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Future meetings
Spring 2026 meeting
A date fr the Spring 2026 meeting has not yet been set.
Further details will be posted here in due course, including Directions to the meeting hall.
The provisional timetable is: The doors will open at 10.00, and the meeting will close at about 15.00. SABG and NAAS members, their guests and visitors are welcome. There will be a small admission charge. Parking is free.
Newsletters
- The most recent published newsletter is number 52 (November 2024)
- You can read or download all the SABG newsletters from our list of newsletters
News items
- New additions to our Digital library include: Pauline Perry (1990) Bulbinella -- a neglected garden plant?, Veld and Flora, December 1990 [7 November 2025]
- Graham Duncan visited the UK again in October 2025, during which his main purpose was to photograph Nerines in cultivation. Thanks to an invitation by SABG member Peter Kohn, Graham gave a talk entitled “Kirstenbosch, the most beautiful garden in Africa, and its collection of South African bulbs”, in the Dorothy Fox Education Centre in Sheffield Botanical Gardens on October 14th, attended by about 100 people. The meeting was hosted by the Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield, of which Peter is currently Acting Chair. [15 October 2025]
- The SABG is 21 this year! The original announcement about the formation of the Group appeared on 4th April 2004 in “The African Garden” web site run by David Fenwick. Unfortunately the original site may no longer exist, but thanks to the excellent work by the people at the Internet Archive (archive.org) a preserved copy of the web site can be seen at The African Garden. [20 August 2025]
- The list of bulbs and seeds in the 2025 Bulb & Seed Exchange is available: requests from SABG members to reach Jon Evans by 30th August. [16 August 2025]
- A video of Graham Duncan’s talk “Agapanthus, Lachenalia and a lifetime spent at Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden: 1979 – 2024” is available to SABG and NAAS members for viewing after the meeting. SABG members can email Richard for the link. [27 March 2025]
- The new Haemanthus book from Dee Snijman is available online at https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025_Strelitzia48.pdf [Jon Evans, 13 March 2025]
Recently changed web pages and documents
- Technical notes - [Page footer] (13:19 05/01/2026)Technical notes This page is not of interest to SABG members or others interested in southern African bulbs. It is intended for any authorised user maintaining the SABG website. Web hosting The web-site is hosted in the UK by Kualo Ltd., who say they provide “fast, secure & rock-solid hosting”, a claim backed by a “99.9% Uptime Guarantee“ and many positive reviews. They also have strong environmental credentials as mentioned above.
- About the SABG web site (13:17 05/01/2026)About the SABG web site * Recently changed web pages and documents * Technical notes * 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.
- Help - [Help] (12:46 05/01/2026)Help * How to grow South African bulbs * How to use the SABG web site * Recently changed web pages and documents * Technical notes
- Members - [Members] (20:32 25/11/2025)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
- - ↷ Page moved from members:start to member:start (19:20 25/11/2025)
- Links to other web sites - [Societies, associations and other organisations] (19:09 25/11/2025)Links to other web sites This list of external web sites is provided in case they are of interest to members and the SABG takes no responsibility for their accuracy. Inclusion does not imply endorsement or recommendation by the SABG. The SABG does not own them and cannot control or check their contents. Please let us know if you have any comments about their usefulness or suggestions for additional sites to include in this list.
- News items (22:22 07/11/2025)News items * New additions to our Digital library include: Pauline Perry (1990) [Bulbinella -- a neglected garden plant?], Veld and Flora, December 1990 [7 November 2025] * Graham Duncan visited the UK again in October 2025, during which his main purpose was to photograph Nerines in cultivation. Thanks to an invitation by
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 107, Issue 20 by Elaine J via pbs (17:25 28/01/2026)
- Bulb or orchid? by Laura Grant via pbs (03:55 28/01/2026)
- Bulb or orchid? by James Shao via pbs (03:34 28/01/2026)
- Bulb or orchid? by Elaine J via pbs (02:51 28/01/2026)
- Bulb or orchid? by Robert Parks via pbs (15:51 26/01/2026)
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