Rock Garden Quarterly

[Lori S.]

It's not here yet!  What sense does that make?  Perhaps it is backlogged by the recent though very brief postal strike.

[McGregor]

Sorry for that Lori. Not sure what the normal time is for it to get to Calgary but it was posted out on the 6th and usually most people have it inside three weeks. So I'd expect it to arrive in the next few days.

[Fermi]

Our copy arrived yesterday - Yay!
Another interesting read awits!
cheers
fermi

[McGregor]

The fall issue of the Quarterly is now in the post (well done again to Allen Press) - so members should be receiving it over the next three weeks. Nice to get it out by the end of September which is on target. And we have a few days of heatwave - hotter than it has been all summer!

As always there are some great pictures in the Quarterly - Stephanie Ferguson gives us the second part of her account of her magnificent crevice garden with pictures of some stunning plants. And among other nice contributions: Rock Gardening from Scratch is about planting containers, David Sellars writes about building a tufa cliff, and Doris Taggart discusses some of the plants that can be seen in the Columbia River Gorge in March (just in time for the Annual Meeting in WA).

Pretty cover as well!

Enjoy
- Malcolm

And for those who wonder what I do the rest of the time - I've been getting my adult students started on their literature course over the last three weeks, and preparing presentations for the Mason-Dixon Chapter on October 15th and two presentations for the New York tri-state meeting on October 16th. Hope to meet up with many of you at one or other of those events.

M

[McDonough]

...and Doris Taggart discusses some of the plants that can be seen in the Columbia River Gorge in March (just in time for the Annual Meeting in WA).

Thanks Malcolm for your continued Herculean efforts!

Now I'm anxious to see if the very rare Allium robinsonii will be among those plants featured from the Columbia River Gorge.
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=2438 
http://web.ewu.edu/ewflora/Liliaceae/Allium%20robinsonii.html
...this image show the habitat, growing in pure sand, amongst scattered rocks of black basalt:
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/imagelarge.php?ImageNumber=379&TaxonID=2438&SourcePage=taxon&


Back in the 1980s I spent a lot of time looking for this rarity, and found it growing among "sand benches", low flat areas just above the high water mark, sharing company with Salvia dorrii
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=2372
...and delightful Erigeron poliospermus:
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=444
http://www.wnps.org/plants/erigeron_poliospermus.html

Magnificent scenery and plants in Columbia River Gorge

Links above have been fixed! - MMcD

[RickR]

We may not always say it Malcolm, but yours (and everyone else's) integral involvement in NARGS never goes unnoticed!

Thank you!

[McGregor]

Sorry Mark - those aren't mentioned (and your links are all identical which makes life more difficult) but if you fancy writing a note on them for the Quarterly as an addition to the piece by Doris please feel free. I'm looking forward to seeing the spring flowers in the CRG - only been there much later.

And thanks Rick & Mark - we all love hearing that people are happy with what we're doing.

[McDonough]

Sorry Mark - those aren't mentioned (and your links are all identical which makes life more difficult) but if you fancy writing a note on them for the Quarterly as an addition to the piece by Doris please feel free. I'm looking forward to seeing the spring flowers in the CRG - only been there much later.

Links in my response above have been fixed!  - Mark

[McGregor]

Just been and looked at the links and Allium robinsonii looks great - unfortunately it's probably not going to be in flower in March but what a stunner!

[McDonough]

Just been and looked at the links and Allium robinsonii looks great - unfortunately it's probably not going to be in flower in March but what a stunner!

Back in the day, in the mid 1980s, I sent bulbs to Kew; I wonder if they still have it in their collection?

[McGregor]

That sounds like you don't still have it.

[Hoy]

Got my copy today Then I know what to do this weekend. . . .

[RickR]

Mine came in the mail yesterday.  Woo hoo!

[Booker]

Mine came in the mail yesterday.  Woo hoo!

No sign of mine yet!  Boo hoo!

[Harold Peachey]

Got mine a few days ago, read through the first evening.  One correction on the article about the Mt. Washington trip, Arthur Haines book is tittled Flora Novae angleae, not The Flora of New England , and is available now.