The Plant Review

Published four times a year, this inspiring magazine takes an in-depth look at the bizarre, brilliant and beautiful plants that grow in gardens. If plants are your thing, The Plant Review magazine is essential reading

September 2024

The Plant Review September cover

Inside the issue

Discover why hawthorns are hard to beat for year-round interest. Get up close and personal in an exposé of cryptic Greek cyclamen. Meet the Metasequoia National Plant Collection thriving at RHS Garden Wisley. Find temptation at every turn at a famous French festival of plants. Consider plants fit for a future of extreme weather. Visit Norwell Nurseries to find plants feeling right at home in a sandy substrate.

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Written by people who know and grow plants, each 68-page, colour issue balances an exciting mix of news, gardens and profiles of plants you will long to grow.

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Recent issues in 2024

Hear about encounters with Chinese shrubby Lonicera at home and abroad. Size up some unsung spring lovelies with a selection of the best Erythronium. Look at the exciting new cultivars of Syneilesis and their novel uses. Find the best Prunus serrula to grow for polished bark; survey some crosses of large-bracted Cornus and some stand out cultivars. Spread the word on the garden merits of Erinus alpinus.

March 2024

Hear about encounters with Chinese shrubby Lonicera at home and abroad. Size up some unsung spring lovelies with a selection of the best Erythronium. Look at the exciting new cultivars of Syneilesis and their novel uses. Find the best Prunus serrula to grow for polished bark; survey some crosses of large-bracted Cornus and some stand out cultivars. Spread the word on the garden merits of Erinus alpinus.

Learn the results and revelations from the RHS Sweet Pea Trial. See the palette of spectacular colour found among herbaceous Potentilla. Venture among the vicious spines of perplexing and beautiful Puya. Admire the plants and places associated with plant hunter Père Armand David. Discover the ornamental allure of Chinese buddlejas. Be intrigued by some accommodating progeny of Helleborus thibetanus.

June 2024

Learn the results and revelations from the RHS Sweet Pea Trial. See the palette of spectacular colour found among herbaceous Potentilla. Venture among the vicious spines of perplexing and beautiful Puya. Admire the plants and places associated with plant hunter Père Armand David. Discover the ornamental allure of Chinese buddlejas. Be intrigued by some accommodating progeny of Helleborus thibetanus.

Hear about encounters with Chinese shrubby Lonicera at home and abroad. Size up some unsung spring lovelies with a selection of the best Erythronium. Look at the exciting new cultivars of Syneilesis and their novel uses. Find the best Prunus serrula to grow for polished bark; survey some crosses of large-bracted Cornus and some stand out cultivars. Spread the word on the garden merits of Erinus alpinus.

March 2024

Hear about encounters with Chinese shrubby Lonicera at home and abroad. Size up some unsung spring lovelies with a selection of the best Erythronium. Look at the exciting new cultivars of Syneilesis and their novel uses. Find the best Prunus serrula to grow for polished bark; survey some crosses of large-bracted Cornus and some stand out cultivars. Spread the word on the garden merits of Erinus alpinus.

Learn the results and revelations from the RHS Sweet Pea Trial. See the palette of spectacular colour found among herbaceous Potentilla. Venture among the vicious spines of perplexing and beautiful Puya. Admire the plants and places associated with plant hunter Père Armand David. Discover the ornamental allure of Chinese buddlejas. Be intrigued by some accommodating progeny of Helleborus thibetanus.

June 2024

Learn the results and revelations from the RHS Sweet Pea Trial. See the palette of spectacular colour found among herbaceous Potentilla. Venture among the vicious spines of perplexing and beautiful Puya. Admire the plants and places associated with plant hunter Père Armand David. Discover the ornamental allure of Chinese buddlejas. Be intrigued by some accommodating progeny of Helleborus thibetanus.

Hear about encounters with Chinese shrubby Lonicera at home and abroad. Size up some unsung spring lovelies with a selection of the best Erythronium. Look at the exciting new cultivars of Syneilesis and their novel uses. Find the best Prunus serrula to grow for polished bark; survey some crosses of large-bracted Cornus and some stand out cultivars. Spread the word on the garden merits of Erinus alpinus.

March 2024

Hear about encounters with Chinese shrubby Lonicera at home and abroad. Size up some unsung spring lovelies with a selection of the best Erythronium. Look at the exciting new cultivars of Syneilesis and their novel uses. Find the best Prunus serrula to grow for polished bark; survey some crosses of large-bracted Cornus and some stand out cultivars. Spread the word on the garden merits of Erinus alpinus.

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Highlights from the back issues

Discover the wonderful world of plants with a look back at in-depth plant profiles, cultivation advice, international garden visits, news, findings from plant trials and botanical explorations in this celebration of all things plants.

See the highlights from 2023 to 2017

Annual indices

<i>The Plantsman</i> Index 1994–2014

The Plantsman Index 1994–2014(1.4MB pdf)

<i>The Plantsman</i> Index 1979–1994

The Plantsman Index 1979–1994(0.707MB pdf)

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