Recently published work
[with Niki Simpson] Photography and Contemporary Botanical Illustration. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. (in press)Text contributions for RHS Encyclopedia of Perennials (2007)
Editorial input to Polystichum Cultivars: variation in the British shield ferns. London: British Pteridological Society (2005)
Plant descriptions and associated data input for the RHS online Plant Selector (on-going)
Chapter for Cultural History of Plants. London: Routledge (2004)
[with Petrit Hoda] Plant Exploration in Albania: a short history. Curtis's Botanical Magazine18(3): 170-180 (2001)
Japan's Botanical Sunrise: plant exploration around the Meiji Restoration. Curtis's Botanical Magazine.18(2): 117-131 (2001)
Text for Care Free Plants. Reader's Digest Association (2001)
On the importance of Chinese and Japanese native plants in Western gardens [address to International Symposium on Man and Nature: Landscape, Horticulture and Plant Resources, Kunming July 1999; published in Proceedings (2001)
× Chitalpa tashkentensis, a novel hybrid. The New Plantsman, 7(3): 132-139 (2000)
Brightening the shadows [some unusual climbers for shade] The Garden, 125(5): 358-361 (2000)
Pushing the limits [bigeneric hybrids] The Garden, 125(2): 122-125 (2000)
Hebe, Abelia, Shortia, Conandron, Lysionotus, in Walters et al, European Garden Flora vol. 6 (2000)
Encyclopaedia Botanica Plus [review], The Garden 124(11): 865 (1999)
Acer griseum, AGM [Award of Garden Merit] The Garden, 124(11): 830 (1999)
Cercidiphyllum japonicum [letter] The New Plantsman 6 (2):128 (1999)
Sorbus commixta and S. matsumurana in gardens The New Plantsman 6 (1):40-42 (1999)
Ingenious strategies [drought adaptations] The Garden 123 (5):374-379 (1999)
Perfect strangers, an introduction the the genus Asarum. The Garden 123 (5):352-354 (1999)
Contributions to the CABI Crop Compendium CD-ROM (1999)
Text & database management for descriptions of Award of Garden Merit Plants, RHS, London (1999)
Confusion in cultivated meadowsweets (Filipendula Miller), The New Plantsman, 5(3):145-153 (1998) (click here to see a shortened version)
Some Albanian Ferns, The Pteridologist, 3(2):99-102 (1997) (click here to see this)
Text for Reader's Digest New Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants & Flowers, London (1997)
Nomenclatural update for reprint of Bowles, E.A. My Garden in... trilogy. Timber Press, Portland (1997, 1998)
Part text for Conservatory Plants by Phillips & Rix. Macmillan, London (1997)
Various genera in Walters et al, European Garden Flora vol. 5 (1997)