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Future meetings
Spring 2025 meeting
Our next meeting will be on a Sunday in March or April 2025.
Further details will be posted here in due course.
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
- The list of available bulbs and seeds for the November Seed and Bulb Exchange 2024 has been published. Deadline for requests is 16th November. [Jon Evans, 3 November 2024]
- The timetable for the November Seed and Bulb Exchange 2024 has been announced. Details have been emailed to members in Bulletin 51/2, and can also be found on our Bulb & Seed Exchange page. [Jon Evans, 10 September 2024]
- Correction to the list of bulbs and seeds for the main 2024 Exchange: Bert Zaalberg reports that the bulbs listed as Gethyllis gerardii are almost certainly Gethyllis gregoriana. He wrote that “Since gerardii is an unpublished species name, I tried to get more info through Paul Cumbleton to find out its proper name. Paul told me that he purchased them in 2006/2007 as G. gerardii from Gordon Summerfield. Location info was Nardouwsberg, Clanwilliam. After having seen pictures of flowers and leaves, I’m pretty certain this is Gethyllis gregoriana. Leaves are quite diagnostic for this species and match the description Paul gave me. I assume it was a simple typo from Gordon back then, since gregoriana was cultivated by Gordon Summerfield in those days.” (Thanks, Bert!) [21 August 2024]
- Very occasionally I change the “theme” (style) of the web site. The current theme has a choice of a light or dark background. To change from one to the other, click on “Toggle theme” at the very top on the right-hand side. For more information, see About the SABG web site [20 June 2024]
Recently changed web pages and documents
- SABG home page (20:40 18/11/2024)Noticeboard Newsletters and Bulletins * The latest newsletter is [number 52] (November 2024). You can read or download all the SABG newsletters from our list of Newsletters. * The latest Bulletin is number 51/2 (30 September 2024) and was emailed to members on 30 September 2024 (and posted to UK members who don
- Bulb & Seed Exchange - [Bulb & Seed Exchanges] (19:55 18/11/2024)Bulb & Seed Exchange The Southern African Bulb Group runs a Bulb and Seed Exchange, for SABG members only, in July -- August and “Ephemeral seed exchanges” (primarily for seeds which need to be sown immediately on receipt) in Autumn (November) each year. See the section
- Ephemeral seed exchanges (19:54 18/11/2024)Ephemeral seed exchanges In addition to the main Bulb & Seed Exchange in summer, Jon Evans also arranges exchanges for “ephemeral” seeds, which ripen in autumn and must be sown as soon as possible after they ripen, and are therefore not suitable to be saved until the main exchange the following year.
- November Seed and Bulb Exchange 2024 (19:51 18/11/2024)November Seed and Bulb Exchange 2024 The November Seed and Bulb Exchange 2024 has now closed. Once again, members have expressed interest in running an exchange for summer-growing bulbs and ephemeral (short-lived) seed. We are planning to run the exchange on the same timing as last year. This is a compromise; some of the seeds spoil by being kept too long, but others are not yet ripe. Material should be sent out mid-November, so it can be planted and started into growth in a timely fashi…
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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.
- pbs Digest, Vol 94, Issue 1 by Jana Mariposa via pbs (16:36 03/12/2024)
- Calochortus by Randall P. Linke via pbs (10:51 03/12/2024)
- Calochortus by Diane via pbs (06:02 03/12/2024)
- Calochortus by Kipp McMichael via pbs (04:14 03/12/2024)
- Calochortus by Marc Rosenblum via pbs (01:10 03/12/2024)
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