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Links to related web sites

This list is provided for the information of members and we do not take any responsibility for its usefulness or accuracy. Inclusion does not imply endorsement or recommendation by the SABG.

Societies, associations and other organisations

• Amaryllidaceae.org (in French) [English translation by Google]

• A-Z Photographic Database of Southern African Bulbous Plants

  (managed by IBSA)

• IBSA

  Indigenous Bulb Association of South Africa, Inheemse Bolplant Vereniging van Suid-Afrika

• International Bulb Society

• Keith's Plant Books

  Supplier of a wide range of plant books. Click on "African Plants" or "Bulbs etc." on the left

• Nerine & Amaryllid Society (NAAS)
• Pacific Bulb Society (PBS)

• Société Française des Iris et plantes Bulbeuses

  SFIB, in French, but has a button allowing you to select your preferred language as provided by Google Translate) [English translation by Google]

• Southern African Bulb Group (SABG)

  The group which provides these web pages, included here for completeness (and in case someone copies this list!)

Enthusiast's web sites

• BulbWeb

  Audrey Cain's web site containing useful information on bulbs grown over the years; not currently available, but we hope to restore it soon.

• Exbury Collection of Nerines & Lachenalias

  Nicholas de Rothschild and Theo Herselman have built up an extensive collection of these plants, which are exhibited periodically at Exbury Gardens near Beaulieu, Hampshire, and some of which can be ordered via the web site. Includes cultivation hints and many photos of named varieties of Nerine sarniensis and species and forms of Lachenalia.

• Massonia.com

  Bert Zaalberg's collection (in Leiden, the Netherlands) and web gallery with very nice photos of S.A. bulbs (not just Massonias), various succulents (especially mesembryanthemums) and other plants, with concise cultivation tips for Massonia. See the Contacts page to email for a list of current stock for sale.

• Terry Smale's web site

  Includes sections on cultivation and sales of South African bulbs

• The African Garden

  Culture, photography, identification, research, horticultural promotion and conservation of Southern African Bulbs and their hybrids, by David Fenwick

Bulb suppliers in the UK

• Anglia Bulb Company

• Cotswold Garden Flowers

  Bob Brown's nursery includes many South African bulbs.

• Desirable Plants

  Sarah & Julian Sutton run the Desirable Plants nursery in Totnes and have a special web site for their South African bulbs.

• Himalayan Gardens [himalayangardens.com]

  Although, as the name suggests, they do not specialise in South African bulbs, there is a good number of interesting species listed and illustrated on their web-site, including many Amaryllidaceae.
  Himalayan Gardens Ltd., Inshewan Estate, Inshewan by Forfar, Angus, Scotland DD8 3TU, UK, tel: +44 (0)1414 163 536, email: bulbs@himalayangardens.com

• Rare Plants [rareplants.co.uk]

  Rare Plants is a small company based in Wrexham, in North Wales, founded in 1972 by Paul Christian, who is still the director, and specialising in bulbous and similar plants, including terrestrial orchids. In 1985 the nursery moved to a lower altitude on the alluvial plain to the north of Wrexham, a site more suited to bulb cultivation.
  Bulbs may be bought from their web site, or printed lists are available from RarePlants, P.O. Box 468, WREXHAM LL13 9XR, UK, tel: +44 (0)1978 366 399

• R.V. Roger Ltd. [www.rvroger.co.uk]

  An extensive range of over 16,000 plants, bulbs and seeds, including many South African bulbs formerly the stock of The Bulb Nursery run by Rupert Bowlby, a late member of the SABG.
  RV Roger Ltd., The Nurseries, Malton Road (A169), Pickering, North Yorkshire YO18 7JW, UK tel: +44 (0)1751 472226 email: sales@rvroger.co.uk

• Tale Valley Nursery [www.talevalleynursery.co.uk]

  A small specialist nursery with alpines, bulbs, herbaceous woodland plants and ferns, including a selection of winter and summer growing South African bulbs, with the National Collection of Rhodohypoxis and x Rhodoxis.
  Chris and Lorraine Birchall, Tale Valley Nursery, Barratt's Cottage, Clyst Hydon, Cullompton, Devon EX15 2NQ, UK, tel: +44 (0)1884 277614, email: contactus@talevalleynursery.co.uk

Bulb suppliers outside the UK

• Cape Seed & Bulb

  Jim Holmes in Stellenbosch near Cape Town, who has been growing and supplying South African bulbs for more than 30 years, world wide

• Shire Bulbs [www.shirebulbs.co.za]

  Bulbs, mostly indigenous to the Eastern Cape: Rob Scott, Shire Bulbs, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 4930, South Africa, tel: +27 (0)43 683 2452

• Telos Rare Bulbs

  Primarily a California nursery, but their web-site has names and pictures of many species

Books and journals

• Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

  If you were interested in the mountain flora of Ethiopia after Jonathan Hutchinson's talk at the Spring 2016 meeting, have a look at a 358-page book which is available on-line as a 6.5-megabyte PDF file which you can download. Various bulbs, especially Scadoxus, are mentioned in the introduction to the mountain areas on page 22 onwards. Species of various bulbous families are described later in the book.