Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Maggi Young on June 20, 2013, 07:46:19 PM
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David Victor tells me that he, along with a group of enthusiasts from the Geraniaceae Group, have put together a specialist discussion forum for the family. This is currently being launched and there is an open invitation for any one to join who is interested in that family or has questions about particular plants.
The formal starting date for the Forum is 1st July but interested persons can sign up now by going to:
www.geraniaceae-group-forum.org (http://www.geraniaceae-group-forum.org)
Basic details are as follows : The aims of The Geraniaceae Group are to promote knowledge of the species of Geraniaceae, to unite people who are interested in these plants all over the world, to encourage interest in its growing and exchange of information between our members.
To participate in this Forum you need to be a member of the Geraniaceae Group
You may apply for membership and send your payment according the following terms
Subscription rates for 2013
UK £ 10.00
EUROPE £ 12.00 (or Euro 20.00, cash */ETP), including Air mail Postage
OTHER OVERSEAS £ 15.00 (or US $ 25.00, cash /ETP), including Air mail Postage
Membership runs for 12 months and benefits include the following:
· Four printed newsletters each year
· Participation in this online forum and access to the Group website
· Access to the annual seed exchange
· Opportunities to buy specialist Books
· Use of the Slide Library
Please visit their Website http://www.geraniaceae-group.org/index.html#The%20Group%20Newsletter (http://www.geraniaceae-group.org/index.html#The%20Group%20Newsletter) to get more information on the following topics:
The Specialist Booklist
Geraniaceae Photo Gallery
Meeting and Events
Links to related societies and websites
The annual Seed Exchange
International Cultivar Registrar for Geranium and Erodium
The Forum of the Geraniaceae Group provides communication between members in real time. You can share your experience and photos about species growing, hybridizing and your travels to natural habitat, nurseries, botanical gardens. You can also create own topic about your Geraniaceae collection.
Only Group members can participate at the Forum. Internet users (not members) are able to see two sections – Membership and Group News.
To become a Forum’s participant you should press ‘Create Account’ button at the right upper corner of the page and fill in registration form. You will receive confirmation of your registration from administrator via email.
Please do not hesitate to send your questions: forum@geraniaceae-group-forum.org
Best of luck to the Geraniaceae Group with this project.
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The forum mentioned above seems to now be under this link :
https://www.geraniaceae-group.org/community/ (https://www.geraniaceae-group.org/community/) ( that forum is for members only)
However, the Geraniaceae Group site remains https://www.geraniaceae-group.org/ (https://www.geraniaceae-group.org/)
These links may also be of interest
http://www.geraniaceae-group.org/old/a_french_connection.html (http://www.geraniaceae-group.org/old/a_french_connection.html)
http://www.geraniaceae-group.org/old/mount_ossa.html (http://www.geraniaceae-group.org/old/mount_ossa.html) for a couple of articles by Allan Robinson, Sutton Bridge , The Fens, England.
http://www.growsonyou.com/bowl_you/blog/25361-bloomin-erodiums (http://www.growsonyou.com/bowl_you/blog/25361-bloomin-erodiums) for John Beaulieu's blog which contains some notes of Erodium 'Bishop's Form, which is now correctly Erodium 'William Bishop'
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Sadly, two of the links to information at the Geraniaceae site no longer work. They have deleted many articles and changed a lot of information to 'members only' status. I can see the point of creating a reason to join the group, but also dissapointed that so much is no longer available to the public. I always figure that sharing information is a goal of specialist groups. I for one, can no longer afford to join all the groups that I would like to.
Thank you for putting up the link to my erodium (and other blogs) blog, which still works. It is mainly a compilation of a lot of info gleaned about erodiums over the last few years, plus lots of photos.
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Welcome to the Forum, John - sad to hear there are links which have lost their use - as you probably know from the SRGC site, we are all about sharing our knowledge and information with as wide a range of people as possible, not only full SRGC members, so the vast majority of our content is free for all to read and save as they wish.
I agree, it is getting harder than ever to afford membership fees for all the groups one might like to support.
The SRGC has a natty "donate" button where we hope those who have found the likes of the free access we provide to the International Rock Gardener with, for instance, so many open access species descriptions in its pages, to be useful that anyone can use the button to make a donation of any size to our "work."
I use the term "work" loosely, of course, since we are all volunteers!
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It was really good to see that the International Rock Gardener re-published one of the deleated (from the Geraniaceae site) articles in the Dec. 2019 issue.
Myself, I am mainly into the hardy geraniums and the erodiums. Erodiums are a challenge to come by here in central Ontario. I do not see a lot of forum entries here, regarding either the geraniums or erodiums. Maybe I need to start a thread? I mainly grow mine in rockery conditions... They all seem to take to that quite well.
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John, I believe a thread on the hardy geraniums and erodium would be popular - you are most welcome to start one!
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Flipping back through the forum, I realize that I put up a photo of erodiums, but did not identify them (2 posts back). These are Erodium cheilanthifolium (album). This is a very variable species, and this is one of the most common forms available... Identical to what is sold as 'Stephanie'. It is a naturally occurring form that is found mostly in the very southern mountains of Andalusia, Spain. The bottom petals are whiter (less veining than the forms a little further north in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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Here's one from the north of Spain, Picos de Europa, a form of E. (petraeum ssp.) glandulosum which is also variable.