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Maggi Young:
This month Jānis Rukšāns writes about a new Corydalis species found during an expedition to Uzbekistan. Jānis is a tireless private researcher into plants, particularly bulbs, that he studies around the world and has worked to make many of these available to horticulture through his efforts.
Gerrit and Ibeltje Eijkelenboom complete their review of the orchids they have found on their travels in France. They include, of course, some of the plants that are growing alongside the orchids. Many thanks to these kind contributors.
Click this link to download the free issue of IRG :
https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/250227183840IRG%20181.pdf
Cover image: Habitat of Corydalis pskemensis, photo by Jānis Rukšāns.
Maggi Young:
IRG 182 - March 2025
Alan Ayton from Australian contributes a photo essay on Pimelea alpina, a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae, endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. Alan has recently suffered a period of ill health, and we wish him well in his recovery.
Jānis Rukšāns and Dimitri Zubov combine their efforts once more to discuss the Series Speciosi of Crocus, as defined in the 1982 monograph by Brian Mathew – and describe three new species from their expeditions over the years.
Jānis and Dimitri have made many expeditions together to research plants in the wild. They have been very generous in sharing their findings with the International Rock Gardener, over some years, for which we are most grateful.
click the link to download the IRG 182 : https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/250327202905IRG%20182.pdf
cover image : Crocus zuvandicus in its habitat. Photo S. Banketov.
Maggi Young:
IRG 183 is online now: Alan Ayton joins us again with an article on Psychrophila introloba, another Australian plant which he calls the “Queen of the Victorian Alps” – we hear little of these plants so we hope you will enjoy these notes.
Konstantin Cherezov who lives in Kirov, northwest of Moscow, is involved with the Russian Rhododendron Society website, and with uncommercial mountain hikes and expeditions in Russia. A digital creator, and nature enthusiast and mountaineer, Konstantin wrote about “Cypripediums of the Far East” in issue 154 of the print Journal of the Scottish Rock Garden Club – The Rock Garden. For the IRG he writes about a Botanical introduction to Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal.
This issue of IRG ends with some book suggestions.
https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/250424184642IRG%20183.pdf
Cover: Scabiosa comosa – photo Konstantin Cherezov.
Maggi Young:
IRG 184 for May 2025 online now! Bulbs rule! New e-magazine contains new articles by Janis Rukšāns (Latvia) and Dimitri Zubov (Ukraine) and their co-authors on Crocus and Galanthus.
Download the issue here:
https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/250529174338IRG%20184.pdf
Cover image: Galanthus golestanicus photo Farshad Kazemi.
Maggi Young:
IRG 185 for June is online now.
IRG Link -download it here - https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/250626183157IRG%20185.pdf
Marloes Adamse works in the Rock Garden at Utrecht University Botanical Gardens and has been fortunate to make several trips to areas of interest to such horticulturalists around the
world. Recently she joined a small group, led by Geir Moen, to Kyrgyzstan. She shares a photo essay with us of some of the plants she saw there.
The group included folk from Norway, Czechia, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Next for June 2025, Alan Ayton gives an introduction to some Australasian plants we might not
know well. Alan also posts interesting videos on You Tube of his favourite " Adventures in the wild and in the garden" which are recommended.
Cover image: Trollius lilacinus, photo Marloes Adamse.
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