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This guestbook is no longer operational and has been left as an archive of previous visitors. Please use the new guestbook which can be accessed by clicking HERE From: Ian Lester Date: Friday 22 October 2004 Comment: lovely site. Love the bulblog From: Gail Coady Date: Wednesday 20 October 2004 Comment: Hi Ian, I was quite impressed with your talk on bulbs at the Mun Botanical Gardens in St. John's and couldn't resist a look at your web site. I wasn't dissapointed!!! From: Boyce Tankersley Date: Wednesday 13 October 2004 Comment: Very nice site. Certainly well designed to serve the existing membership and recruit new members. The plant related information is superb. From: Mrs.K.M.Chester Date: Wednesday 13 October 2004 Comment: Good site and easy to use From: Tammy Harkness Date: Sunday 10 October 2004 Comment: We just enjoyed a delightful program from Ian Young, your past president, at our local chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society. I came to this website to find his website on bulb cultivation. While here, I enjoyed your website! From: Fuyuki Shibata (JAPAN) Date: Saturday 9 October 2004 Comment: Serching JPG of Cyclamen guided me to your site in Japan...How wonderful site you have! In 1998 I was living in England (Surrey), but did not know your activity, so did not arrive Scotland...what a regret! From: Dorothy Henderson Date: Thursday 30 September 2004 Comment: Your website is most informative and instructive. I only wish I could avail of your seed exchange as I am always on the lookout for new and varied types of plants for my garden. Being from Newfoundland, I can identify with the growing conditions in Scotland. I am also as you can guess from the name of Scottish heritage (3 generation) I would like to continue to visit your site from time to time. From: Lesley Butler Date: Thursday 9 September 2004 Comment: Your site is well presented, attractive, full of information & inspiration! Haven't had time to fully explore but I will! From: Mrs Marion Jeffrey Date: Saturday 4 September 2004 Comment: I love your site. Great information. I will add it to my favourites. From: Pam Bryson Date: Friday 3 September 2004 Comment: Fantastic, Thank you so much!!! From: Jan Rogozinski Date: Wednesday 1 September 2004 Comment: Never noticed it before but Ian Young's Bulblog is sensational - thanks. From: Harold McBride Date: Thursday 26 August 2004 Comment: Very enjoyable visit I plan to become a regular From: Jean Bunkall Date: Thursday 26 August 2004 Comment: I regularly look at Ian Young's bulblog - it's fascinating and brilliant. Thanks for the brief oasis this gives! From: Pamela J DeLong, CT,USA Date: Tuesday 24 August 2004 Comment: Realy enjoyed your site - just getting involved with alpine plants this year. They are doing well but I'm always looking for info to improve by gardens. Thanks!! From: Brenda, Reading Date: Monday 23 August 2004 Comment: Thanks for an excellent site. I'm new to alpines - just had a new garden constructed. Great advice and pictures do I can see what i want to plant. I'll be a regular here! From: M.Heaney Date: Thursday 12 August 2004 Comment: Great site, Great pictures. I found this site while searching for 'plants for dry shade'. I must say the pictures of Houttuynia Cordata 'Chameleon' look great. Any idea where I might obtain it. M. Heaney From: Ian MacRae Date: Thursday 12 August 2004 Comment: Nice website; seedlist is now 'out of date'; I've recently joined club. I've bookmarked the site and I'll certainly call again! From: j davey Date: Sunday 1 August 2004 Comment: more on frittillaries would be extra good From: margaret rideout Date: Sunday 25 July 2004 Comment: Well designed site.loved the photos From: Bruce Wodland Date: Sunday 11 July 2004 Comment: My first visit to this site, which deserves all the praise heaped on you by earlier visitors. I shall return! Great source for a Newfoundland gardener on "the other side of the pond"! From: Barbara henderson Date: Saturday 10 July 2004 Comment: First visit which I enjoyed. I shall be back again soon. From: Margie Magowan Date: Wednesday 7 July 2004 Comment: Great web design! Very informative with superb photography. From: Margaret Miller Date: Sunday 4 July 2004 Comment: I discovered this site whilst browsing the BBC's Gardening pages, as I love alpines and rock gardens I will definately browse again. I live in south-west Scotland. From: ONYE-OLU Date: Tuesday 29 June 2004 Comment: love your site,where can i buy this plant or seeds From: Bryce Eddings Date: Wednesday 16 June 2004 Comment: Thanks for the site. From: Longin Warchała-Poland Date: Friday 28 May 2004 Comment: Congratulations! I'm the old lover of rock plants and your web site is for me very useful . From: Sheena Fraser Date: Wednesday 26 May 2004 Comment: Wonderful plants Superb photography Greatly enthused From: Jill Muscarelli Date: Wednesday 26 May 2004 Comment: This is so interesting! Living in Montana, USA, we are surrounded by alpine wildflowers and there is no shortage of rocks, as you can imagine! I am always interested in addding to and improving my flower beds...most recent project is a dry-stacked stone wall I built from beautifully colored chunks of native shale. That's how I stumbled onto your website. There is so much to the world of rock gardening and most of this is new to me. Thanks for the information. From: Sue Wright Date: Monday 24 May 2004 Comment: Hello, What a terrific site for Alpines! Though really I stopped by to view Dumpling (as directed by Fred) and those beautiful babes. Thank you so much for enabling me to look at their step by step growth, it's been wonderful, but the photo where the eldest chick has it's wing over the other is so very heart-warming. Thank you so much for that wonderful opportunity Ian, a wonderful record of Nature. Many thanks to you too Fred! A terrific site and I'll be back to look at those Alpines again - magnificent. So many thanks, Sue. From: ronnie loveland Date: Friday 30 April 2004 Comment: first look on davie's computer IMPRESSED!!! From: Mick Nolan Date: Thursday 29 April 2004 Comment: Nice site, will add to my favorites From: Robin Brunton Date: Thursday 22 April 2004 Comment: Well designed site -will be helpfull with my in progress Vancouver Island rockgarden From: Colleen Denysiuk Date: Tuesday 20 April 2004 Comment: I need to know if I can grow "Scottish Heather" in Winnipeg, MB (Canada). But am not sure how to find this type of info from this site. HELP! Other than that it is set up with the most amazing pictures! From: Anne Stalker Date: Tuesday 20 April 2004 Comment: Excellent site.Will visit again From: Danna Finney Date: Monday 19 April 2004 Comment: This is a great site and I will be back for to look more! Thanks From: MICHEL Date: Tuesday 30 March 2004 Comment: You have a very nice site, that let me dream. I HAVE SEVERAL ALPINE AND ROCK GARDEN SEEDS TO TRADE. From: Brenda Date: Monday 29 March 2004 Comment: Great site, an very informative, as a Master Gardner in Seneca County, a plus for a research stop!! Keep up the good work. From: Roger Cove Date: Wednesday 24 March 2004 Comment: Great site. The bulb log has taught me alote. Many thanks. From: Marilyn Date: Tuesday 23 March 2004 Comment: I am from Keystone Heights FL USA. I really loved this site and the pictures of the different flowers. They were absolutely breathtaking. I was looking for a specific plant but could not find it in your snapshots. But, I will bookmark this and look again at them more slowly. Thank you. From: Gary Gossett Date: Sunday 21 March 2004 Comment: Exciting site, The world of alpines is drawing me. I recently joined. From: Martin Mason Date: Saturday 20 March 2004 Comment: Fast and friendly website. Would that they were all like this! From: Marilee Schneider Date: Friday 19 March 2004 Comment: Landscaping a woodland garden for the Pacific Northwest. Looking for ideas, thanks for the cool website. From: pam mackenzie Date: Tuesday 16 March 2004 Comment: we have almosthalf an acre of decrofted grazing to turn into a garden, a rock garden would be the obvious choice. Having found your web site by chance I had a look and found it so easy to use.Membership seems like a good idea,SRGC could be just what we need with the task ahead. From: Leland Gage (USA) Date: Friday 12 March 2004 Comment: I have been looking for info on the SRGC site regarding the status of the USA seed (seed exchange) shipment. It was easily found (status) last year. From: Paula Bergeson Date: Thursday 4 March 2004 Comment: Hi - I love the web site and all its facilities, also the Journal - noted with intrest a 'New Zealand Day' tobe held in August - can't find any additional info on it however, could somebody please e-mail or whatever relevant data. I would travel up from Halifax, W. Yorks to attend with a friend - make a few days of it and visit any loal nurseries, etc. Many thanks - Paula From: Carol Eads Date: Thursday 4 March 2004 Comment: Ian Christie's notes are such a wealth of information! I garden here in South Central Alaska Zone 3 in Seward on the coast. Have hundreds of rock garden seeds to plant! A little soon now, but will start the first ones in 2 weeks. From: Peter Kohn Date: Sunday 29 February 2004 Comment: Can't think why I haaven't visited the new look site sooner. From: Ingvild Sigstad Begg Date: Friday 27 February 2004 Comment: As ususal a pleasure to look at the site. From: fred bonthuis Date: Wednesday 25 February 2004 Comment: very good site i hope that it will be enlarged specialy the plant photo site From: Peter Poot, Ontario, CA Date: Tuesday 24 February 2004 Comment: Thank you for the pictures. wish there were more! From: Joan Paletz Date: Monday 23 February 2004 Comment: Great site,very interesting,I will be back again soon. We have just started our own web site, http://www.geocities.com/rayleighhorticulturalsociety/ From: David Underwood Date: Saturday 21 February 2004 Comment: EXCELLENT From: Phyllis Petrovich Date: Tuesday 17 February 2004 Comment: The site looks good I visit often also the forum. Lots of information. From: Carole Bainbridge Date: Tuesday 17 February 2004 Comment: Site is looking really good. Thanks to all involved. From: Robert Dokka Date: Sunday 15 February 2004 Comment: Enjoyed your site.Looking for information on Meconopsis cultivation in our marine environment of Washington State From: Irma Palm Date: Friday 13 February 2004 Comment: Very impressive and I am glad that you have come this far Irma Palm Sweden (member) From: Francine Riez-Duquesne Date: Wednesday 11 February 2004 Comment: I was looking for a photo of Codonopsis bhutanica because my seeds are coming very promtly. I have photos of C. forrestii, C. vinciflora, C. tangshen. The first Arisaema is coming out of the soil = A. limbatum. Your site is new but I will follow the progresses From: Clay Koplin Date: Tuesday 10 February 2004 Comment: I was pointed to srgc by the fritillaria group of the Alpine Garden Society to Ian Young's bulb log. I live in south coastal Alaska, near a vast glacial delta of sand and well drained soil similar to Holland. Salmon (copper river, the highest quality in the world) is my communities' industry, and the waste provides a stream for composting with local spruce. I am beginning the cultivation of frit. camscatcensis, and am pulling together all the cultural resources I can, and growing others frits because of my fascination with them. Your site looks fantastic, and as soon as I sign in, will jump into it. From: shirley porter Date: Monday 9 February 2004 Comment: Wonderful, informative site. Having visited Scottish rock gardens I am interested in starting my own here in Cloverdale, B. C. Canada. From: Ronald Davis Date: Sunday 8 February 2004 Comment: A great site thanks to all how provide it From: Helga Smith Date: Tuesday 3 February 2004 Comment: Wonderful website to visit when winterweather From: Peter Maguire Date: Friday 30 January 2004 Comment: Congratulations on the new look website. I never did find out how to register for the forums previously; having now done so, I hope to contribute pictures etc. From: alan briggs Date: Thursday 29 January 2004 Comment: definitely an inspiring site. the bulbs are working their magic way down here in Bedfordshire too From: Jane Chatterton Date: Tuesday 27 January 2004 Comment: A truly informative site. So much to learn and information easily available at the click of a mouse. Those raised beds are a bit different to fish boxes! From: SOULOUMIAC Marcel-André Date: Monday 26 January 2004 Comment: Bravo pour ce site merveilleux. Les photos sont superbes. Je reviendrai souvent rêver sur votre site. From: Stephanie Harper Date: Monday 26 January 2004 Comment: Brilliant site - especially living so close in the NW Highlands. Great info. full marks From: Davie Sharp Date: Monday 26 January 2004 Comment: The Web folk's dinae hing aboot! Top marks for presentation and imagination! From: violet armstrong savannah, ga. Date: Sunday 25 January 2004 Comment: loved your site bumbleded on it while looking for info on cyclamens' I'll be back From: Douglas Mongerson Date: Sunday 21 December 2003 Comment: I read about the Bulb Log earlier in the year on Alpine-l but have only just now gotten around to really looking it over. It is wonderful! I especially enjoy reading about how a first rate plantsman actually achieves his successes. I am glad to learn that it will be continued next year. This is a very useful resource From: John Forrest Date: Saturday 20 December 2003 Comment: Congratulations on the excellent 'new look' Seed Exchange List. It is not only easy to use but will also help towards sorting out the problems of misnaming. Well done to all the team involved. From: Elaine Lynch Date: Thursday 18 December 2003 Comment: I have revisited the bulb log site and the information is fantastic. Ian please continue the good work. From: Bjørn Heiseberg Date: Sunday 14 December 2003 Comment: The bulblog is some of the best things that I have seen for years, and I am very happy to read that it will be there for the next year too. From: Anne Wright Date: Saturday 13 December 2003 Comment: The Bulb log is great, please continue! From: John Gill Date: Wednesday 19 November 2003 Comment: Following the visit by Ian to Leeds I would like to say that I am quite amazed at the bulb site. It really is unbleavable. From: Bette Ivey. Date: Monday 17 November 2003 Comment: My first visit to the site now that I've been shot into 21st Century! This is abolutely the tops. Will be back for more. From: Frank Gardner - Kingswells Date: Wednesday 12 November 2003 Comment: excellant site with lots of lovely photographs. Ian you have done a bloody good job well done From: Elaine Lynch Date: Monday 10 November 2003 Comment: After Ian's talks to the West Yorkshire & South Yorkshire Group I just had to visit this site. I am not disappointed, the bulb log book is superb. Will be back. From: Sonya Walker Date: Monday 10 November 2003 Comment: Wonderful! Suffering from information overload having read part of the bulb log book. I will be back. From: Rene Blom Date: Sunday 9 November 2003 Comment: Great Site, Is it possible to make link's to members Website's. I am trying to make one see http://members.home.nl/rene.blom/Index.htm From: Peter Hemsley Date: Friday 7 November 2003 Comment: Congratulations on a fabulous site and thanks to an AGS member for telling me about it. The bulb log is superb and full of useful practical hints from a very skillful grower. From: Anita Bladh Date: Wednesday 5 November 2003 Comment: This must be one of the best sites.I love it From: Charlotte Jacobson Date: Monday 20 October 2003 Comment: As a member of the SRGC for many years but a newcomer to the computer age I offer my congratulations on the site and the Club. From: Adrian Bliss Date: Sunday 5 October 2003 Comment: Greetings from NZ, Congratulations on an excellent site.Visit regularly particularly the bulb log. Spring has sprung but snow at low levels on the southern alps,frosts causing havoc on spring growth.Regards. From: Doreen Mear (an English member now living in NZ) Date: Monday 29 September 2003 Comment: Thanks to all involved for this wonderful site, especially Ian's Bulb Log and terrific photos. The stuff dreams are made of, thanks to NZ's agricultural import restrictions, I'm afraid (though how come the bittercress and vine weevils got admitted, I ask myself?!) Keep it up! From: Ron Meijer (Netherlands) Date: Sunday 7 September 2003 Comment: Great site, loved the hints on the seedlist as well as the pictures on that page. Anyone out there interested in eachanging seed with this Dutch Alpine Society member? Would love Erythronium! From: Karol Buchanan Date: Monday 25 August 2003 Comment: We have the closed gentians gowing wild in our pasture. I had no idea there are so many different kinds. What a joy to browse thru the photos. It's a lovely website. From: Marj Smith Date: Monday 25 August 2003 Comment: Pleased to find your site from web search. Am fanatical plant collector in Tasmania. Interested in alpines Will be joining. Great site! From: Peter Nussbaumer Date: Thursday 14 August 2003 Comment: srgc , is always the best From: Geoff Smart (Abdn) Date: Wednesday 13 August 2003 Comment: At last I found a 'Scottish' site for bulbs & good advice on how you can grow them from seeds. From: Carole Bainbridge Date: Thursday 7 August 2003 Comment: Bulb log is looking good, keep up the good work. From: David Blay Date: Thursday 24 July 2003 Comment: Pity I cannot spell From: David Blay Date: Thursday 24 July 2003 Comment: Just browsing and found the bulb log, as someone with an interest in growing bulbs from seed (SRGC seed ofcourse)and having some success I fing every edition a fascinating learning process. Congratulations! All I need now is more space. From: Will Watson Ayrshire Group Date: Saturday 12 July 2003 Comment: Great site , we must update our page.Sorry we missed Gardening Scotland 2003 as on hols but congratulations have realy enjoyed looking at the pictures on the site, it looked wonderful, if only we had the same plants for the Ayr Flower show in August From: Davie Sharp Date: Tuesday 8 July 2003 Comment: I thought I would give all the contributors encouragement and my best wishes, thanks for imparting your knowledge to all and entertaining me. Thanks From: Sam England Date: Monday 7 July 2003 Comment: Forum is excellent 5 Star! From: ZOE SMITH Date: Wednesday 25 June 2003 Comment: THIS HAS BEEN A PLEASANT SURPRISE - CAME ACROSS THE WEB SITE BY MISTAKE - BUT I WILL BE COMING BACK THANKYOU From: Kristina L. Bielenberg, 1685 East Hill Road, Marshfield, VT 05658 U.S.A. Date: Sunday 1 June 2003 Comment: I will be visiting Scotland in mid-September, staying near Kirkcubright. Are there any Scottish Rock Garden Club members in the area that I should visit? Please advise. Thank you. Clu From: Andy Swayne Date: Friday 25 April 2003 Comment: I am trying to make a Mediterranean rock garden in sussex! Can any one point me in the right direction for books / information on this subject. From: Sheila Doak Date: Wednesday 23 April 2003 Comment: By accident or fate clicked on something and there you were. Thank you for a wonderful site. Victoria, British Columbia, Canad From: Paula Bergeson Date: Wednesday 23 April 2003 Comment: Just discovered the sight whilst visiting in the USA have just started in Alpines in West Yorks. and am thoroughly enjoying it. Will join your Society next year I think. I will keep checking this site when I et home. From: Chris Garland (NZ) Date: Thursday 17 April 2003 Comment: First visit to your site - Just love the Bulblog. Like having two springs in one year. A horrible autumn day here just longing for spring! From: John Henson Date: Sunday 2 February 2003 Comment: Excellent site! I am a newcomer to alpines; can anyone recommend a current, single volume, illustrated book? From: Ian Young Date: Friday 31 January 2003 Comment: Click on Forum in the main menue, then click on enter forum at the bottom of the introduction page and it is there under Bulbs, Bulb Log Feedback. From: Lesley Cox Date: Friday 31 January 2003 Comment: This is an excellent site and one I visit weekly now, especially to see Ian's Bulblog. High summer here, not an alpine bulb in sight! These crocuses et al are therefore very refreshing. Many thanks BUT I can't find the new part of Bulblog for viewers'comments. Any suggestions? From: Alex T Greer Date: Sunday 26 January 2003 Comment: I am really impressed by this site. I went in the check the seed list aand spent the next two hours on line! From: Gill Lee Date: Saturday 11 January 2003 Comment: Just been 'having a browse' - excellent as ever. Particularly like the Bulb Log, Brilliant. From: Bob Meaden Date: Friday 10 January 2003 Comment: Splendid site, well worth many visits. From: