In week 2 of this year's Bulb Log,
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jan141421233053BULB_LOG_0215.pdfIan Young published the first chapter of his (free) online book –
“ERYTHRONIUM IN CULTIVATION”He will continue this project through this year, publishing chapters, in no particular order,when he has them ready.
The Chapters he plans are:
-Seeds - Bulbs - Flowers - Leaves - Growing in containers - Growing in the garden - Species;individual chapters on each of the following species of Erythronium :dens canis, caucasicum, sibiricum, japonicum, americanum, albidum, revolutum, oregonum, tuolumnense, grandiflorum, montanum, californicum, hendersonii, helenae, howelleii, citrinum, klamanthense, purpurascens, pluriflorum, sp nova, multiscapoideum, taylorii, elegans - Hybrids.
All that Ian writes is from his own experience and this book will be the same so he can only
write about the plants that he has grown.
Like the Bulb Log it will be fully illustrated and he will try to detail everything with clear photographs.
Once he has published all the chapters he will then combine them into a single PDF which can be downloaded.
One of the advantages of doing it this way is that Ian can continually add to and modify the chapters with new material before he combines them into the single PDF and even further he can add to or amend that in future years.
You can all also take part by offering suggestionsor making comments –all comments good or bad will be helpful
to me as Ian tries to make this work as complete and helpful as he can.
We hope you enjoy the first chapter on Seeds, please do give him feed back - ian@bulblog.co.uk
Link to all Bulb Logs :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=bulb
