August IRG #187 is now online.
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https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/250828180133IRG%20187.pdfThis issue of The International Rock Gardener e-magazine has two of the most recognisable authors in the Alpine Plant world today featuring on its pages.
The first is that renaissance man, a fellow with a truly encyclopaedic knowledge about the alpine plants of the world, the Englishman, Robert Rolfe. Robert shares with us some investigations he has made on one of the most successful show plants in the United Kingdom, Androsace villosa. A plant which is seldom as magnificent in the hills as it appears on the Show Bench but which holds an enduring affection in the minds of many growers.
For our second article, we travel once more with the indefatigable Latvian, Jānis Rukšāns, to Iran.
As he vowed in the past - only to change his mind - this time Jānis declares that this last trip is indeed his final trip to a country that he clearly finds as attractive as it is exasperating to him.

Cover image:
Allium species – image Jānis Rukšāns.