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-  * New additions to our digital library include: Pauline Perry (1990) **{{library:bulbinella.pdf|Bulbinella -- a neglected garden plant?}}**, //Veld and Flora//, December 1990 <wrap lo>//[7 November 2025]//</wrap>+  * New additions to our [[library:]] include: Pauline Perry (1990) **{{library:bulbinella.pdf|Bulbinella -- a neglected garden plant?}}**, //Veld and Flora//, December 1990 <wrap lo>//[7 November 2025]//</wrap>
   * Graham Duncan visited the UK again in October 2025, during which his main purpose was to photograph Nerines in cultivation.  Thanks to an invitation by SABG member Peter Kohn, Graham gave a talk entitled "//Kirstenbosch, the most beautiful garden in Africa, and its collection of South African bulbs//", in the Dorothy Fox Education Centre in Sheffield Botanical Gardens on October 14th, attended by about 100 people.  The meeting was hosted by the Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield, of which Peter is currently Acting Chair. <wrap lo>//[15 October 2025]//</wrap>   * Graham Duncan visited the UK again in October 2025, during which his main purpose was to photograph Nerines in cultivation.  Thanks to an invitation by SABG member Peter Kohn, Graham gave a talk entitled "//Kirstenbosch, the most beautiful garden in Africa, and its collection of South African bulbs//", in the Dorothy Fox Education Centre in Sheffield Botanical Gardens on October 14th, attended by about 100 people.  The meeting was hosted by the Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield, of which Peter is currently Acting Chair. <wrap lo>//[15 October 2025]//</wrap>
   * **The SABG is 21 this year!**  The original announcement about the formation of the Group appeared on 4th April 2004 in "The African Garden" web site run by David Fenwick. Unfortunately the original site may no longer exist, but thanks to the excellent work by the people at the [[https://web.archive.org|Internet Archive (archive.org)]] a preserved copy of the web site can be seen at [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170104064249/http://www.theafricangarden.com/|The African Garden]].  <wrap lo>//[20 August 2025]//</wrap>   * **The SABG is 21 this year!**  The original announcement about the formation of the Group appeared on 4th April 2004 in "The African Garden" web site run by David Fenwick. Unfortunately the original site may no longer exist, but thanks to the excellent work by the people at the [[https://web.archive.org|Internet Archive (archive.org)]] a preserved copy of the web site can be seen at [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170104064249/http://www.theafricangarden.com/|The African Garden]].  <wrap lo>//[20 August 2025]//</wrap>

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