Plant Perspectives
PP Vol.3 (1), March 2026

EDITORIAL
Plants in Places John Charles Ryan
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Media Ecologies and Transcendent Technology in Richard Powers’s ‘The Overstory’ Thomas Storey
Jacaranda Trees, Place and Affect: An Analysis of Australian Newspaper Articles, 1900–2023 Elizabeth Oriel
Entangled Genealogies: Mulberries, Production of Racial Categories, and Land Development in Central Virginia Alissa Ujie Diamond
Chicanx Cannabis Relationships: Cultural and Political Histories of Cannabis Resistance Magaly Ordoñez
Secularise to Conserve. The History of the Wax Palm in Colombia Diego Molina
Pondering with Örö Pines – Talking with Trees as an Undisciplinary Method Annette Arlander
POETRY
Betula Papyrifera Nicholas Robinette
the plants to live by Pujita Guha
BOOK REVIEWS
Amitav Ghosh, Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories Heather Martin
Diego Molina, Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920 Ximena Sevilla
PP Vol.2 (2), October 2025

Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities
INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities Caroline Cornish, Christina Hourigan
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Tree Biographies and the Cultural History of Place at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew* Christina Hourigan
Beatrix Potter and the ‘Timber Question’: Arboreal Stewardship in the English Lake District Anna Burton
Shelley’s Arboreal Poetics of Place and Wordsworth’s ‘Woodland State’ Amanda Blake Davis
Amherstia Nobilis: High priest of the Vegetable World Kate Teltscher
The Absence of the Ackee Tree: Jamaican Botanical Resistance and Kew’s Colonial Archive Heather Craddock
Un-cultivation in America: Discourses of Wild and Foraged Apples Maria Kennedy
Where on Earth are the Moon Trees? Melanie Ford, Eric A. Macdonald
POETRY
‘Let Us … Have a Look at the Glorious Old Yew Once Again’: Eliza Cook, Yew Trees and Intertemporal Legacies Shani Cadwallender
The Tree You Want Dean Anthony Brink
BOOK REVIEWS
Sumana Roy, How I Became a Tree Shruti Jain
Daniel Lewis, Twelve Trees: And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future Natasha Heller
M.L. Herring, Born of Fire and Rain: Journey into a Pacific Coastal Forest Mika Hyman
PP Vol.2 (1), April 2025

EDITORIAL
Editorial John Charles Ryan
RESEARCH ARTICLES
An Archaeology of Ruderal Futurism Alex Young
Alien Plants between Practices and Representations: The Cases of European Spruce and Beach Rose in Finland Harri Uusitalo, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Otto Latva, Hannu Salmi, Teija Alenius
Poppies and Women Under the Linden Tree in a Slovak Village: Exploring Culturally Significant Plants Through Informed Archaeological Storytelling Zuzana Chovanec
Plants as Designers of Better Futures: Can Humans Let Them Lead? Julian Rutten, Alexander Holland, Stanislav Roudavski
Photographic Phytography: Towards a Photographic Re-Centring of the Oak Tree within Theory, Material and Practice Epha J. Roe
NARRATIVES
A Journey through Soviet and post-Soviet Plant Entanglements Susanne Fehlings
A Birch Memory Web Mykyta Peregrym
Conversations with Trees: The Experiences of an Arboreal Pilgrim Isabella Clarke
ARTIST COMMENTARY
Plant Intelligence in Moist Spaces: Designing Data Visualisations of Botanical Life Minjie Wen
POETRY
Three Poems from Blazing Star Megan Kaminski
Religar, from the Forest Time Project Evgenia Emets
BOOK REVIEWS
Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits Daniela Kato
Joela Jacobs and Agnes Malinowska (eds), Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-Matter Maura Flannery
Laura Drouet and Olivier Lacrouts (eds), Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-Examination of Transparent Microcosms Tamara Caulkins
Plant Perspectives publishes two issues annually. More information is available on the journal’s webpage.