E-magazine feature on SRGC Website

[Maggi Young]

IRG 70  -  October 2015

Featuring, from America,  Nhu Nguyen of the PBS  and Clay Koplin in Alaska and also seaside plants from Scotland from  Ian Young

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct291446150520IRG70-October2015.pdf

 As usual, a full index to all issues of the IRG is available : http://files.srgc.net/journals/IRG-Index.pdf

[Maggi Young]

 International Rock Gardener  ISSN 2053-7557 
Issue 71 - of November 2015 -   pays tribute to the late Ota Vlasák - one of the Czech Masters
 of Rock Gardening.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov261448562891IRG71November.pdf



International Rock Gardener ISSN 2053-7557      - for  a full  Index to all issues of the IRG  - click HERE   

[Maggi Young]

IRG 72 of December 2015  completes our fifth year. It contains a full index to  all issues and a 2016  Calendar for you to print off  in gratitude for your support through the year.    The calendar photos are from two  great SRGC  members,  Steve Garvie in Scotland and Jamus Stonor in Australia. Thanks to them for their help as well as to all our  contributors throughout the year and to two essential members of the IRG Team; our indexer  Glassford Sprunt and proof reader  Richard Green.

ZZ, Ian and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the very best in the coming year!

M. Y.
 IRG 72  link : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec231450895981IRG_72_plus_Index.pdf


Scabiosa stellata by Jamus  Stonor (Jupiter)

 Page with all issues : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international

[Maggi Young]

The  free monthly e-magazine, International Rock Gardener IRG 73  for January 2016  is online now :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jan281454019772IRG73.pdf

A new species  of Crocus is described by Janis Ruksans, as is a new Galanthus cultivar, 'Longraigue' by Alan Briggs  and last but not least,  some good, readily available  garden plants are  listed to coincide with David Nicholson's  list of Specialist Plant Nurseries

[Maggi Young]

The February issue of IRG is online......

News of the North American Rock Garden Society's planned event at Steamboat Springs  this June .......
Jānis Rukšāns discusses Crocus  naming ....... and Grahame Ware  enthuses over Campanula coriacea.......


Find  IRG 74 HERE

  A full index to IRG is available  HERE   

[Maggi Young]

IRG 75  March 2016 -  David Sharp reports a sojourn in Northern Greece in 2015,  George Garnett shares a version of  his report  to BSBI on Botanising in Guernsey and a series begins of photos of wildflowers  from Stavros Apostolou. 

Find the March 2016 IRG  here:  http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Mar251458913158IRG75.pdf





George Garnett is a young man who shows great determination in pursuing his interest in botany  and the natural world.  He has already participated in an exploration project to the Peruvian Andes; he has completed an RBG Edinburgh field botany course;received a nomination for the Gilbert White youth  award  of the NBN Trust  in recognition of his contribution to terrestrial and freshwater recording and won a BSBI photo competition  - all in all, George is something of an inspiration to us all, not just  school children and students!

[Maggi Young]

N.B.  please note  link for IRG 75 of March 2016 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Mar251458913158IRG75.pdf

[Maggi Young]

International Rock Gardener e-magazine - IRG 76 - of April 2016 is now online :
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Apr281461879792IRG_76.pdf

Wim Boens  discusses Leucojum, which are having something of a rise in interest and Janis Ruksans describes some new Crocus species.  Spring bulbs in profusion!

[Maggi Young]

IRG 77 - May 2016

Canadian David Sellars takes us to Italy SPAIN (can you tell geography is not my strong point?! It's the Giro d'Italia at the moment- I'm distracted!) ), we visit a fine nursery with  a new rock garden in Czechia and learn of a very young horticulturist, Molly Hall from England with an interest in heathers.

It's a bit of a whizz around the world!

IRG 77  - Click HERE to download

 Main page with all issues : HERE

 -  both photos here  by David Sellars

Humming Bird Hawk Moth and Lilium pyrenaicum


Adonis pyrenaica

[Maggi Young]

International Rock Gardener ISSN 2053-7557      - for  a full  Index to all issues of the IRG - click HERE   


   Glassford Sprunt  is our  gallant compiler of the Index - thank you Glassford !

[Maggi Young]

For many SRGC members our interest is as much in “wildflowers” of the mountains and moorlands as in “true alpines” so this month’s IRG article by Ian McDonald is apt.
It is too long since we had an update from Zdeněk Zvolánek about the Beauty Slope – as he calls his steep garden in Karlík – this month we discover what is happening there and in some other Czech gardens.
The cover image is of the Scottish endemic, Primula scotica.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jun231466720211IRG78.pdf

[Maggi Young]

Goodness me, another month has gone by - where does the time go?
IRG 79 for July 2016 is here: 
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jul281469713982IRG79July.pdf

For July IRG 79 ; a little trip to the Netherlands as we learn from two Dutch growers about their approach to garden design and some clever planting solutions. They show how it is possible to accommodate rock garden and alpine plants in novel ways in a garden that can still be family friendly. Gert Hoek from Dronten in Flevoland has moved upwards in his pursuit of more space for his propagation projects and plants in pots while Jan Tholhuijsen, from Roosendaal in North Brabant uses some bright ideas for reusing odd items in various home-made solutions to benefit his garden with intriguing planters.



Cover - IRG 79 July 2016
 
Primula aureata

[Maggi Young]

It is not likely that too many readers - at least in Europe - will be growing Proteas but of course others have more amenable climates for such plants. Robbie Blackhall-Miles FLS is working in Wales on the study of such plants and hopes to  discover in time that more are able to be grown in the UK than was previously imagined.Plants which are already popular and grown with success in many parts of the world are the Hepaticas - we are given tips by Sefi and Fritz Kummert in Austria and  the Forum's Michael Campbell in Co. Clare, Ireland of their methods of growing these plants.
Download the IRG 80 here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Aug251472126130IRG_August_80.pdf
 


Finally, we present an offer to get involved with the printing of a new book and a chance to pre-order.....  read the IRG to learn more -  or click HERE



Be inspired - get involved!

Download the IRG 80 here:
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Aug251472126130IRG_August_80.pdf

[Maggi Young]

Narcissus dubius  photo Gerrit Eijkelenboom

This month we discover what floral pleasures may be found over winter and early spring in Spain - a country where some of us are lucky enough to travel at such times. Gerrit Eijkelenboom tells us about the plants he and his wife, Iep, enjoy while they spend the winter months near Calpe. Matt Topsfield also journeyed to Spain last March - to make a study of the narcissus in flower then, following the earlier example of John Blanchard in 1986 – Matt shares with us here some of the other flowers he found on the trip, which was partly supported by an SRGC Exploration Grant and part “crowd-funded”.

IRG 81  September 2016
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Sep291475167835IRG_81.pdf

[Maggi Young]

..... and further to  Matt's article for  the IRG - Members can read about the narcissus trip in the next issue of /The Rock Garden, in January, or there is even more news here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13808.msg364729#msg364729