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Autumn 2024 meeting
Our next meeting will be on Sunday 20th October 2024.
The speaker for this meeting is Alex Summers, who was until recently the curator of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, now working in a National Trust garden. He will give a talk (title to be agreed). The NBGW has a large section devoted to plants from regions with a Mediterranean climate, including a collection of South African bulbs.
Directions to the meeting hall. The doors will open at 10.00, and the meeting will close at about 14.30. SABG members, their guests and visitors are welcome. Admission is £3.00 and parking is free.
Newsletters
- The most recent published newsletter is number 48 (March 2023)
- You can read or download all the SABG newsletters from our list of newsletters
News items
- An SABG member has drawn my attention to a study of the South African species of Ledebouria, which I have added to our Digital library [22 November 2023]
- The November 2023 Ephemeral Seed and Bulb Exchange has now finished. The material available was listed here here. [22 November 2023]
- More options to order seeds and bulbs from South African and other suppliers are described in Bulletin 48/3 emailed to SABG members. [23 June 2023]
- An SABG member is proposing to make a joint seed order to Silverhill Seeds, as described in Bulletin 48/2 emailed to SABG members today. If you are an SABG member, didn’t receive this bulletin and are interested in joining in, please let me know and I’ll put you in touch. [10 April 2023]
Recently changed web pages and documents
- Autumn 2024 meeting (13:13 01/04/2024)Autumn 2024 meeting Our next meeting will be on Sunday 20th October 2024. The speaker for this meeting is Alex Summers, who was until recently the curator of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, now working in a National Trust garden. He will give a talk (title to be agreed). The NBGW has a large section devoted to plants from regions with a Mediterranean climate, including a collection of South African bulbs.
- Spring 2024 meeting (13:10 01/04/2024)Spring 2024 meeting Our Spring 2024 meeting was on Sunday 24th March 2024. The speaker for this meeting was Timothy Walker. He is a very well known speaker, his lectures renowned for being both informative but also highly entertaining. He was formerly the Director of Oxford Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum, which under his leadership won four gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. Currently he is a lecturer in Plant Sciences at Oxford University.
- Past, present and future meetings - [Table] (13:03 01/04/2024)Past, present and future meetings The next meeting is the Autumn 2024 meeting. Meeting dates The Southern African Bulb group has held or will hold meetings on the following dates: Date Location
- Other meetings - [Other meetings] (13:02 01/04/2024)Other meetings * Saturday in October 2024: Nerine visit day * both organised by the Nerine and Amaryllid Society at the Five Arrows Gallery, Exbury Gardens, Exbury, Southampton SO45 1AX, by kind invitation of Nicholas de Rothschild and Theo Herselman. These events are for NAAS members, but SABG members are also invited; see the
- SABG (11:06 01/04/2024)SABG Noticeboard * The SABG Autumn meeting will be on Sunday 20th October 2024 at Badger’s Farm Community Centre (a change to the originally published provisional date). More details below. * [Newsletter no. 50] (March 2024) is available. * Bulletin no. 50/1 (15 March 2024) has been emailed.
- Payments - [SABG Bulb & Seed Exchange: paying a donation] (14:10 15/03/2024)Payments Notes on making payments to the SABG Joining the SABG If you are not a member, and you have browsed around our web-site to see what we do, you might look at How to join the SABG. SABG Bulb & Seed Exchange: paying a donation Members with a UK bank account can post a cheque (payable to
- Members - old revision restored (13:23 09/03/2024) (13:26 09/03/2024)If you are not a member, and you have looked around our web-site to see what we do, you might look at How to join the SABG. You can find contact details (email addresses) for certain members of the SABG committee on the Contacts page. Members Committee members can access information about SABG members in the
Bulb and Seed Exchanges
- The 2022 autumn ephemeral seed exchange list is available, thanks to its coordinator, Jon Evans. Details have been emailed to members, and can also be read on our 2022 Bulb & Seed Exchange page. The deadline for requests from members for seeds and bulbs from the Exchange is 18th November 2022.
- The main seed and bulb exchange for 2022 has now finished.
News from other sources
Pacific Bulb Society RSS news feed
The PBS List is an email discussion of bulbs, sponsored by the Pacific Bulb Society, for people around the world. Although bulbs (defined more broadly to include all geophytes) are the focus, we recognize that people who grow them probably grow other things too and will be talking about them from time to time. Everyone is welcome to take part, simply click on Subscribe [in the link on the right just below]. PBS List https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php
These are the most recent posts in the PBS List. If you click on one, you will be able to see all the others.
- EX08b EU Exchange open for orders by Garak via pbs (19:32 25/04/2024)
- pbs Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14 by Jana Mariposa via pbs (14:18 23/04/2024)
- Pitkin Marsh lily by David Pilling via pbs (20:47 22/04/2024)
- Should I send Moraea speciosa seed to SX? by Shoal Creek Succulents via pbs (13:13 22/04/2024)
- Moraea speciosa by Michael Mace via pbs (05:49 22/04/2024)
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