In this blog Isis Brook, deputy editor of Plant Perspectives, reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16 August). I…

In this blog Shelley Kolstad evokes the sensory and embodied experience of the fieldwork site that inspired her article in Plant Perspectives (online first May 2026), ‘Between the “Outl…

In this blog Santiago Gorostiza, Alejandro Pérez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva and José María Sánchez Laforet synthesise the contribution of their recent Open Access article in Environment and Hist…

In today’s blog, Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya introduces his article just published in Plant Perspectives (21 April 2026, online first) ‘The Power of a Small Herb: The Case of Huacatay in t…

Today we at the White Horse Press announce a change to the editorship of Plant Perspectives. Issue 3.1 (published last week) marks John C. Ryan’s last as editor. We are hugely grateful to John for …

Today we at the White Horse Press announce a change to the editorship of Plant Perspectives. Issue 3.1 (published last week) marks John C. Ryan’s last as editor. We are hugely grateful to John for …

Fallen wild apples; photography by Natubico One of the fascinating things about the special issue of Plant Perspectives on “Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities” is its breadth.  There ar…

Deodar Cedar in the Himalayas; photograph by Paul Hamilton Humans respond to size, particularly to what is larger than them.  That’s one reason why trees are so significant to humans:  th…

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In this blog, linked to her recently published article in Plant Perspectives, entitled BETWEEN GRAZING AND GATHERING: PLANT KNOWLEDGES, BELONGING AND BECOMING IN THE SWISS ALPS, Maria Kernecker exp…

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