 purpose 2: 84 steering group 9: 10 peat replacement: the trainees’ graduation Britain in Bloom 2012 2: It’s Your Neighbourhood RHS view 1: 71 ceremony, 2012 10: 77 10; 3: 85; 6: 80 scheme 2: 10; 11: 53 Perfect for Pollinators Windlesham Trophy 6: 80 winners 11: 92 93 Key Investment Projects campaign 3: 72; 7: 67; 8: Young School Gardener Sasa: Britain in Bloom: 7: 83 12 of the Year 9: 74, 74 invasiveness 11: 66 Transforming Local Lawrence Hall and Photographer of the Year palmata 11: 69 Communities: RHS Conference Centre 7: 83 2012: winners 12: 68 S veitchii 11: 69, 69 report 7: 49, 50 Lindley Library: plant-hunters: an RHS/ Sasaella: salads: invasiveness 11: 66 baby leaf 2: 27 ramosa 11: 69 Open Arms for autumn sowing 9: 26 Saxifraga: RHS GARDENS RHS PLANT (‘Chewpixcel’) 8: 18 for smaller outdoor callosa 4: 122 RHS Garden TRIALS ‘Parade’ 6: 38, 42 spaces 3: 64 (captioned ‘Tumbling RHS Garden ‘Reine Victoria’ 7: 61 seed mixes: EU ruling Waters’ in error) Harlow Carr: Argyranthemum, by Rosemoor: Rose des Blés (‘Evebeau’) 5: 12 ‘Karel Čapek’ 2: 71 alpine house: its Roy Cheek 7: 42 45 6: 52 Sales, John, on: ‘Tumbling Waters’ 4: unusual plants, by new Iris collection 9: 8 beans, broad, by Sue Roville (‘Evero’) 6: 52 designs for the Winter 122; 6: 15 (correction) Kaye Griiths 2: 69 71 plans for 2012, by Stickland 3: 74 75 rugosa 11: 40 Walk at Anglesey scale (Coccus Kitchen Garden Jonathan Webster border sedums 10: 34 hip 11: 40 Abbey, Cambs (letter) hesperidum) 7: 41, 41 glasshouse 9: 76, 76 (Curator) 1: 80 Buddleja 9: 58 59 ‘Alba’ 11: 40 3: 16 scented-leaved Main Border 9: 73 Winter Garden 1: 80 celeriac at West Dean ‘Sealing Wax’: historic Pamela Schwerdt and pelargoniums, by Diana with Helenium 8: 38 Gardens, W Sussex, specimen 5: 13 Sibylle Kreutzberger: M Miller 12: 50–53 plans for 2012, by RHS Garden Wisley: by Sarah Wain 9: ‘Sombreuil’ 6: 42 the importance of Schefflera taiwaniana 8: Elizabeth Balmforth Bowes-Lyon Rose 38 39 ‘Sophie’ 6: 52 gardening 67 (Curator) 1: 80 Garden 1: 81; 10: 39 hardiness ratings, Sylvie Vartan partnerships 7: 23 Schisandra chinensis 3: rhubarb collection 3: 87 digital information new RHS 8: 11 (‘Evesylvia’) 6: 52 Salisbury, Andrew, on: 46 point 2: 83 invitation to virginiana 11: 40 gardeners and wildlife school leavers: attracting RHS Garden establishing new roses participate in RHS ‘Zéphirine Drouhin’ 6: gardening 9: 68–71 to horticulture 4: 23 Hyde Hall: 10: 39 trials 12: 9 40, 40, 42 learning from nature 6: schools and gardening, grape-growing for wine Lobelia, by Julie Camassia as path Roscoe, William 1: 58 69–72 by Lia Leendertz 9: 21 11: 88 Hollobone 2: 48 51 edging 2: 24 25 rose (see also Rosa): Salix: Schwerdt, Pamela, and Helenium plantings 8: People’s Choice Courtyard Gardens 8: Christmas (see alba var. vitellina 1: 67 Sibylle Kreutzberger: 40, 40 results 12: 70 82 Helleborus niger) udensis ‘S e kka’ 8: 17 their gardening Mixed Borders 4: 43 radishes 5: 86 Dry Garden 1: 81 Lenten (see Helleborus Salvia: partnership, by John Pippin Lodge shelter 6: plans for 2012, by Ian Le x hybridus) ‘African Sky’ 10: 10, 10 Sales 7: 23 77, 77 Gros (Curator) 1: 81 Rosen, Pippa (10: 58): her x jamensis ‘Javier’ 1: 10, their garden in the plans for 2012, by Colin use of sandy grit 1: Rosa (continued) collection of climbing 10 Cotswolds 7: 34–38 Crosbie (Curator) 1: 81 48 49 ‘Climbing Lady French beans at ¬e napifolia 6: 45, 47–48 science: its importance plum collection 8: 70 Visitors’ Lounge 6: 78 Hillingdon’ 6: 38, 40, Herbary, by Daniela nemorosa for gardeners, by Mary shallots at Wisley 1: 56 wildlife pond 8: 74, 74 42 Jankowska 10: 58–60 ‘Schwellenburg’ 7: 53 Keen 3: 19 (see also RHS ‘Climbing Souvenir de Rosmarinus officinalis Sambucus nigra: Science panel) la Malmaison’ 6: 38, ‘Sissinghurst Blue’ 6: elderberry and scientific names of plants, 40, 43 114, 114 elderflower wine 11: 87 by Mike Grant 5: 21 ‘Compassion’ 6: 39, 40, Rowe, Jeff (9: 67), on: Sanders, Chris, on: Scilla mischtschenkoana RHS SCIENCE 42 restios 9: 67 summer-flowering 2: 106, 106 Botany Department, peat: ‘Coral Dawn’ 6: 38, 42 Royal autographs 5: 91, 91 Buddleja in the National scorch 7: 27, 27 RHS: its work and alternatives: by Paul Dublin Bay (‘Macdub’) Royal Botanic Garden, Plant Collection, ¬e watering in direct sun purpose 2: 84 Alexander 1: 68 71 6: 42, 42 Edinburgh: its new Lavender Garden, as a cause of, by current research 3: 19 reader response 4: ‘Felicia’ 6: 42 alpine house 10: 9 Gloucs 9: 56–60 Matthew Biggs 8: 19 Field Research Facility, 17 ‘Gloire de Dijon’ 6: 42 Royal Botanic Gardens, sandy grit: its use at RHS Scoular, Aileen (11: 50): Wisley 6: 8 trials at RHS Garden Glyndebourne Kew 1: 58 Garden Hyde Hall 1: her town garden in lowering lawns: RHS Wisley 1: 70 71 (‘Harpulse’) 10: 10, 10 correction (­e 48–49 London E4, by Martyn research 2: 81, 81; 12: 9 Plants for Bugs project ‘Guinée’ 6: 42, 42 Garden, November Sarcococca: Cox 11: 48–51 green roofs: RHS 12: 44 ‘Kathleen Harrop’ 6: 2011, p11) 2: 9 confusa 10: 64 sea kale: research into using by Helen Bostock 3: 38, 40 Rubus: hookeriana var. digyna as a perennial crop 10: broad-leaved plants 70 72 ‘Leverkusen’ 6: 38, 42 nepalensis 3: 46 ‘Purple Stem’ 10: 64 26 for 12: 8 research into watering ‘Madame Alfred phoenicolasius 3: 46 orientalis 10: 64 root cuttings 11: 83, 83 impatiens downy regimes 6: 59 Carrière’ 6: 40 Rudbeckia fulgida var. ruscifolia var. chinensis Sedum: mildew, by Liz Beal 5: root pruning and root ‘Madame Grégoire deamii 6: 46; 8: 14, 14 ‘Dragon Gate’ 10: 64 as a butterfly attractor 44 45 teasing 12: 20 Staechelin’ 6: 39, 41, rules, horticultural: wallichii 10: 64, 64 (letter on) 12: 14, 14–15 importance of 42, 43 breaking, by Mary Keen Sargent, Charles: cultivation 10: 33 horticultural science ‘Maigold’ 2: 32 2: 21 and Prunus sargentii, dark-leaved 10: 32–34 for gardeners, by Mary Miss Lorraine (‘Evelora’) Russell, Louis R 2: 12; 3: by Roy Lancaster 3: for borders, by Keen 3: 19 6: 52 12, 12 (obituary) 40–41, 41 Christopher nitida 11: 40 plants named for 3: 41 Whitehouse 10: 32–35

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paler cultivars 10: 34 ‘Xenox’ 10: 34 autumn planting 10: 38 sowing and planting out times, by John (‘Dancop19’) (Copia RHS trial 10: 34 subsp. maximum pruning, by Holly winter vegetables 9: 26 Handford 4: 74–76 Series) 5: 35 ‘Abbey Dore’ 10: 34, 34, ‘Gooseberry Fool’ Farrell 3: 52–54 outdoors 2: 40 in growing bags 4: 76 Swallow Hayes, 35 10: 34, 35 Sideritis syriaca 6: 48 under cover 2: 41 in hanging baskets 4: 76 Albrighton, W Midlands: aizoon ‘Euphorbioides’ subsp. ruprechtii Silene stenophylla 5: 13, with heat 2: 41 in pots 4: 76 its collection of 6: 47, 47 ‘Hab Gray’ 10: 34 13 Sowing New Seeds: an in the ground 4: 76 Hamamelis 1: 50–53 ‘Autumn Charm’ (see ‘Strawberries and Simon, Hans (7: 53), and exotic seeds initiative, by in wall pouches 4: 76 sweet pea (see Lathyrus Herbstfreude Group C re a m’ 10: 34, 35 Geranium Caroline Beck 9: 50–53 ‘Finesse’ 4: 75, 75 odoratus) ‘Lajos’) ‘Vera Jameson’ 10: 34 x cantabrigiense planting 2: 26 ‘Florence’ 4: 74, 10: 47, Synge, Linda (2: 21), on: ‘Autumn Cheer’ (see seed bank, Australian 4: 11 ‘Biokovo’, by Roy speckled bush cricket 47 alternatives to roses on Herbstfreude Group Seed Savers Exchange 2: Lancaster 7: 52–53 (Leptophyes ‘Gariguette’ 4: 74; 10: 47 St Valentine’s Day 2: 21 ‘B e ka’ ) 73 Simons, Andrew, on: how punctatissima), by ‘Mara des Bois’ 4: 75, 75 Syringa: ‘Bertram Anderson’ 10: Seed Scheme, RHS 11: 92 camellia show blooms Andrew Halstead 11: 33, ‘Sonata’ 4: 74 komarowii: 34 seeds: are judged 2: 65 33 Street, Alan (10: 43), on: and Vladimir cauticola 10: 34 choosing 12: 27 siskin 8: 75 Speirantha bulbous irises 1: 30–34 Komarov, by Roy ‘Lidakense’ 10: 34 wildflower mixes 10: 12 Skelmersdale, Christine 3: convallarioides 4: 66 Sternbergia 10: 43 Lancaster 5: 64–65, ‘Cloud Walker’ 10: 32, 35 Selenicereus 114; 4: 52–54, 52, 53, 54 spider: Streptocarpus ‘Harlequin 64, 65 ‘Coral Blush’ 10: 34 megalanthus seed pod, Slade, Naomi, on: Annie garden (Araneus Purple’ 8: 12, 12 ‘Emei Shan’ 5: 65, 65 ‘Crazy Ruffles’ 10: 34, 35 painted by Sam Cook 3: Godfrey’s Hertford diadematus) 5: 70 Strong, Judith (5: 77) and subsp. reflexa 5: 64, ‘Diamond Edge’ 10: 34 79 garden 8: 30–33 ladybird (Eresus Michael Strong: their 65, 65 erythrostictum: self-seeding plants, by Slater, Nigel (10: 44), on: sandliatus) 5: 37 south London garden 5: x persica 9: 44 ‘Frosty Morn’ 10: 32 Dawn Isaac 3: 21 culinary seasonal spinach beet ‘Perpetual 75–77 ‘Mediovariegatum’ reader response 5: 23 complements 10: Spinach’ 6: 55 Strong, Sir Roy (10: 21), 10: 32 sensitive plant (see 44–47 splitting in fruit 5: 35; 7: on: reassessing a garden Herbstfreude Group: Mimosa pudica) edible flowers 6: 19 24, 24 in later life 10: 21 ‘B e ka’ 10: 32 sensory plantings in Sue slowworm 9: 70 spring- and summer- reader response 12: 15 ‘Elsie’s Gold’ 10: 32 Grant’s Cotswold garden slugs: flowering plants Stuart, Rory (12: 19), on: ‘Herbstfreude’ 10: 34 11: 56–58 alien 10: 8 flowering in autumn 1: 17 designer gardens at Les ‘Jaws’ 10: 32, 32–33 sepals: definition 3: 15 controlling 3: 22 spring: Jardins de Métis, Quebec T ‘Lajos’ 10: 32 shade: alternatives to on Hosta 7: 28, 74–75 flavours 10: 46 12: 19 hybridum ‘Czar’s Gold’ busy lizzies 5: 35 in compost 9: 26, 26 flowers in Judy and Stuart-Smith, Tom and Tacca chantrieri ‘Green 6: 47, 47 shallots: nematode control 8: 24 John McNeil Wilson’s Sue: their Hertfordshire Mystery’ 8: 12, 12 ‘José Aubergine’ 10: 32, at RHS Garden Wisley Spanish (Arion garden at Chestnut garden: Tagetes ‘Zenith Red’ 35 1: 56 vulgaris) 10: 8, 8 Farm, Holt, Norfolk, by by Andrew Wilson 3: (Zenith Series) 5: 35 ‘Joyce Henderson’ 10: 34 by Ian Hodgson 1: 54–56 use of coffee grounds Tim Ingram 2: 30–34 32–38 Tamarindus painted by ‘Marchants Best Red’ reader response 3: 16 as a repellent, by greens 11: 63 by Chris Young 3: 15 Aubriet 3: 80 10: 34 from seed 1: 56 Matthew Biggs 7: 19 pests (early) 3: 28 subscription botanic Taraxacum: ‘Matrona’ 10: 34 ‘Golden Gourmet’ 1: 55, reader response 9: 17 preparations in gardens in the 19th dandelion exhibit, RHS ‘Mr Goodbud’ 10: 32, 35 56 smaller spaces (see panel) summer 8: 29 century, by Ann Brooks Show Cardiff 7: 11 ‘Munstead Red’ 10: 34 ‘Hâtive de Niort’ 1: 56 Smallanthus sonchifolius springtails in compost 9: 1: 58–61 microspecies 10: 26 ‘Red Cauli’ 10: 32–33, ‘Jermor’ 1: 54 edible roots 3: 44–45, 45 26, 26 subtropical plantings at Tatton Park, RHS Flower 34, 35 ‘Mikor’ 1: 54, 56 Smith, Lionel: St Valentine’s Day: Le Jardin Exotique et Show (see RHS Shows ‘Ruby Glow’ 10: 34 ‘Pesandor’ 1: 55 his research into alternatives to roses, by Botanique à Roscoff, panel) spectabile 10: 32 ‘Picasso’ 1: 54 flowering lawns 12: 9 Lynda Synge 2: 21 Brittany, France 1: 38–43 Taxodium National Plant ‘Pink Chablis’ 10: 32 ‘Red Gourmet’ 1: 54 award 2: 81, 81 Stachys byzantina: its suburban gardens: their Collection 12: 9 spurium ‘Voodoo’ 6: ‘Red Sun’ 1: 54, 56 snails: use as a green-roof plant history 11: 44–45 taxonomy: its importance 47, 47 Shand, Christina, and by Penelope Bennett 5: 12: 8, 8 sulphur-free treatments to gardeners 3: 19 ‘Stewed Rhubarb David Allum (10: 54): 27 Stapeley Water Gardens, for disease 12: 24 Taxus contorta status in Mountain’ 10: 34, 35 their Pembrokeshire reader response 7: 18 Cheshire: its closure 3: 10 sumach (see Rhus) wild 2: 10 ‘Sunset Cloud’ 10: 34 garden 10: 54–57 controlling 3: 22 Step-by-Step Veg Patch summer bulbs and tayberry, training 6: 22 telephium: shark fin melon 9: 52 letter on 10: 16 (RHS e-book) 7: 80 tubers, planting 3: 24–25 teasing roots 12: 20 Atropurpureum Sheffield Botanical on Hosta 7: 28, 74–75 Stern, Sir Frederick 2: 55, summer flavours 10: 47 temporary gardens: their Group: Gardens 1: 59, 60, 61 snake survey 3: 31 60 Sustainable Growing drawbacks, by Lia ‘Karfunkelstein’ Sherwood, Shirley 3: 78 Sneesby, Richard, on: the Sternbergia: Media Task Force Leendertz 10: 19 10: 34 award of OBE 2: 8 London Wetland Centre candida 10: 43, 43 (Defra) 1: 71; 11: 10 tender plants: ‘Leonore Zuuntz’ Shibataea kumasaca 11: Rain Garden 11: 74–78 lutea: Sutera Copia Dark Pink overwintered 2: 26–27 10: 34, 35 66, 69 snow mould (fusarium by Phil Clayton 10: perennial cuttings, by ‘Postman’s Pride’ shrubs: disease) 4: 24, 24 42–43, 42, 43 Nick Morgan 8: 55–57 10: 32, 35 autumn colour snowdrop (see planting partners SUCCEED tepals: definition 3: 15 ‘Purple Emperor’ combinations 11: Galanthus) 10: 43 ­alia movement in 6: 13 10: 32, 34, 35 34–40 soils: Angustifolia Group WITH... ­amnocalamus: conditioning, by Tony 10: 43 monthly column crassinodus 11: 67, 69 Dickerson 1: 47–49 sicula 10: 43, 43 by Phil Clayton ‘Kew Beauty’ 11: 69 SMALLER SPACES pest biocontrols 8: 24 Stewartia Arisaema 7: 70 71 thinning fruit 8: 26–27 bamboos for smaller garden in Charlbury, their influence on pseudocamellia 11: 38, auriculas, by 3: 48 49 ¬omas, Dylan 2: 76 gardens, by Jon Ardle Oxon, by Andrew productivity 7: 69 40 Cornus controversa ¬omas, Graham Stuart 11: 64 69 Lawson 11: 56 58 Solanum umtuma 5: 14, Stickland, Sue, on: 4: 56 57, 57 9: 55 Bennett, Penelope: her Newell, Karla and 14 colourful new brassica Dactylorhiza 5: 82 83 ¬ompson, Ken, on: rooftop garden in Andrew: their Solenostemon ‘Saturn’ 5: cultivars 11: 62–63 Dionaea muscipula gardens as ecosystems South Kensington, by courtyard garden in 35 RHS trial of broad 11: 60 61, 60, 61 5: 68–72 Phil Clayton 11: 46 47 Brighton, Sussex, by Solomon’s seal (see beans 3: 74–75 Gardenia 12: 40 41 ¬reatened Plants biodiversity of Pattie Baron 11: 54 55 Polygonatum) Stipa: Helleborus niger 1: Project 6: 9 suburban gardens, by Scoular, Aileen: her Solomon’s seal sawfly 6: calamagrostis 10: 49 62 63, 62, 63 tinda 9: 51, 51 Leigh Hunt 11: 45 town garden in 64 ‘Lemperg’ 7: 53 Hippeastrum 2: tits: domestic gardens: their London E4, by Martyn sooty mould on gigantea 10: 52 58 59 blue, by Andrew historic role, by Toby Cox 11: 48 51 evergreens 12: 27, 27 Stirling Castle: its Lewisia 6: 36 37 Halstead 1: 29, 29 Musgrave 11: 44 45 smaller spaces, Sorbus: original garden 3: 8 restios 9: 66 67 great 1: 27, 27 front gardens initiative gardening in, by Chris apomictic 10: 26 Stoneley, Bob and Shirley Sternbergia lutea 10: Titchmarsh, Alan (4: 21), in Rochester, Kent, by Young 11: 17 harrowiana 10: 65 9: 35 42 43, 42, 43 on: gardening as a Daniela Jankowska 11: vegetables for, by Ian hupehensis ‘Pink strawberries: Yucca whipplei 8: 34– career 4: 21 52 53 Hodgson 3: 62 67 Pagoda’ 11: 39 60-day 4: 26–27, 75 35, 34, 3435, 35 toad 8: 75 Grant, Sue: her front sargentiana 3: 41 cultivation 4: 74–76 tomatillo (see Physalis vilmorinii 11: 39 extending cropping ixocarpa)

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tomato(es): molinae berries 3: 44, Veitch Memorial Medal Victoria Medal of in a smaller world, by wapato 9: 51, 51 blossom end rot 7: 24, 44–45 7: 12 Honour (VMH) 7: 12 Chris Young 12: 13 Warburg, Primrose 2: 55 24 Ulting Wick, Maldon, Ventnor Botanic Garden, vine weevil: nematode Vitis: Wareham, Anne (12: 57), catfacing 7: 24, 24 Essex: its tulip displays, Isle of Wight 4: 11 control 8: 24, 24 pruning outdoor 11: and Charles Hawes: their for smaller outdoor by Annie Gatti 4: 44–49 Venus’ fly trap (see vines (see Vitis) 26–27 use of plants for visual spaces 3: 64 Union Terrace Gardens, Dionaea muscipula) Viola: training as a standard effect at Veddw House fruit splitting 7: 24, 24 Aberdeen 3: 12; 12: 9 Verbascum root cuttings downy mildew 1: 26 11: 27 Garden, Devauden, lack of light 7: 24 untidy gardens, by Nigel 11: 83, 83 leaf spots 1: 26, 26 coignetiae 10: 56; 11: 36 Monmouthshire, by late blight 7: 31, 31 Colborn 11: 21 verges, Plantlife initiative ‘Heartthrob’ 9: 12, 12 VMH (see Victoria Medal Chris Young 12: 54–59 magnesium deficiency unusual fruits: Physalis on management of 9: 31 Viscaceae taxonomy 12: of Honour) wasabi 7: 26 7: 24, 24 11: 70–71 vermiculite as a growing 64 VMM (see Veitch beds in Dorset 11: 14, 14 problems 7: 24 urban green space as medium 2: 46 Viscum: Memorial Medal) wasps, solitary: as garden temperature problems wildlife corridors 4: 72 with coir 2: 45 by Jonathan Briggs 12: Vortis suction sampler 3: pollinators 12: 24 7: 24 Urtica dioica nettle wine with green waste 2: 45 61–64 71, 71 Watanabe, Noriko ‘Marmande’ 10: 47, 47 11: 87 with wood fibre 2: 45 germination method (botanical artist) 3: 78 ‘Orangino’ 3: 10, 10 urui 11: 18, 18 vermin and wildlife, by 12: 62 Water Gardens, Hemel Rainbow Blend mix 11: Paola Wright 1: 21 mistletoe and birds 12: Hempstead, Herts: 12, 12 Viburnum: 63 rescue plan 10: 10 ‘Sungold’ 10: 47, 47 infected with mistletoe host plants water: Tradescant, John 9: 44 Phytophthora 1: 8 12: 62–63 capture 6: 58; 11: 76–78 trees: x bodnantense ‘Deben’ mistletoe in legend 12: for wildlife, by Jeremy autumn colour 12: 90, 90 62 W Biggs 8: 72–76 combinations 11: x burkwoodii ‘Compact album 12: 61, 62–64 husbandry at the 34–40 V Beauty’ 10: 64 cultivation 12: 63–64 Waitt, Lucy, on: plant- London Wetland autumn planting 10: 37 opulus 11: 37, 39 under threat 12: 63 hunters: an RHS/Garden Centre 11: 74–78 harvesting fruits 10: 22 Van Vemde, Marcel (3: berries 7: 66 subsp. abietis 12: 64 Museum exhibition 9: in garden features, by not to prune 10: 29 69), on: growing ‘Compactum’ 11: 40 subsp. austriacum 44–45 Chris Young 8: 17 Red List: update on gerberas 3: 69 ‘Fructu Luteo’ 11: 40 12: 64 Wallich, Nathaniel: watering: endangered wild Veddw House Garden, plicatum f.tomentosum subsp. album 12: 64 and Dryopteris efficiency 6: 59 conifers 2: 10 Devauden, Monmouth- Kilimanjaro (‘Jww1’) 4: subsp. creticum 12: wallichiana, by Roy in direct sun as a cause stumps, removing 11: 31 shire 12: 54–59 12, 12 64 Lancaster 11: 84–85, 85 of scorch, by Matthew their retention of dead Veitch, Harry: role in Vicia faba (see bean, cruciatum 12: 64, 64 plants named in his Biggs 8: 19 leaves 1: 15 RHS shows 2: 66 broad) visitors, garden: attracting honour 11: 85 in drought, by Julie Trevarno, near Helston, Cornwall 6: 9 trichomonosis in finches VEGETABLES WILDLIFE 12: 29 see also Fruit panel and Pests, Diseases & Disorders panel see also Environment, Living Gardens panels Trillium: planting 2: 26 allotments: as perennials, by Lia seeds, choosing 12: 27 bat boxes 2: 27, 27 ladybirds, common self-seeding (letter on) making the most of, by Leendertz 4: 19 shallots: bee hotels 12: 24, 24 British species 6: 24 9: 16 Lia Leendertz 6: 19 for balconies 11: 46 47 by Ian Hodgson 1: bee-ly, dark-edged moth, puss (Cerura kurabayashii 6: 15 their cost- for small spaces, by 54 56 (Bombylius major), by vinula): Triteleia ‘4U’ 9: 12, 12 eectiveness, by Ian Hodgson 3: 62 67 reader response 3: Andrew Halstead 4: 33, by Andrew Halstead Tropaeolum speciosum Emma Bond 8: 20 for the drier east and 16 33 8: 23, 23 (fasciation)11: 19 reader response 10: colder north 3: 28 Sowing New Seeds: an beetle, green tiger larva 8: 23 trophic pyramid 5: 68–69 17 perennial 10: 26 exotic seeds initiative, (Cicindela campestris), nectar and pollen tuber: definition 11: 17 aubergines: growing dwarf vegetable by Caroline Beck 9: by Andrew Halstead 6: plants 9: 22 Tulipa: outdoors 3: 26 cultivars 3: 63 50 53 29, 29 parent bugs displays at Ulting Wick, beetroot: February sowing and sowing in February: birds: (Elasmucha grisea), by Maldon, Essex, by eect of salt on planting, by Jo outdoors 2: 40 farmland: decline in Andrew Halstead 9: 31, Annie Gatti 4: 44–49 sweetness, by Whittingham 2: 40 41 under cover 2: 41 numbers 9: 31 31 displays in Judith and Matthew Biggs 2: 17 gherkins, outdoor 5: 31 with heat 2: 41 feeding in winter 1: 27 Perfect for Pollinators Michael Strong’s reader response 4: hanging baskets 3: 66 Step-by-Step Veg Patch blue tits, by Andrew campaign 3: 72; 7: 67; south London garden, 16 herbs for windowsills 11: (RHS e-book) 7: 80 Halstead 1: 29, 29 8: 12 by Vanessa Berridge 5: brassicas, colourful new, 26 tomato problems 7: 24 butterlies at Stratford Plants for Bugs project 75–77 by Sue Stickland 11: heritage vegetables: unusual vegetables, at Butterly Farm, 3: 70 72; 12: 44 painted by van 62 63 their importance, by Paul Barney’s Berkshire Warwickshire, by pollinator-friendly Kouwenhoorn 3: 80 broad beans: Toby Musgrave 2: 72 73 nursery, by Simon Helen Bostock 12: meadow plantings 12: ‘Abu Hassan’ 4: 49 pests and diseases 3: leaf beet and chard, by Garbutt 3: 43 46 42 46 46 ‘Carnaval de Nice’ 4: 49 26 Liz Dobbs 6: 54 55 Vegetable Conservation chemical use and rabbits (Oryctolagus ‘Queen of Sheba’ 4: 122, RHS trial, by Sue oca 4: 12, 12 Variety 2: 73 wildlife 9: 70 cuniculus), by Andrew 122 Stickland 3: 74 75 parsley: vegetable growing: its common lizard 5: 37, 37 Halstead 10: 31, 31 Tunbridge filmy fern (see ‘catch crops’ 5: 30 31 eect of pouring degree of easiness, by compost bins and tawny owls, by Andrew Hymenophyllum celeriac RHS trial at boiling water into Lia Leendertz 3: 21 heaps 9: 26 Halstead 7: 33, 33 tunbrigense) West Dean Gardens, drills, by Matthew reader response 5: 22 Cotoneaster as a moth, reader response 9: 17, Turpin, Pierre-Jean- W Sussex, by Sarah Biggs 3: 17 wasabi 7: 26 bird and bee attractor 17 François 3: 80 Wain 9: 38 39 Hamburg 1: 24, 24 beds in Dorset 11: 14, 10: 69 vermin and wildlife, by Turrell, Nick (11: 23), on: climbing French beans patio planters: vegetable 14 cuckoo tracking 4: 33 Paola Wright 1: 21 the beneficial influence at The Herbary. by crops 3: 66 windowboxes 3: 66 earwigs (For icula wildlife gardening 9: of front gardens 11: 23 Daniela Jankowska 10: potatoes, minituber: wines: unusual plants auricularia), by 68 71 58 60 how to propagate 4: for home brews, by Andrew Halstead 3: 31, its future 9: 69 Common Catalogue of 26 27 Susanne Masters 11: 31 wildlife pond at RHS Varieties of Vegetable radish: 86 88 inches, decline in Garden Hyde Hall 8: Species, EU 2: 73 problems 5: 31 winter vegetables: numbers 12: 29 74, 74 companion planting: its summer, by Rebecca sowing and planting fungi, bracket, by wildlife, studying 9: 70 eectiveness, by Bevan and Mario De out 9: 26 Andrew Halstead 2: 29 wildlife-friendly Matthew Biggs 11: 19 Pace 5: 84 86 Wong, James: his gardens: plantings 9: 71 containers 3: 62 67 rhubarb cultivation 8: campaign to productive for wildlife woodpeckers, green U crops: 26 encourage unusual 7: 67 (Picus viridis), by udo (see Aralia cordata) as culinary seasonal root crops: forking and crops 11: 14 their role in Andrew Halstead 12: Ugni: complements, by splitting 8: 28, 28 supporting wildlife 29, 29 National Plant Nigel Slater 10: 44 47 salads, baby leaf 2: 27 4: 70 73 Collection 10: 9

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Hollobone 6: 57–59 wineberry, Japanese (see CHRIS YOUNG priorities 6: 58 Rubus phoenicolasius) reduction in 6: 59 wines: unusual plants for Letter from the Editor waterlogging 4: 24; 6: home brews, by Susanne 2012’s wet summer: its January as a horticultural 58–59 Masters 11: 86–88 consequences 9: 15 breathing space 1: 15 Waterperry Gardens, winter: attracting garden visitors people: their importance Oxon: its new container displays 12: in a smaller world 12: 13 in the gardening world Contemporary Border 5: 22–23 autumn plantings 10: 15 7: 17 13 gardening pleasures, beneits of gardens to Tom Stuart-Smith’s home planting 2: 26 by Lia Leendertz 12: 19 wildlife 4: 15 experimentation 3: 15 waxwing 9: 9 herbs 11: 26 developments in use of plants for visual Webster, Jonathan (1: 80), plantings: growing media 2: 15 eect in Anne Wareham on: plans for 2012 at RHS at Anglesey Abbey, gardening and well- and Charles Hawes’ Garden Rosemoor 1: 80 Cambs 1: 64–67 being 6: 13 garden in Devauden, wedding cake tree (see at Michael and gardening in smaller Monmouthshire 12: Cornus controversa) Mercedes Hoffman’s spaces 11: 17 54 59 weeds: Cotswolds garden, improvements in use of water in garden chemical control 11: 31 by Mary Keen 12: gardening 5: 21 features 8: 17 controlling woody 11: 31 30–33 non-chemical control retention of dead leaves, 11: 31 by Mike Grant 1: 15 weevil, red palm vegetables: sowing and (Rhynchophorus planting out 9: 26 ferrugineus) 12: 9 witch hazel (see Weigela pruning 3: 53 Hamamelis) XYZ Welsh lichen wood fibre as a growing (Enterographa medium: yacón (see Smallanthus sorediata) 4: 11 with grit 2: 46 sonchifolius) Wentworth Castle with perlite 2: 46 yaffle (see woodpecker, Gardens, South Yorks: with vermiculite 2: 45 green) restoration of its Wong, James: his Young School Gardener Victorian conservatory campaign to encourage of the Year, RHS 9: 74, 74 11: 11, 11 unusual crops 11: 14 Yucca: wet and dry zones, Woodbury Cottage, glauca 8: 35 fluctuating: Reigate, Surrey: its harrimaniae 8: 35 recommended plants colour-themed garden, rostrata 8: 35, 35 11: 78 by Val Bourne 9: 32–37 whipplei by Phil wet summer 2012: its Woodland, Dennis Clayton 8: 34–35, 34, consequences, by Chris (obituary) 9: 10, 10 34–35, 35 You ng 9: 15 woodland habitats for Zantedeschia planting 2: wetland: wildlife 6: 69 26 gardens 11: 74–78 woodlice in compost 9: Zanthoxylum simulans planting combinations 26, 26 3: 43, 44 11: 78 woodpecker: Zehneria scabra 11: 14 whitefly, glasshouse great spotted (Trialeurodes (Dendrocopos major), vaporariorum) 7: 41, 41 on kniphofia 8: 18 Whitehouse, Christopher, green (Picus viridis), on: border sedums 10: by Andrew Halstead 32–35 12: 29, 29 Whittingham, Jo, on: Wookey, Janine, on: Cambo Estate walled Gillian and Peter Regan’s gardens, Fife 8: 58–63 naturalistic garden at vegetables to sow and Frith Old Farmhouse, plant in February 2: near Faversham, Kent 5: 40–41 38–42 why we plant, by Mary worms in compost 3: 25, Keen 5: 27 9: 26 reader response 7: 18 wren 1: 27, 27 wildflowers: Wright, Paola (1: 21), on: losses of the last 60 vermin and wildlife 1: 21 years 11: 14 seed 10: 12 increasing sales of, by Sally Nex 10: 12 Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust: its Rain Garden, Barnes, London 11: 74–78 wildlife (see panel) Wilks, William: role in RHS shows 2: 66 Williams, Roger (1: 71; 3: 19), on: the RHS view of peat replacement 1: 71 Wilson, Andrew, on: Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith’s Hertfordshire garden 3: 32–38 Wilson, EH 3: 41; 5: 65; 9: 58 Windlesham Trophy, RHS 6: 80 windowboxes 3: 66

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