E-magazine feature on SRGC Website

[Maggi Young]

I don't know how many of you folks drop in here via the Home Page of the SRGC..  www.srgc.net or the old page: http://www.srgc.org.uk/        .... but those who do may have noticed an extra hotlink there in the past couple of days...... there it is, below the Forum  box.....



the box leads to the International Rock Gardener

Click on it and you will be taken to the main menu page for a brand new SRGC Feature...........
The impatient amongst you can click here , instead!

 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

The page tells you about the new venture.... and this evening there is a further link there for you to follow!

Have a look, tell us what you think in the  IRG feedback section .......

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4851.msg131627#msg131627

[Maggi Young]

Issue 2  online 26th February 2010
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

The intention is to load a new issue  on/around the last Friday of every month.

As an aid to remembering that, why not register for the SRGC Forum, and, in your profile settings: Notifications and Email , enable email alerts from this thread..... that way you'll discover when each new issue is loaded online 

[Maggi Young]

Issue Number 3 March 2010 is now online.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

....please look out for the hyperlinks to other relevant websites denoted by bright blue colouration of names or words 

You may comment on the IRG here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4851.msg144563#msg144563

To make contact about a future submission for IRG, please send an email to
info@srgc.org.uk ......we look forward to hearing from you!

[Maggi Young]

Issue 4 ,April 2010 of International Rock Gardener is now online
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

As ever, your comments are most welcome here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4851.msg144563#msg144563

or email me at info AT srgc.org.uk.

[Maggi Young]

Issue 5 of International Rock Gardener, for May 2010 is now online at
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

Daphnes feature strongly in this issue.... if you need a further Daphne "fix" see this Forum thread: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4908.0  for "Daphnes 2010"... there are lots more Daphne pages in the Forum, including Olga Bondareva's 'Where the wild daphne grows" http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4332.0  

[Maggi Young]

Issue 6 of International Rock Gardener, for June 2010 is now online


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

In this issue there are the first introductions to Speakers at the Alpines 2011 Conference to be held in Nottingham, in the UK, in April 2011. Future issues will feature more of the Speakers......

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2010Jul141279102139IRGJUNE.pdf

[Maggi Young]

Issue 7 of International Rock Gardener, for July 2010 is now online


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

In this issue there are more introductions to Speakers arranged for the Alpines 2011 Conference, organised by the Alpine Garden Society, to be held in Nottingham, in the UK, in April 2011.

The deadline for the "Early Bird discount" for the conference is the end of August, so we urge anyone interested in attending not to miss that opportunity to save £100!

Further to the Conference activities, there is news of the Pre and Post Conference Tours here :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2751.msg161651#msg161651

The issue also features more floral emblems of alpine plant organisations around the world.....if YOUR club hasn't  been featured yet, why not drop a line to me to tell me about it?
Write to info@srgc.org.uk or post in the IRG feedback area of the Forum.
It will also be a pleasure to hear from any one who feels they have a plant story to share with IRG..... same email contact....

 

[Maggi Young]

Issue 8 of International Rock Gardener, for August 2010 is now online


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

[Maggi Young]

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international
 
The SRGC e-magazine 'International Rock Gardener'  No.9  for  September 2010  is online now.  This issue contains more tributes to the late Jim Archibald and and his work and includes photos of the plants being grown worldwide from Archibald seed, sent in by growers who really appreciated the  chance to grow these plants.
 
This photograph of Iris iberica ssp. lycotis grown from seeds he received from Jim and Jenny a few years ago is by Hans Achilles.
This Iris,  as with all  Hans'  bulbous plants, grows outside in the garden without any protection (either in winter or summer), despite of an annual rainfall of about 800 mm.
 
The seed of this delightful oncocyclus Iris from Iran, was collected by a Scotsman,  grown by a German living on Mallorca and is shared with gardeners from every country with an internet connection, all via the IRG ..... says it all really, doesn't it?

[Maggi Young]

Issue 10 of IRG is now online   
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2010Nov271290899267October_IRG10_.pdf
This issue begins an introduction some of the plant gems of North America for the rock garden.

See this issue and access all the previous issues, at
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

[Maggi Young]

Hello from snowy Aberdeen- the November issue of IRG is now online
 all issues :http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international



IRG 11  shows us more beautiful plants from the mountain areas of north America.
Take another tour with IRG and enjoy the photos of sunny days in the Wild West.

We also have some suggestions from Michal Hoppel about how best to grow some of these "American Beauties" in European gardens.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2010Nov261290804873IRG11_November2010.pdf

[Maggi Young]

The December issue, no. 12, of IRG is online now.... a week early to give you something to divert you all from too much festive food 

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2010Dec261293381708IRG_12_December.pdf

We are delighted to have an article from Susann Nilsson, with permission from the Swedish Garden Club and their STA Journal - Trädgårds Amatören.

 There are also hints on crevice garden design for good drainage and some of the wonderful plants to be captured on camera in Turkey......



Aethionema capitatum, Kup Dag , Turkey. Photo Mojmir Pavelka .

 The IRG Team would like to express our heartfelt thanks to our former SRGC President Glassford Sprunt both for his assistance with proof-reading the IRG and in compiling and Index  for the 2010 editions, which is appended to this month's .
This is a vital task for IRG - thank you, Glassford!

Thanks to all those who have contributed to the first year of IRG and to those who will  also make the coming year a pleasure for our readers!

From the IRG Team, wherever you are in the world, may you find peace and happiness now and in the year to come.

[Maggi Young]

First issue of 2011 is now online:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Jan271296161952IRG13.pdf


Sunrise behind Frederikshavn, from an article  by Ellen Raebild & Herluf Johansen, Denmark

[Maggi Young]

February issue of IRG is now online:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Feb241298591020IRG14_Feb_2011.pdf

Signs of Spring from John  Gennard's wood........

[Maggi Young]

The March issue of International Rock Gardener - IRG15 - is now online.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Mar251301088655IRG15_March_2011.pdf

Featuring -
Joan and Liam McCaughey's selection from the Tien Shan; 'Silk Road Blues'
Kata and Ferenc Zoltan's photo essay of  striking natural plant combinations: 'Alpine Groupings and    Rock Gardens in Nature'
Vlastimil Braun on Daphne malyana
 and introducing an article from Paige Woodward that is shown in full in the Forum on an Iris "re-found" in Afghanistan  ( http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6967.0 )