E-magazine feature on SRGC Website

[Maggi Young]

Sorry, there's a mistake:
"In IRG13 we visited the Northern Ireland garden of Joan and Liam as they constructed a crevice garden"

 Oops, typo... that should be  IRG 14 February 2011
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Feb241298591020IRG14_Feb_2011.pdf

 Edit by Maggi: the typo is corrected now and the IRG15  can be found here...
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Mar251301088655IRG15_March_2011.pdf

[Maggi Young]

IRG16 for April 2011 is now online.....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Apr281304030775IRG16_April2011.pdf

The cover photo is  Tulipa orthopoda by Vladimir Kolbintsev, formerly a research scientist at the Aksu-Dzhabagly nature reserve and regarded Kazakhstan‘s leading naturalist.

Also included are articles by Dieter Zschummel ,Todd Boland, Cedrik Haškovec and Štěpánka Haškovcová.



Moltkia coerulea in the Ala Dag

[Maggi Young]

IRG 17 for May 2011 is now online:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011May261306444476IRGMay2011.pdf

We celebrate the centenary of the rock garden at Wisley, with Paul Cumbleton and introduce a new section in the IRG Forum area, devoted to the Garden History  : http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7231.0      Dr John Page is well known for his interest in this subject and welcomes any contributions to the Forum pages on the history of gardens , particularly rock gardens, around the world.

There is also an article from ZZ on the English primula grower and tufa  fan, David Philbey. 

This month's IRG cover picture is  Campanula morettiana, photographed by Gita Piatková of the Czech Republic.



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[Maggi Young]

IRG for JUNE 2011 is now online.   http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Jun271309163193IRG18-June2011.pdf


A mix of plants and places around the world to please those of us not off on our own travels this summer!

Steve Newall of New Zealand gives an insight into one of the South Island's regions, as shown on this map.....

[Maggi Young]

Time for a new IRG edition: http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Jul281311872373IRG19.pdf

This month's IRG has contributions from Jules Fouarge, Cedrik and Štěpánka Haškovec, Zdeněk Zvolánek and  J. Ian Young.

There is talk of Campanulas, Gentians and  Hypericums, from Turkey and the Himalayas,  as well as visits to the Picos de Europa and the Cascades.

If the IRG is showing you plants that you would love to grow, remember our wonderful Seed Exchange that can give you access to such seed and also support it with donations of seed from your own garden.

These photos of orchids from the Picos de Europa are from the Haškovecs.
Ophrys apifera
Orchis provincialis

[Maggi Young]

August 2011 issue of IRG is now online ..... we return to the subject of Campanula morettiana, and hear more from Cedrik and Štěpánka Haškovec   .....

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

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Aug251314305515IRG20August_2011.pdf - for August Issue

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7778.0   for further item and photos

[Maggi Young]

 We welcome new contributor Grahame Ware to the September 2011 issue of IRG  which is now online :

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


There are some "extras" to IRG 21 here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7893.0

More photos, links and so on.  

Many thanks to Glassford Sprunt and Richard Green, the IRG proof-readers.  Glassford is also  the compiler  of the IRG index, as well as the index for The Rock Garden.



 Edit by M: My apologies for getting Richard's name quite wrong... he is Richard Green, not Webb as I first wrote..... you see why I need  good proof readers, eh?!!    

[Maggi Young]

October IRG is online...... http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Oct271319742037IRG22October_2011.pdf
 we hope there is something there to interest you.

Here is a pdf Index of the IRG (complete up to and including this current issue) compiled by Glassford Sprunt

 IRG Index - up to #22.pdf (306.95 kB - downloaded 2066 times.)

[Maggi Young]

The November Issue of IRG is online now  http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Nov241322170676IRG_23_-_November2011_.pdf

We return to the ever popular subject of Turkey and her plants .... this country is, of course, species rich and the appetite to learn more of the plants who inhabit that large and diverse region seems undimmed.

For the bulb lovers, J. Ian Young encourages an interest in the dwarf narcissus of the "hoop petticoat" type, so invaluable for flowering through the northern hemisphere winter as well as into spring. 

[Maggi Young]

Two years completed 

Friends, the December issue of IRG is now online.
A slight departure from our usual format, as you will see.   

Thanks to all our contributors and helpers over the year and to those who have given encouragement. 
To Glassford Sprunt and Richard Green for their proof-reading, Maggi gives particular thanks.

Glassford continues to prepare the IRG Index and the up to date index for all 24 issues is included in the December 2011 issue.

With kindest regards for a Good New Year !

https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Dec281325076523IRG24December2011.pdf

[Maggi Young]

Welcome to a new year of IRG.

The January issue is now online, beginning with a look back to some plants that are popular now as they were forty years ago. Some things never change, it seems.

Grahame Ware explores his affection for a little snapdragon and Fritz Kummert shares his delight in an unassuming Idaho native. 

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Jan251327507359IRG25-Jan2012.pdf

[Maggi Young]

February's issue of IRG is now online :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Feb241330043727IRG_26_Feb2012.pdf


Richard Green, one of the IRG team in Scotland,  gives  tips on how to become an international rock gardener by embarking upon foreign travel. The well known duo of Kirsten Andersen and Lars Hansen from Denmark introduce us to a some Daphnes.

The cover photo shows an Israeli iris in snow.... not in its homeland, where it has seen such conditions only once in the last century, but in the garden of bulb lover Hans Achilles in the Balearic Islands 
More photos of that iris in Hans' garden and coming into flower in  Israel, photos from Fred Depalle, in this thread : http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8382.0


ZZ gets confused by a stone cress  and we consider the origins of a cheery Scots broom........

[Maggi Young]

March issue of IRG is now online:  https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Apr031333442629IRG27-March2012.pdf
This month we have:
The promise of primulas to come from John Mattingley, of Cluny Gardens in Perthshire, Scotland.

Dieter Zschummel introduces some quite enchanting annual gentians from China.

Gerd Knoche muses on some of his favourite violas - this time some yellow flowered species.

Kata Jozsa and Ferenc Zoltan  have photos of Crocus vernus subsp. albiflorus, tempting us to the Dolomites later in the year.... which leads us to a note about a new book which we think will become essential for any traveller to those mountains.

[Maggi Young]

Hello Friends,
 the April 2012 issue of IRG is now online

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Apr261335475783IRG28-April2012.pdf

we hope you enjoy it 

Link to  paper on Ranunculus wettsteinii https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256585993_Allopolyploid_origin_of_the_Balkan_endemic_Ranunculus_wettsteinii_%28Ranunculaceae%29_inferred_from_nuclear_and_plastid_DNA_sequences?showFulltext=true

[Maggi Young]

The May 2012 issue of IRG is now online. http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012May241337894269IRG29-May2012.pdf

This month there are Tecophilaeas to charm you in shades of blue, Penstemons in shades of red and an Aconitum with wine-red promise.

We also catch up with the Primulas at Cluny.

And I can report that the sun has arrived in Scotland - this may even be Summer!