Southern African Bulb Groupwww.sabg.tkThe Southern African Bulb Group is for anyone interested in growing the beautiful and diverse bulbous plants of South Africa and neighbouring countries. |
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Next meeting: Sunday 28 March 2010The Spring meeting of the Group will be on Sunday 28th March 2010 (not 21 March as previously stated), at Badger Farm Community Centre, Winchester, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (BST)The meeting will include a talk by John Grimshaw. Click here for further details and directions to the meeting hall.
About the GroupThe objective of the group is to further the understanding and enjoyment of the cultivation of southern African bulbs, where "bulbs" is used in the broad sense to encompass bulb-, corm- and tuber- possessing southern African plants, including "dicots" such as Oxalis.Many of these plants come from the former Cape Province, now the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape Provinces, and are easy to grow in a cool greenhouse or a sunny conservatory or window sill. They usually provide colourful flowers in autumn and winter and need a dry period in summer, because they are mostly winter growers in South Africa. A few will grow outside in southern or sheltered parts of the UK, such as Agapanthus, some species and varieties of Nerine and Tulbaghia, etc. Others, like Lachenalia, are real jewels to brighten up your conservatory when not much else is in flower. The SABG was initiated by a group of enthusiasts including Stefan Rau and Terry Smale on April 4th 2004 as an informal group to provide a forum for exchange of information between members about these plants and their cultivation. The original announcement about the formation of the Group appeared in the The African Garden (this is included for historical reasons, and some of the information given there is now out of date.) Most of our members are in the United Kingdom, so all our meetings have been in England so far, in meeting halls and occasionally in members' gardens. NewslettersWe have a regular electronic newsletter, edited by Mick Reed, distributed to members by email or by post. Anyone can download, read or print copies from this list.Further information
Join nowYou do not need to be an expert or live in the UK to join. For further information about the group or to enquire about joining, please email, write or phone
Rodney Sims
Tel: +44(0)1442 822669
Comments welcomePlease email the webmaster Richard White sabg@rjwhite.tk with suggestions for additions and improvements to our SABG web site! |
Haemanthus coccineus photographed by Richard White in April 2006. These plants were growing in a noticeably gritty compost at Cape L'Agulhas, the southernmost point of the continent of Africa, within a few yards of both the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. This is therefore possibly the most southern African bulb group ...
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Please email any comments and contributions to Richard White [sabg@rjwhite.tk] This page was last modified on Saturday, 05-Dec-2009 11:49:37 GMT
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