Rock Garden Quarterly

I am really enjoying reading through the latest Rock Garden Quarterly. So many great plants and gardens. What a wonder to grow Eritrichium nanum in the garden for ten years!! The borages are a favourite family of mine (but so are quite a few others!) but I have never seen Cynoglossom magellense; it looks quite a plant. David Sellars 'Tufa Cliff' is especially appealing because a project like this has been on my mind for a long time. Many thanks.

Once again, I am still waiting to receive mine - odd that it should get to the UK from a mailing in the US before it gets to Alberta, but who knows how these things work?  ???  
It sounds like another great issue!

I received mine today, and I can see I'll be having a go at it as bedtime reading tonight.
It is a real treat!

The winter issue of the Quarterly is now in the post from Allen Press in Kansas which means that at least a fair number of people will be receiving their copies between Christmas and New Year and the vast majority by the end of the first week in January. That said, last year things did not go so smoothly, whether because of seasonal delays or whatever I do not know. So bear with us - we're doing our best - a first reaction is "Great issue.  Great authors!".

IN the middle of all the woe (about the SeedEx) I'm happy to report that the QUarterly has started to arrive with the first report that's come my way being from Ohio. Hope so many more of you will have it by Christmas and again many many more before New Year.

I just got mine, too! Woo hoo! :D

Thanks Rick (and Saori) - it's always good to get to know that it's arriving and any compliments are always gratefully received.

Mine arrived today in northern New Mexico. I've only read the first couple articles, but it looks like an excellent issue!

So, have other Albertans received this issue by now?  Mine seems to have gone adrift somewhere.

Haven't received mine either, didn't check the mailbox on Friday but tomorrow we'll see. Good old Canada Post, yes, I think they're still catching up with Christmas leftovers....

Well, that's good to hear...  I suppose.  
I always wonder, when things seem to go astray, whether they have been delivered to the wrong house.  Believe it or not, there are two other houses a few blocks down the street that have the same house number as ours - both of them are corner houses and they have their house numbers facing onto the avenue, rather than on to the street as they should be, so their addresses are often mistaken for ours.  
The regular postal carriers know the neighborhood, and are rarely fooled by this.  (Parcel delivery folks are often misled, though... the residents  at these addresses are very kind in bringing misdelivered parcels to us a few times a year... but it would be easier for them and us if they'd just move their damn house numbers to the street side of their houses!  >:()  

I'm hoping (it's not a lot more than hoping tho) that people will get their Quarterly by January 7th. That was my target. Canada seems to be on a similar timescale to us in the UK - last time I think it appeared in Australia before it got here.

Hope you all don't have to wait too long and that you feel it's worth the wait when it does come.

Very best and Happy New Year to everyone

I just got mine today and I can hardly wait to dig in and enjoy it. 

Lori that has to be terribly annoying that the neighbours down the street don't have the house numbers where they should be.  Way too easy for mail to go astray.
Hope you get your Quarterly asap!
Faith

.... and it's got to England today as well ...

I got mine on Vancouver Island yesterday - enjoying it a lot.  Lori hope you get yours soon - the island usually takes a lot longer to deliver than Calgary - island time and all that.

Got mine yesterday too, and have spent some very enjoyable time browsing through it.  The new layout is great - very bright and new!

Am enjoying the latest Quarterly - notably Lori Chips article on 'Seed Crimes' and Bobby Ward's 'Bookshelf'. I like Lori's comment about 'chipping' legume seed and keeping small seed in the packet; I've never thought of this! Large seed like Erythrina and Sophora secundiflora have the opposite problem, it takes half an hour to file through the seed coat! Bobby Ward's article was especially interesting because I know a little of nature writing from the States and such a subject rarely crops up in the AGS Bulletin. It provides a perspective on the plants we grow and our environment which I find very enlightening. I would love to hear more about figures like Claude Barr, Lincoln Foster and more recently Wayne Roderick.

Mark, Trond, Jenny

You were all on the mailing list for the latest issue so your copy should be crawling towards you. I would like to say I understand why some people get their's quickly and others take so long but I can't. It baffles me why some people have to wait so long.

Very best

Malcolm

Hooray!!!!    :D :D :D

New issue of the Quarterly (Spring 2012) has been dispatched to members from Allen Press in Kansas. Managed to get the whole thing completed, layouts, proofreading, color proofing etc before we set off for the Annual Meeting in Everett - so it's on its way!!

We just got back to the UK on Saturday evening after the Annual Meeting and then another week with presentations in Vancouver and Calgary - thanks to all those involved with all of that - great fun. And if you're expecting a reply to an email all I can say is that I'm working my way through a stack - should be up to date by beginning of next week.

Deadline for next issue is May 1st but if you have to have something in it would be good if you get in touch before then.

Hi Peden

You've obviously not only received but really got stuck into the Spring Quarterly - whereabouts are you? Nice to know where gets copies quickly.
And would you like to write up your comments for the next issue for me - maybe with a pic or two.

Malcolm