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A Welcome from SRGC President Mrs Liz Mills
SRGC President Mrs Liz Mills Hello to all of you who share my love of alpine plants. It's both an honour and privilege to have been elected as President of the Scottish Rock Garden Club and I intend to work hard to ensure our Club remains dynamic and forward looking. Ian Christie, our immediate past President, will be a hard act to follow. Apart from guiding us all, talking to members far and wide through the Journal and the Web, he's done an excellent job of promoting the Club to hundreds maybe thousands of people, great and small - for everybody in the gardening world both at home and abroad seems to know and respect Ian both for his knowledge and his down to earth personality. Thank you Ian for all you've done for the Club. 
New SRGC President Mrs Liz Mills with Outgoing SRGC President Mr Ian Christie As most of you know the SRGC and all its activities are run by unpaid volunteers who give generously of their time and their skills in many different ways so that all our members can share their knowledge and enthusiasm. A typical example of this is the work that Fred Carrie, Ian and Maggi Young do in running this marvellous website which enables all our members, far and near, to keep in touch as well as sharing a wealth of knowledge about rock garden plants with a worldwide public. I don't need to tell you how good it is for you know that already. But all three of them spend countless hours every week of the year keeping the show on the road. So a big thank you to them, as well as to all the contributors. Lang may your lum reek. I have chosen to highlight the work of Fred, Ian and Maggi as an example of what volunteers can and do achieve in our Club. But there are many, many others who work just as hard in producing the Journal, running the Seed Exchange and the Shows, doing the day to day administration, producing exhibitions, giving talks - the list is endless. So if you think you would like to help share the workload or if you have ideas about how we can expand our activities or do things better, please get in touch with me, either through the website or by e-mailing me at liz.saline@hotmail.co.uk Lastly, I'm looking forward to having lots of fun over the next three years visiting all the Groups and attending all the Shows where I know I'll see lots of wonderful plants. But, best of all will be the chat with friends old and new, both in person and over the internet, happy in the knowledge that you all share my love of the mountains and their wee plants. 
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