Ready for an Alpine Adventure...

Have you visited the new Limestone Rock Garden yet? Discover an array of colourful, tiny alpine beauties, that have been perfectly nestled into dramatic slabs of limestone. #RHSHarlowCarr #Alpines #RockGarden

In IRG 185 - download here: srgc.net/documents/irg/… Marloes Adamse: photo essay in Kyrgyzstan with Geir Moen Alan Ayton intro to some lesserknown Australasian plants. Cover image: Trollius lilacinus, photo Marloes Adamse.

Congratulations to National Collection Holder - Linda Eggins - on receiving the Brickell Award 2025 (for excellence in cultivated plant conservation). #Aucuba #WinterbourneGardens #BrickellAward #NationalPlantCollection #plantconservation

All SRGC members may access recent issues of The Rock Garden via the website srgc.net, by logging in there with their membership details. The latest journal is now online there:Issue 155. The issue is being posted out to "paper members" soon.

Here are is the contents page for TRG !55

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Here's what's coming up....

This is your last week to apply for the job of GIS officer! The closing date for applications is July 20. Learn more and apply now buff.ly/Lzs7FTl #GISOfficer #JobAnnouncement #Vacancy #HabitatMaps #SpeciesThreatAbatementandRestoration

The garden gets increasingly wild in the summer months where many of the flowers have self seeded. So many bees & even a few butterflies are around. Click the link to read the #BulbLog srgc.net/documents/bulb…

Join our heather day - Thur 18 Sep 2025 - Royal George Hotel, Perth. Persephone plant recording - 17 Sep. Hear from #nationalplantcollection s at Perth, Holehird Gardens & Branklyn Gardens Book here: bit.ly/HeathersPlantH… members free Join us bit.ly/JoinPlantHerit…

Thrilled to share our article in Journal for Nature Conservation on Potential impacts of climate change on the geographic distribution of Dionysia diapensiifolia Boiss., a rare and endemic species in Iran: Implications for conservation. Full text : doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.…

In a month wwith storms galeforce winds & torrential rain, now comes a heat wave: no wonder we are always speaking about the weather. In this #BulbLog #IanYoung  looks at the value of survivors & volunteers especially in the summer garden & troughs. srgc.net/documents/bulb…

Topping out on Goatfell. Started from Corrie, heading up Coire Lan, with a scramble to the summit of Goatfell. Headed along Stacach finding Alpine Alchemilla and poss Rhodiola rosea? Before pulling up to the summit of Goatfell for what must be some of the best views in Scotland.

Border scene...

IRG 187 August 2025 - Articles from Robert Rolfe on one of the most successful show plants in the UK - - & from Jānis Rukšāns on his last & final, visit to Iran. Cover image: Allium species – image Jānis Rukšāns. Download here to read free: srgc.net/documents/irg/…

Great idea, especially with first Otto Fauser Medal in Australia awarded to a large Cyclamen rohlfsianum exhibited by AGSVicGroup membership Secretary & Journal Editor, Helen Batty. Congrats, Helen!!