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Help for Rock Gardeners

Here we have answers to all your problems. Well, less than that in truth, but perhaps some of your rock gardening dilemmas may have happened to us. Our experts are at your beck and call.

New! A directory of email addresses of rock gardeners. You gain entry by listing yourself.

Email Directory

If you have a question of general interest, or about which there may be many opinions, then the rock gardening discussion group, Alpine-L is the way to go. Join this group to ask such questions as:

Plant Nuts

  • How do you grow Castillejas or Campanulas or Calochortus?
  • Has anyone tried cuttings of Dianthus?
  • Where should I go to photograph Lewisias in the Siskiyous.

Subscribe by sending this line in the body of an email:

SUBSCRIBE ALPINE-L YOURNAME comma CITY&JURISDICTION; HARDINESS-ZONE

No subject required. Send it to Listserv@nic.surfnet.NL

If the question is a beginner's, or you are just shy, ask Barbara van Achterberg. (Please say where you garden and include "RG 101" in the subject line.) Barbara can call on many on-line rock gardeners, and will pass along tough ones to an expert. You can try to stump Barbara with questions such as:

Rock Gardening 101

  • What is a rock garden plant?
  • What is tufa?
  • What are some good penstemons?
  • Why are alpines tough to grow?
  • What is an Acantholimon?

And if you want to know almost anything related to the North American Rock Garden Society, then your best bet is the Responsible Positions Page, a Who's Who of national and chapter officers.

For a discussion of the Society's concerns with conservation and collecting to to the Conservation Policy page.

NARGS

And the question we would all like to hear most: How do I become a member? Membership gives you:

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