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General Subjects => The International Rock Gardener - Feedback Forum => Topic started by: Maggi Young on January 30, 2014, 08:30:15 PM
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IRG Issue 49 January 2014 - a single genus issue, from Wim Boens on Eranthis - lots of more photos of Eranthis and many compliments to Wim here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11258.msg292607#msg292607 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11258.msg292607#msg292607)
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IRG Issue 49 January 2014 - a single genus issue, from Wim Boens on Eranthis - lots of more photos of Eranthis and many compliments to Wim here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11258.msg292607#msg292607 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11258.msg292607#msg292607)
Congratulations Wim ! A masterpiece .... ! 8)
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Wow, I am speechless!
And that does not happy often. I once got my jaw dislocated. It did not keep me quiet. This summer I totally lost my voice. It did not stop me from "talking".
But now, what to say? The January issue is absolutely stunning! I have many times thought that I will ask my library to make copies of all IRGs that has been published this far. They have a very nice full color printer. I think now it is really time to do it. First thing Monday morning, I promise. It will keep them busy for a while and also give them good statistics, that the villagers are in need of the library and the printer.
I am not very interested in Eranthis; I mostly see them as a weed. But who can resist them after this?
In Swedish they are called "winter eluder".
Thank you everybody who contributed to this issue!
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A fascinating article on a group of plants I knew little about. Thanks to Wim and the IRG team. A lovely issue.
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Another superb issue. Congratulations and thanks to Wim and the team.
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Thanks for the compliments, guys :)
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Wim, a comprehensive and interesting article about the genus Eranthis - many thanks and a great compliment.
I have pointed out in the German forum "garten-pur '.
http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php?board=24;action=display;threadid=4173;start=900 (http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php?board=24;action=display;threadid=4173;start=900) #910 ff
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Tremendous article Wim! Just when you start getting to grips with snowdrops, there is another winter flower to tax your collecting instinct. I think the SRGC should consider selecting material from the IRG and publishing it in book form at some stage, and this would make a very fine article to include.
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Wim, a comprehensive and interesting article about the genus Eranthis - many thanks and a great compliment.
I have pointed out in the German forum "garten-pur '.
http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php?board=24;action=display;threadid=4173;start=900 (http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php?board=24;action=display;threadid=4173;start=900) #910 ff
Vielen Dank für Ihre Werbung, Ebbie :-*
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Vielen Dank für Ihre Werbung, Ebbie :-*
Aber gerne doch, liebe Maggi. ;)
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That was a fantastic article Wim. Your knowledge of these delightful little plants is a real eye-opener to me. Apart from E. hyemalis which I grow, and some notes on the Forum about other species, my own experience is nothing at all, so your notes and pictures showed me a whole new world. With so many newish cultivars and forms, I can imagine that winter aconite mania may even in time surpass the galanthus mania from which so many Forumists suffer! ;D
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Thanks guys, you're really making me blush. Don't forget to thank Maggi for her fantastic lay-out capabilities and all the people who allowed me the use of their pictures and knowledge :)
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OK, here is my report. My promise is completed. I now have a nice magazine of each issue of IRG. From now on I will have the new issue printed as soon as it is released.
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Once again, thank you Wim for your article that made me finally have them all printed. ( And of course thank you Britt Svensson at our fantastic library. The cost? As importing an alpine book from UK. Absolutely worth it!)
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That has worked out well, Susann - I know some have printed out all of the Bulb Logs too - more than ten years' worth! :o
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Susann - what a great idea and after my comments above I shall have to do the same. It will be particularly exciting because I haven't looked back through the earlier IRG's before I joined the SRGC. Now I await your observations on pulsatillas!
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Tim, I hope you have a lot of patience then! The goal is to publish in 2018...But I am happy having inspired you to print IRG. It deserves it.
All respect to Ian and the Bulb log, of course Maggi. But right now I think I chose to go to Scotland. There is no time ( nor money) for both of it. But a very good idea, I think. I have a friend ( who carefully read every Bulb log since many years) who knows how to "bind books" ( English or Swenglish?) Wouldn´t it bee nice to have the log in hard covers?
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It was a pleasure to see Graham Rice's comments on the IRG ( see here (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11565.0)for details ) and on Wim's Eranthis article :
"I was especially struck by the issue from January this year which is entirely given over to a review of Eranthis – the best known of which is the winter aconite, Eranthis hyemalis, an invaluable early bulb. What a revelation to see so many lovely forms! You may be surprised to see that some are white."
Now that respected plantman, Henrik Zetterlund of Gothenburg has mentioned Wim's article favourably in his "Garden Blog- all year round in the botanical garden" (http://henrikzetterlund.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/vintergackarnas-vintergack/) (Zetterlunds trädgårdsblogg – året runt i Göteborgs botaniska)
Henrik shows some fine Eranthis pictures and finishes by commenting:
" I recommend the link (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jan291391022895IRG49.pdf) to an exhaustive article by Wim Boens in "The International Rock Gardener". Here is everything there is to know about winter aconite. "