International Rock Gardener e-magazine

[Todd Boland]

I haven't commented but let me assure you these IRG are second to none!  The article are so interesting, informative and well done with stunning photography to boot!

[IMYoung]

Your kind words are much appreciated by the Team, Todd.

We were just thinking how it would be good to have an article from Newfoundland......she said, hinting shamelessly......

[AmyO]

Thank-you so much for every issue...they are full of inspiring articles and I too am enjoying the one on trough building. I plan to create a small crevice garden around a large boulder. I've got a few pieces of tufa and ready access to lots of stone slabs perfect for creating crevices! Can't wait for spring to get here!

[Todd Boland]

I'm way ahead of you...have plans to do an article on the serpentine alpines of Newfoundland 

[Booker]

I'm way ahead of you...have plans to do an article on the serpentine alpines of Newfoundland  

Excellent Todd ... we await it with great anticipation!

Typing this on my laptop in a Best Western Hotel, near Malpenza airport, Milan after our flight to Manchester this afternoon was cancelled and we have been advised by our carrier that we MAY be on a flight tomorrow morning or we may not?  We have had the most amazing vacation by and around beautiful Lake Como (seeing incredible primulas, hepaticas, hellebores in white, pink and yellow, crocus, tussilago and ajugas among others), the weather has been beautiful and our trips into Switzerland, up to Snow Eagle in northern Italy and the stunning mountain areas near Sondrio have enhanced an already incredible holiday. Hopefully we will get home tomorrow ... touch wood!

[IMYoung]

I'm way ahead of you...have plans to do an article on the serpentine alpines of Newfoundland 

 Hurray! 


 Amy....Thank you!  This is just the effect we hope these articles will have, to encourage  folks to have a go themselves at these constructions..... great fun and a good home for the alpines. 

[Todd Boland]

Great images Cliff...as per usual!

[deesen]

Typing this on my laptop in a Best Western Hotel, near Malpenza airport, Milan after our flight to Manchester this afternoon was cancelled and we have been advised by our carrier that we MAY be on a flight tomorrow morning or we may not?  

I've already painted the banner "Bring the Bookeroo Home" I'll be outside 10 Downing Street in the morning

[cohan]

I'm way ahead of you...have plans to do an article on the serpentine alpines of Newfoundland  

Excellent Todd ... we await it with great anticipation!

Typing this on my laptop in a Best Western Hotel, near Malpenza airport, Milan after our flight to Manchester this afternoon was cancelled and we have been advised by our carrier that we MAY be on a flight tomorrow morning or we may not?  We have had the most amazing vacation by and around beautiful Lake Como (seeing incredible primulas, hepaticas, hellebores in white, pink and yellow, crocus, tussilago and ajugas among others), the weather has been beautiful and our trips into Switzerland, up to Snow Eagle in northern Italy and the stunning mountain areas near Sondrio have enhanced an already incredible holiday. Hopefully we will get home tomorrow ... touch wood!

Good luck with the travel! Lovely images of spring

[Booker]

Many thanks for your support David ... British diplomacy worked, we arrived home at lunchtime on Saturday.  Now we have to fight for some meagre compensation ... wish us luck, we will need it!  

Thanks once again Cohan.

[IMYoung]

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  on an Iris "re-found" in Afghanistan


Picture: Ranunculus glacialis photo by Zoltan Ferenc.

[IMYoung]

I'm way ahead of you...have plans to do an article on the serpentine alpines of Newfoundland 

 And in issue 16 of IRG we have that very article!

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

[Tim Ingram]

What a wonderful resource the IRG is - I've only discovered it through this website as I am ashamed to say I don't belong to the Scottish Rock (I have thought of joining for many years but always felt the South-East of England and Scotland were poles apart climate wise - although I regularly got seed from Jack Drake's nursery years ago). However, like you say elsewhere, Ian, the ethos of the SRGC lies much closer to my vision of gardening, and it seems a great surprise that the AGS remains rather resistant to any change. Having only recently realised how effective the web can be for discussion I am becoming a total convert. My only worry is that I may not get out in the garden as much as I would like!

[IMYoung]

Thank you, Tim.... we do hope to get that reaction for the IRG!

The SRGC has an international membership and a truly active international membership at that.... the Forum of the SRGC Website, which we are delighted to say formed part of the model for this NARGS Forum, is a meeting place for our thousands of members around the world and is a vibrant resource that is open to all, whether "official" SRGC members or not.... how else could we properly fulfil our charitable remit to spread knowledge and encourage interest in the mountain plants that so fascinate us?
You would soon find that there are a great many others involved in the SRGC with similar growing conditions to yourself.... not least fellow English folk!

Maggi Young

[Todd Boland]

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