• More information about our meetings, the location and directions are shown on our About our meetings.
• More information about the Group
• This is a new version of the SABG web site, which is intended to contain all the information from the old version (which will remain available for a while, but will not be updated). Please email me with any problems or suggestions.
• We have a Google Calendar, so you can add our events to your phone or other device.
• A list of our Past, present and future meetings
• Links to other web sites including suppliers of bulbs and seeds
• We have started a Digital library

• The latest newsletter is number 39 (April 2019). You can read or download all the SABG newsletters from our list of Newsletters.

The SABG is based in the UK and is for anyone interested in growing the beautiful and diverse bulbous plants of South Africa and neighbouring countries. You do not need to be an expert (I’m not!) or live in the UK, but our meetings have all been in England so far.

The objective of the Southern African Bulb Group is to further the understanding 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, which are mostly ‘monocots’ (plants with strap-like leaves and flower parts in threes or sixes) but also including ‘dicots’ (with broad leaves and frequently five-petalled flowers) such as Oxalis.

Our activities include two meetings per year with talks and plant sales (recently these have been in Winchester in southern England), an annual bulb and seed exchange, and a newsletter with three or four issues per year.

Many of these plants come from the former Cape Province of South Africa, 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 from the winter rainfall areas of South Africa. Some are summer growers and a few of these will grow outside in southern or sheltered parts of the UK, such as Agapanthus, some Nerines and Tulbaghias, etc. Others, like Lachenalia, are real jewels to brighten up your conservatory when not much else is in flower.

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• To join the group, or to enquire about joining, email Rodney Sims rodney.sims@tiscali.co.uk.
• To enquire about the newsletter or web site, to send suggestions for additions and improvements, or to submit items for inclusion, email Richard White richard@sabg.tk.