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-  * **{{ :newsletter:sabgnews41.pdf |Newsletter no. 41}}** (March 2020) is now available. <wrap lo>//[Richard White, 20 March 2020]//</wrap>
+  * An SABG member has drawn my attention to a study of the South African species of //Ledebouria//, which I have added to our [[library:]] <wrap lo>//[22 November 2023]//</wrap>
-  * The SABG Committee has decided it is necessary to <wrap em>cancel the SABG meeting on Sunday 29th March 2020</wrap>. <wrap lo>//[Paul Cumbleton, 16 March 2020]//</wrap>
+  * The <wrap em>[[exchange:ephemeral:2023:]]</wrap> has now finished.  The material available was listed here {{exchange:ephemeral:2023:southern_african_bulb_group_exchange_2023_-_ephemeral.pdf|here}}.   <wrap lo>//[22 November 2023]//</wrap>
-  * I have moved some pictures and information about our former Chairman **[[people:billsquire:]]** to a separate page <wrap lo>//[Richard White, 1 April 2019]//</wrap>
+  * More options to order seeds and bulbs from South African and other suppliers are  described in **Bulletin 48/3** emailed to SABG members.  <wrap lo>//[23 June 2023]//</wrap>
-  * "Ephemeral" seeds (which germinate immediately) were available to members for two days only.  For the list of species available, see [[exchange:ephemeral:]] <wrap lo>//[Jon Evans, 20 November 2018]//</wrap>
+  * 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.  <wrap lo>//[10 April 2023]//</wrap>
-  * In the latest October 2018 Silverhill Seeds newsletter (http://www.silverhillseeds.co.za/newsletter.asp), Ondine Schrick (who had worked for Rod and Rachel Saunders for over twenty years and is now the owner of the business) writes "We hope Rod and Rachel are in a gentler place now – perhaps at the top of a mountain gazing down over unfolding hills and valleys, tranquil. Work done, dreams and adventures fulfilled. The world a richer place for their time spent here."  There are many other tributes in the Scottish Rock Garden Club forum (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16118.15) <wrap lo>//[Richard White, 7 November 2018]//</wrap>
-  * The cremation service for our former Chairman **[[people:billsquire:]]** was scheduled to place in Bangkok yesterday <wrap lo>//[Richard White, 7 November 2018]//</wrap>
-  * A [[:people:billsquire:display:|display of a small selection of Bill Squire's plants]] was presented by Leo Squire and Tony Bennett at the meeting of the Dorset Group of the Alpine Garden Society, of which Bill had been Chairman, on the 1st November, 2018. A small but appropriate tribute to a wonderful man. <wrap lo>//[Richard White, 2 November 2018]//</wrap>
-  * Sadly I have to report the death of [[people:billsquire:]], our long-serving former Chairman, on Friday 26th October 2018.  Not long after starting a "new life" with his partner in Thailand, he succumbed to a short but fatal illness.  He was also well known as the former Chairman of the Dorset Group of the Alpine Garden Society, and the curator of the National Collection of //Lachenalia//.  I am sure everyone will join with me in expressing our condolences to his family.  <wrap lo>//[Richard White, 29 October 2018]//</wrap>
-  * I have just added {{:links:1615-3580-1-sm.pdf|The South African Species of Dipcadi}} by A. A. Obermeyer (1964) to our [[links:]] <wrap lo>//[Richard White, 29 October 2018]//</wrap>
-  * For many years Audrey Cain maintained a large collection of photographs of bulbs, many of them South African, which could be viewed on her web-site, called "BulbWeb". This has not been available for a while, but I am pleased to be able to report that, with help from Audrey and her son Doug, I have been able to reinstate the photos (about 1,500 in about 190 genera) and some of Audrey’s comments about them. The comments are mostly about flowering dates in cultivation, and require some more work to sort them out properly. However, rather than keep them hidden until this is done, I have made [[bulbweb:|a provisional version of BulbWeb]] available on the SABG web site.  Any comments will be welcomed by Audrey and me. <wrap lo>//[Richard White, 10 October 2018]//</wrap>
-  * There is a [[https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/tbg/v16n2.pdf|special issue]] of the Pacific Bulb Society's journal "The Bulb Garden" dedicated to the lives of Rod and Rachel Saunders.  <wrap lo>//[Aiko Talens, 3 October 2018]//</wrap>
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