E-magazine feature on SRGC Website

[Maggi Young]

Enjoy a hike with David Sellars on one of the finest alpine walks, be tempted to grow a range of Androsace like Franz Hadacek and meet Rafa Diez Dominguez, plantsman and artist : All in September's IRG
 
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Sep251411672305IRG57.pdf September 2014 IRG

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

http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRGIndex57.pdf    IRG Index to September 2014

 
Myosotis alpestris - David Sellars.

[Maggi Young]

IRG 58 of October 2014  is now online HERE : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Oct301414703577IRG58.pdf     

We have a new contributor this month - Robbie Blackhall-Miles, who  is propagator at Crug Farm Plants in North Wales and blogs for ‘Guardian Gardening’ where he encourages people to try growing something new and different. On his website www.fossilplants.co.uk he writes about the plants growing in his ‘backyard botanic garden’ ; a collection of early evolutionary plants and horticultural oddities. He is becoming renowned for succeeding with difficult to grow plant species and is particularly interested in Proteaceae, Ericaceae, Cycads and Ferns. He is a fellow of ‘The Linnean Society Of London’ – the world’s premier society for the study of natural history, and is Chairman of the Australasian Plant Society in Great Britain.


IRG 58  has  an  article from Robbie Blackhall-Miles on the living roof  of his shed. He has included some rather surprising plants there. Who would expect to see Ranunculus lyallii ,  looking so much at home in its native New Zealand in this photo by David Lyttle, to be able to survive on  the roof of a wooden shed in Wales? 


Ranunculus lyallii in the Hooker Valley  by David Lyttle.

Zdeněk Zvolánek  (ZZ)  writes, with input from Robert Rolfe  and  John Mitchell of the lovely Gentiana ternifolia ' Cangshan' .  The introduction of this gentian is discussed in the June 1989 issue of  The Rock Garden  in  an article: "Two new autumn flowering gentians - possibly ascribed to Gentiana ternifolia" by I. Christie and I.H. McNaughton - the full Journal including the article is available online :  http://files.srgc.net/journals/vol_1%20to_113/84.pdf
 (You may not know that 127137 (number updated!)  issues of the SRGC journal "The Rock Garden" are available to read or download from this page : http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=5021&ftrCountry=GB&ftrKeyword=&ftrBGCImem=Y&ftrIAReg=    )


Zdeněk Zvolánek also sings the praises of a Daphne arbuscula cultivar, 'Star of Ziskov' 

(http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international   main page for all issues of IRG and
a full Index is here :  Index http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRGIndex58.pdf)


IRG 58 cover photo of Ranunculus lyallii in habitat in New Zealand - by J.  Ian Young

[Maggi Young]

This month the IRG 59 has articles on plant naming, trough planting and a charming oriental orchid:
        http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Nov271417122600IRG59.pdf
 
Plant Portrait : Ponerorchis graminifolia  by Grahame Ware, Canada

Crocuses from "The Holy Mountain" of Athos, Greece by Jānis Rukšāns,  Latvia

Concrete troughs: man-made mountains text and photos by J. Ian Young, Scotland

If you have a favourite plant genus you’d like to discuss, innovative ideas in cultivation, or some other idea about the world of plants and gardens that is important to you, you are most welcome to contact the IRG Team about it. You can make contact via Editor@internationalrockgardner.net – we look forward to hearing from you.


Crocus athous

[Maggi Young]

The completion of year five - celebrating 60 issues of IRG with a cover painting  of the SRGC emblem, Dryas octopetala by one of our talented artist members, Anne Chambers.
 


Featured plants are Saxifraga dinnikii forma alba and some quite amazingly large Cyclamen  from Greece.
 
Also included is a full index compiled by Glassford Sprunt- decorated  for the first time with a new cover picture - again of our Dryas emblem - this time photographed in Canada by Lori Skulski.

IRG Issue 12 of 2014  #60 : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Dec221419264038IRG60.pdf

Main page with links to all issues of the IRG :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

[Maggi Young]

Corm of Crocus gunae


IRG 61 of January 2015 is a Crocus Special:
Please note there is a new link for IRG 61  : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb011422783332IRG61.pdf


 Dr. Jānis Rukšāns, described by Chris Brickell as a  “journalist, author, nationalist
politician, plantsman, plant breeder, plant explorer,and eminent nurseryman” describes various new Crocus species -
Crocus gunae, Crocus reinhardii  Crocus iranicus
 
Jānis is also a speaker at the SRGC Discussion Weekend in October   http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12742.0
 

Crocus reinhardii

[Maggi Young]

Please note there is a new link for IRG 61  :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb011422783332IRG61.pdf

[Maggi Young]

New Issue : IRG 62 of February 2015 online now !
 
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb261424987169IRG62.pdf


'GRÜNER FAUN'

At this time of year in the northern hemisphere our thoughts are buoyed by the increasing evidence of spring flowers and many of these are “bulbs” in the widest sense.
The passion and fashion for Galanthus continues unabated so we thought a report from landscape architect and galanthophile Hagen Engelmann from Cottbus, on some of his favourite snowdrops, which are not “just white” was appropriate.

Christophe Ruby from the Hof Botanical Garden makes a plea in his article for more enthusiasm for a plant he considers to be too often overlooked for use in our gardens.
Finally, Wim Boens, the Belgian plantsman so active for the VRV provides an update to his previous article on the Genus Eranthis. Yes, this is an issue of IRG heavy with “bulbs” – if you feel this to be an overload then we invite you to submit a piece on a plant that interests you!


Main page for all issues of International Rock Gardener e-magazine   http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international
Up to date Index to IRG always available here http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9567.0

[Maggi Young]

New Issue : IRG 62 of February 2015 online now !
 
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb261424987169IRG62.pdf

New Information from Hagen Engelmann re Galanthus 'FEDERSCHWINGEN' - this plant was found by Kurt Kleisa


Thanks to Hans J. for a note to say that the Austrian Mountains mentioned are the Leitha  Mts. not Laitha. 

[Maggi Young]

In International Rock Gardener 63, March 2015 we have a brief photo report from Mike Kintgen of a trip in South America, undertaken with help from and SRGC grant ; photos from Luc Gilgemyn of  the "plant of the moment" Hepatica ; and an update on the planting of the crevice garden at Bangsbo, in Denmark from Ellen Raebild and Herluf  Johansen - with added comments from Zdenek Zvolanek, who has been involved since the beginning of this ambitious project.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Mar261427382469IRG63.pdf

As usual, the full index has been updated:
http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRGIndex63.pdf

[Maggi Young]

cover photo:  Crocus kofudagensis JJJ-024 in the locus classicus


This month the IRG presents further notes on new and re-classified Crocus species from Dr Jānis Rukšāns.

We also include some photos to give a flavour from the recent Spring Show and Sale of plants held in Prague by our friends in the Klub skalničkářů Praha. Three shows per year are staged in the gardens of the Faust House and St John on the Rock Church on Charles Square (Karlově náměstí) in the beautiful city of Prague. The next exhibition is from  May 6th  to the 23rd. 

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Apr231429824727IRG64.pdf     April 2015 issue

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international   main page for all issues IRG

http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRGIndex64.pdf  latest  index  up to   IRG64


Crocus antalyensioides Alba

[Maggi Young]

The May IRG brings tales of  a small raised crevice bed by Matthew Stuttard + report of  2014 SRGC Summer Day from Tim Ingram and Olga Bondareva - to tempt you for this year's event on 22nd August - and a reminder of the importance of pollinators ......

IRG 65 : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015May301432989668IRG_65_May.pdf

Full IRG Index :  http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRGIndex65.pdf


Antennaria dioica 'Alex Duguid'

[Maggi Young]

International Rock Gardener ISSN 2053-7557 
Issue 66 June 2015 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jun251435252604IRG_66.pdf

Plants  to be seen in spring  in the area of Mt Trevenque in the Spanish Sierra Nevada by Dieter Zschummel  with photos by Dieter and Kirsten Andersen.

Cyclamen elegans discussed by Grahame Ware, photos by  Michael Kammerlander

New galanthus cultivars from Anne Wright  - the Dryad Gold group.


Full index to IRG  http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRGIndex66.pdf
main IRG page   http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

[Maggi Young]

IRG 67  has the second part of the Eijkelenboom report on the orchids of Crete, Zdenek Zvolanek  shows the  landscaping of a trough  in Moravia, and Steve Garvie and Ian Young  show how Dactylorhiza can colonise  troughs and gardens in Scotland

IRG 67 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jul301438283975IRG-67.pdf




Ophrys grigoriana

Full IRG Index : http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRGIndex67.pdf 
IRG main page : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international 

[Maggi Young]

August 2015 IRG 68 - online now:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug261440625534IRG_68.pdf

Robert Pavlis of Guelph, Ontario Canada  is  the author of http://www.gardenmyths.com/
 and owner of Aspen Grove Gardens  discusses a Hylomecon mystery -

Jan Tholhuijsen of Roosendaal in the Southern Netherlands has fun with trough making - 
 
 and there is a plea  for support of the Seed Exchanges not only of the Scottish Rock Garden Club but also of other organisations to which readers may be members, and to support the Seed Photo project of this forum. 

Main page of all issues:
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international
Latest Index
http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRGIndex68.pdf 

[Maggi Young]

International Rock Gardener #69   - Erythronium Special

The IRG for September 2015 is an "Erythronium Special" -  an  issue where the various articles by Ed Alverson from the SRGC website are brought together to give an overview of the discoveries of the species of western America for Ed’s travels in his “Erythronium Big Year” and update them to present them to a new audience.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep251443177809IRG_69_Erythronium_Special.pdf

A full IRG index is available here : http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRG-Index.pdf


cover of IRG 69: Erythronium montanum in Mt Rainier National Park Washington, Ed Alverson