Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Maggi Young on February 28, 2017, 08:26:23 PM
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Some time ago David Nicholson prepared a list of specialist nurseries..... the SRGC List of suggested specialist nurseries which you can find here
http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf
Updated list - not claiming to be complete:
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Some other organisation was compiling a similar list. I remember reading it and noting that they did not have Bide-a-Wee Cottage Garden and Nursery http://www.bideawee.co.uk/ (http://www.bideawee.co.uk/) so I suggested that one. It cannot have been the SRGC list since our list misses that nursery also (and it's not even too far from Scotland). I think I might have heard about this 'competing' list through Tim Ingram (Copton Ash Garden and Nursery); perhaps he remembers where it is?
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Maybe you are thinking of this new organisation Alan? www.independentplantnurseriesguide.uk (http://www.independentplantnurseriesguide.uk)
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The SRGC list was compiled some time ago from nurseries which have been mentioned favourably in the forum or who support and advertise in the SRGC Journal. The more recent project referred to (which the SRGC was submitted to, by the way and was gratefully received by the organisers) is intended to highlight all specialist nurseries, rather than those particularly allied to rock garden and alpine plants, as the SRGC list tends to be. :)
There are also the links pages of the SRGC - reached from the menu at the top of each page ...http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?action=links (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?action=links)
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Thank you, Lisa, that was the website I was thinking of.
Please allow me to give a favourable mention to the nursery I mentioned, Bide-a-Wee Cottage Garden and Nursery. It's a fantastic garden and the nursery, although only small, contains a selection of the plants grown in the garden which are difficult to find elsewhere. The garden incorporates a former quarry so it's likely that some of the plants on sale will be appropriate to a rock garden, although I did not pay attention to this aspect of the nursery.
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Alan, if Bide A Wee have a website - since the system prefers a direct link be made, you can submit an entry to the SRGC links pages http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?action=links (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?action=links)
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Maggi, I cannot figure out how to submit an entry but I gave the address of the web site in my first post:
http://www.bideawee.co.uk/ (http://www.bideawee.co.uk/)
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Some time ago David Nicholson prepared a list of specialist nurseries..... the SRGC List of suggested specialist nurseries which you can find here http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf
This is a list to make any American rock gardener pea green with envy. You are all so lucky!!
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We are lucky, Anne - some really great growers/ nurseries there - but, you know, a few years ago there would have been lots more.
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Indeed Maggi. I'm re-reading old SRGC and AGS bulletins from when I first joined (mid 1990s) and was thinking the same thing when looking at the adverts in the back.
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That's also happening in the U.S., but we start from a much smaller number.
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That's also happening in the U.S., but we start from a much smaller number.
Even less here! We're always impressed when we go to NZ and see the interest in Alpines and Rock Garden plants there! :o
And the ads in the Journals make us green with envy :-[
Fortunately we have lots of dedicated "amateurs" (in the true sense of the word - they do it for the love of the plants) who are always trying new plants from seed,
cheers
fermi
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The alpine nursery list does not open on my pphone. Is it for a PC only and could you convert it for phone use.
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The alpine nursery list does not open on my pphone. Is it for a PC only and could you convert it for phone use.
David Nicholson's list is old and has been superseded, try this page of the website: https://www.srgc.net/add-links-nurseries.asp
There are some updates need to the "new" list, with retirements, deaths not noted- I will try to update - this is a start.... [attachurl=1]
A seed supplier list is here: https://www.srgc.net/documents/publications/Seed%20Suppliers%20list.pdf
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Great update, among them and not to advertise but great experience with fresh short living seeds from plant world seeds.
Alan from Alplains will release new list despite his said it'll be the last...in 2023 ;)
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Right Yann...there is still a small list from Alan. But delivery is now only within the USA and Canada...due to the regulations for importing into the EU.
So if you have private contacts in the USA or Canada, you have an advantage...😉
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Short update for the Cacti - and Succulents part
Jörg Pilltz is died before some time - his shop ist closed
Here is a very interesting seller from France :
https://adblps-graines-cactus.com/index_EN.html
Maybe can anybody add it to the list ?
Thanks Hans
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Aymeric de Barmon provide seeds of quality, i know someone who often order from him.
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Right Yann...there is still a small list from Alan. But delivery is now only within the USA and Canada...due to the regulations for importing into the EU.
So if you have private contacts in the USA or Canada, you have an advantage...😉
I still have a mailbox in Indiania from where i tranship stuff i buy in the usa. There's plethora of companies that offer this service for an annual subscription but it worth the cost only if you import each month.