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Hardy Plant Society
A community of plantspeople and gardeners keen to share their love of growing hardy perennial plants #horticulture
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October 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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On a Chalk Hillside – October 2024
Following on from talking about rejuvenating aged shrubs two months ago, this month I am going to show some of those shrubs literally from a different angle, one we had never had the opportunity to see before.  Up until then we had seen them from the path…
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October 2, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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HPS News for October 2024
Hello Hardy Planters, Welcome to our new look email newsletter, giving you a snapshot of what’s going on across the Hardy Plant Society this month. Check out a video message from me, then find out about October’s Hardy Plant Society events (and below)…
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October 1, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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The White Garden
White Gardens inevitably give a sense of peace and calm. Quite the reverse for my latest article for Hort Week on Hot Borders ! The emphasis being on hot colours of orange, red, purple, deeper pinks, and yellow flowers, with contrasting foliage colours,…
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September 10, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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On a Chalk Hillside – September 2024
Are all children fascinated by the idea of carnivorous plants?  I know I was.  For me it was sundews, those sprung traps that a fly moving on them three times in a second or two caused them to snap shut on them and immure them.  For my husband it was the…
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September 4, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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The Hardy Plant Society Announces Rachel de Thame as a New Ambassador for the Society.
Rachel de Thame has agreed to become an Ambassador for the Hardy Plant Society. She will join our team of high-profile gardening ambassadors Matthew Biggs, Matthew Wilson and Carol Klein. Rachel will work with The Chair of the HPS to promote the society…
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September 4, 2024 at 6:44 AM
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On a Chalk Hillside – August 2024
This month, how the spring/early summer weather has affected my garden.  Following on from the very wet mild winter we had a wet mild March and April which caused Magnolias to flower in March, and Rhododendrons to be in full flower in mid-April.  It was…
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August 5, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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HPS Bursary Reports, March – July 2024
The Hardy Plant Society uses our Bursary fund to enable applicants to conduct research and investigation into suitable plant projects.  We have three new reports for your enjoyment on our bursary reports page. Most have beautiful photos and great detail…
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July 22, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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On a Chalk Hillside – July 2024
This month following on from my thinking about how long plants live last month I am going to talk more about how to rejuvenate plants in your garden.   First a couple of star plants at the end of June here: – Lychnis coronaria: – Geranium ‘Patricia': – I…
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July 15, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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Astrantia Major, Astrantia Major Buckland, Lakeside Garden
Astrantia major commonly known as (Great Masterwort) has to be one of the most admired plants in the Lakeside garden, it catches the eye and is the focus of encapsulating undivided attention on every garden tour I undertake. I was struck by this perennial…
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July 11, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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On a Chalk Hillside – June 2024
Let's start with a star plant for the beginning of June in my garden – which also happens to be a very long-lived hardy perennial – the Oriental Poppy, (Papaver orientale):- This month I am going to consider the life span of different plants, and how long…
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June 6, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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The Hardy Plant Society is delighted to announce that Val Bourne is our new Vice President
Val Bourne has been a member of the Hardy Plant Society for over 50 years and has been outstanding in her support of the society and its work. We are delighted that she accepted the role of Vice President of The Hardy Plant Society. Our President, Roy…
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May 23, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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HPS Member Ann-Marie Powell wins an RHS Award for designing the Octavia Hill Garden
At the 2024 RHS Chelsea flower show, a new award of RHS Children's Choice was judged by primary school children from nine London schools. 72 children visited eight show gardens to assess each one on three criteria: The junior judges were chosen for their…
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May 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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HPS Member Ann-Marie Powell wins an RHS Award for designing the Octavia Hill Garden
At the 2024 RHS Chelsea flower show, a new award of RHS Children's Choice was judged by primary school children from nine London schools. 72 children visited eight show gardens to assess each one on…
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May 21, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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Welsh Poppy: Meconopsis cambrica
  I recall in the early 1980s when I started my professional horticultural career as a nurseryman, admiring the Welsh Poppies from the glasshouses, colonising the grass areas that surrounded the acres of glasshouse on the east side of the Arreton Valley…
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May 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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On a Chalk Hillside – May 2024
After the landscaping and creating the gabion wall described last month, this month is about constructing and planting up the fern bed.  By 21 July 2019, the ground at the base of the gabions had reverted to weedy grass and had to be weeded and levelled.…
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May 14, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Sixty Plus Surfers
Following our appearance at the Garden Press Event in February, the online news site Sixty Plus Surfers has written a short piece describing the HPS with a nice photo of our Chair Pamela at the event. You can see their piece on their website here:…
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May 1, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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RHS Plant Review Handbook 2024
Published in December last year, the RHS Plant Review Handbook 2024 contains a list of 43 groups offering ways to get involved in plants and gardening. The HPS has a double page feature showing our special interest groups alongside the main society.  If…
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April 22, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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Winners of the 2023 HPS Members Photographic Competition
The number of entries for the 2023 competition was unfortunately fairly low. The big difference with other years is that this time, people have clearly been thinking a lot more about composition and lighting which resulted in some more unusual pictures…
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April 17, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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On a Chalk Hillside – April 2024
This being a gardening column you would naturally expect me to major on all the ferns I have collected into my new fern bed, and I will be introducing some of the plants in between my explanation of how we created the fern bed planting opportunity on our…
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April 4, 2024 at 6:43 AM
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Member Newsletter for March 2024
For HPS members our latest newsletter has now been delivered by post and also available online at the newsletter page. Inside, you can find out about our new approach to flower shows and events around the country, why Rebecca Hilgenhof has a passion for…
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March 15, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Hybrid Hellebores in the Lakeside Garden
The Hybrid Hellebores are currently a real showpiece on the edges of the woodland setting at the Lakeside garden. Companion planting includes Cyclamen coum and Crocus tommasinianus. The colour tones of Hybrid Hellebores are quite something to behold, rich…
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March 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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On a Chalk Hillside – March 2024
This month I shall describe how we started to plan how we wanted to landscape and plant up our new piece of garden. For this March article, I shall also thread through some photos of my favourite Cyclamen-flowered Narcissus which are a joy during the…
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March 5, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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HPS Bursary Reports for February 2024
The Hardy Plant Society uses our Bursary fund to enable applicants to conduct research and investigation into suitable plant projects.  We have three new reports for your enjoyment on our bursary reports page. Most have beautiful photos and great detail…
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February 29, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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Interview with Pamela Clark at the Garden Press Event
On February 20th the HPS had a stand at the Garden Press Event. Saul Walker and Helen Brown who run the Shows and Events team, supported by Ann Franks (Publicity) and Pamela Clark (Chair) all represented the society on the stand. Oliver Rogers of the…
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February 26, 2024 at 7:45 PM