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The Scottish Rock Garden Club
For people who love plants
Why not join our friendly world wide community of international members?
Receive the twice yearly journal "The Rock Garden"
Access to our annual Seed Exchange of over 5000 listings
Local Groups in Scotland and the North of England
Support our Shows, Conferences, Student Grants and open access Website
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The Scottish Rock Garden Club
Scottish Rock Garden Club Established 1933
The Club for people who love plants.
- Plant enthusiasts join together from around the world to share and enjoy a love of plants.
- Amateur or professional, beginner or expert.
- Small garden, large garden, bog garden, woodland garden, raised beds, troughs.
- Dwarf herbaceous, bulbs corms and tubers,trees shrubs,cacti succulents, orchids.
- Displays, Shows, Plant sales and exchanges.
- Meetings, Conferences with world class talks.
- Grants and Award schemes.
- Website and forum.
- Journals and Seed exchange.
You can donate to the SRGC and help us provide even more resources by clicking this button
You don't need to have a Paypal account!
The SRGC Forum
The SRGC Forum provides a place
- for meeting online to bring together the international membership of the Club, for plant related and social interaction, making it a world-wide Local Group!
- to learn more about the plants that interest us
- to share photos and discussion on plants of all types of interest to members, about cultivation, propagation, taxonomy; the list goes on!
- to follow threads on individual genera, specialist groups, gardens, field trips, plant holidays and even recipes!
The Forum provides all the facilities that a local meeting would for members and , in addition, can be read by anyone and registration is also open, ensuring that the SRGC shares this asset as widely as possible.
In the many hundreds of thousands of posts in the Forum, there are countless thousands of photographs of plants, in the wild and in cultivation and reports on natural habitats, from hundreds of members.
This means that the Forum contains a type of informal "Wiki", and provides one of the largest resources of plant information available. This treasure trove is, of course, searchable.
The SRGC Forum: Read it, join it, contribute, learn, enjoy!
Click here to visit the SRGC Forum
The Archibald Archive:
The collected documents of Jim Archibald, one of the foremost independent seed collectors of our time.
Click here to view.
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Happy Christmas and New Year to all our members and friends near and far,
Best wishes, Julia Corden
President The Scottish Rock Garden Club
N. B. Over the festive season, contact can be made with the SRGC as normal,
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1st June 2018
Great news that the dedicated little team of SRGC Volunteers has won Premier Gold from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society at the 2018 Gardening Scotland Show at Ingliston, near Edinburgh.
The Club is so proud of the efforts of Rob, Stan, Peggy, Ian, Richard and Sandy and is grateful to all for their tireless efforts and those others involved lending plants, such as Watt Russell. The Show is open 1st -3rd June and friendly SRGC folks will be on hand throughout to answer questions on the plants and the SRGC from the public. The display features plants suitable for woodland, sunny scree and other positions in the garden as well as a feature of planted troughs, which showcases plants and gives ideas about how they might be grown in combination with eachother in even a tiny space. Well done Team SRGC - you are the best!
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Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Awards to SRGC members 2018
At the SRGC Early Bulb Day former Caley president Pam Whittle announced, in advance of the RCHS AGM, that the following awards would be given to two stalwart SRGC members at the Caley (RCHS) AGM in Edinburgh on March 6th 2018.
The Dr Andrew Duncan Medal: (Introduced in 2003 for distinguished service to horticulture by an educationalist, advisor or administrator.) was given to Dr. Stan da Prato.
The Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Medal in Horticulture (Introduced in 1990 to mark the 90th birthday of the Society’s Patron, the Queen Mother. The medal is awarded for outstanding service by a non-professional) is given to Sandy Leven.
Warm congratulations to these two stars of SRGC and Scottish Horticulture!
This photo shows the full line-up of Caley Awardees - well done everyone!
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Site information:
Most of this site and the Forum is viewable without registration. Registration for the forum is only needed to allow you to actually post there.
N. B. For Forum registration; please follow the links on any Forum page e.g. HERE
Registration from the general site is only for online subscription access - that is to say, to access a subscription to receive journals online only.Membership: You may join or renew to subscribe for postal delivery of journals etc. here. No website registration is needed for this.
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The SRGC operates various GRANT schemes, including the Diana Aitchison Fund which offers grant aid for horticultural students – read more HERE
The SRGC also grants "Exploration Awards" - deadlines for 2017 application are 28th February and 15th November - see HERE
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Please be aware that annual SRGC subscriptions for "postal" members are due for renewal on 1st October.
You can renew - or join - and read about the benefits of SRGC membership, for "postal" membership - where you receive the Journal and Secretary's Pages etc by post - and other memberships, via this page.
Please note that there is a special category for postal Junior - for those below the age of 18 in the relevant subscription year: £3 per annum in the UK, £7 per annum overseas. (Please give date of birth)
For Students the SRGC offers a free electronic subscription. Send your application toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Please give your place of study, the date of end of course of study.)
You can read about the new "online electronic" subscription - where you only access Journals etc online - no journals are posted to you : here.
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Some Of Our Plants
Quick Links
The SRGC web site and forum is a large and valuable resource. Here are a few quick links to features you may find interesting!
Seedexchange: We list seeds of over 5000 species annually.
Journal: One of the world's best publications for rock gardeners.
Shows: Every year we hold shows in Scotland and in northern England.
Events: What's happening?
Seeking Plant information?
In addition to the articles on this website, which includes over a hundred of our Journals, the SRGC has a huge resource of thousands of plant photos and information in the pages of the interactive Forum. The Forum is fully searchable and you may well find there all you need to know about a particular plant.
To search the Forum click here
Support The SRGC
We are constantly looking for ways to be even more open, more inclusive and to provide ever expanding resources for ordinary plant lovers.
If you appreciate our philosophy you can support us by joining the SRGC or by making a donation through Paypal using the button below.
You don't even have to have a Paypal account to donate via Paypal!
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Scottish Rock Garden Club is a Charity registered with Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR): SC000942