International Rock Gardener e-magazine

[IMYoung]

I'm very pleased with the layout of my serpentine article...looks great! (or course the entire IRG looks great!)

Thanks, Todd.

We've added a 'paypal donate button' so that folks who appreciate the work the SRGC volunteers are doing with the website projects can show their appreciation in a tangible fashion, should they so wish!  Such donations will help to pay for the increased bandwidth needed for all the IRG and Bulb Log readers 

[IMYoung]

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.

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

[IMYoung]

Oops! I quite forgot to let you Folks know that the June IRG is online......many thanks to the NARGS member who reminded me

IRG  June 2011 is here - http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Jun271309163193IRG18-June2011.pdf


As a seeming antidote to all those summer holiday venues, there's a trip to the Awakino Ski Field in New Zealand     Don't panic, this is the southern hemisphere we're talking about, so Steve Newall's pictures are of some of NZ's finest alpine plants... but no snow!!

This map shows the location.....

[Spiegel]

Yet another fascinating issue, Maggi.  You just keep topping yourself.  I'll be on the lookout for the Leptinella pictured.  There is something absolutely irresistible about plants with exserted stamens (Phacelia sericea, Valeriana supina etc.)

[IMYoung]

Thanks Anne.

There is something absolutely irresistible about plants with exserted stamens

Yes, isn't there? Funny how these things catch our attentioin and admiration.

In the next issue there are echoes of the latest NARGS bulletin, with reports from the Picos de Europa from the Czech pairing of Cedrik and Štěpánka  Haškovec .... I think there will be much to please readers 

[IMYoung]

Apologies to those of you trying to acces the SRGC website and Forum today, 26th July 2011 and contacting me to ask what is wrong. 
Our server is experiencing some sort of technical disruption and the sites are temporarily inaccessible.
Sorry for any inconvenience... at least we have the NARGS Forum to enjoy !
Will  make another post to let you know when "normal service" is resumed


Maggi

[McDonough]

Apologies to those of you trying to acces the SRGC website and Forum today, 26th July 2011 and contacting me to ask what is wrong. 
Our server is experiencing some sort of technical disruption and the sites are temporarily inaccessible.
Sorry for any inconvenience... at least we have the NARGS Forum to enjoy !
Will  make another post to let you know when "normal service" is resumed


Maggi

Thanks for letting us know Maggi,

I was wondering what's up with the connection, assuming the SRGC server was down for some reason.  Hope that service is restored soon, imagine the withdrawal SRGC Forumists will be going through

[IMYoung]

Getting my "fix" happily here in the meantime, Mark.... so many threads to catch up on

[IMYoung]

After brief spell back in operation the SRGC Server has failed again.... sorry Folks!

[IMYoung]

Okay, after some stops and starts I think the SRGC site and Forum is back in operation.
Sorry for the disruption Folks, wish we could control such things.

[IMYoung]

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 the wonderful Seed Exchanges of all the main plant organisations  such as NARGS, SRGC and AGS that can give you access to such seed and also support them 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


There is more about the IRG here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?board=34.0   

[IMYoung]

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

[McDonough]

Maggi, I've tried downloading the August PDF both from the link here on NARGS, and from the main IRG page, and it starts downloading then gives a message that it cannot download the file because it is damaged. Does anyone else get the same results I'm getting? Maybe the PDF needs to be reposted?

Update:  I'm getting the same error message on any IRG issue I try to download and view.

[Hoy]

Maggi, I've tried downloading the August PDF both from the link here on NARGS, and from the main IRG page, and it starts downloading then gives a message that it cannot download the file because it is damaged. Does anyone else get the same results I'm getting? Maybe the PDF needs to be reposted?

Update:  I'm getting the same error message on any IRG issue I try to download and view.

No, Mark. I download all of them with no trouble at all. Each download in about to seconds.

[Michael J Campbell]

The same thing happened me,I downloaded Adobe reader update ( reader update 10) and it worked perfect then.