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My view is that the archive is something that will increase the long term survivability of the PBS web material. If something is useful people will preserve it.

Looking at what we have got so far, you might think it is quite modest. In fact it has taken some effort and we have relied on others for most of it.

People can copy our material, AI can pass it off. But we can also copy material. The winner is who has the biggest server, and that is not us. We might have the best organisation of the data though.

Aside from building an edifice that will last a thousand years, just being a source of stuff drives people to your website.

Any ideas for things that are difficult to access on the web, or that you have to go to the wayback machine (internet archive) for, which could be added to the archive?

I appreciate that what I have said above is not how the internet works. People Google, today's results are different to yesterday's, no one notices.

These latest additions are valuable because they're good material that is not available anywhere else.

As a child I would have run bare foot through fields of corn, these days I worry why is it "Farmer's Weekly" but "Gardeners' World" (apostrophe position).

Hello Mary Sue,

Thank you very much for this work. I have corresponded in the past with Cameron and am growing bulbs which I received from him as seed or seedling bulbs, all of them of outstanding beauty and quality. I have no time right now to read through his articles but I looked at two of them: excellent. 
Another valuable addition to the WIKI 

Many thanks!!

Quoting a post by Mary Sue to the PBS list...

Rhoda McMaster has kindly shared with us the articles Cameron wrote between 2007 and 2009 for Farmer's Weekly about many South African bulbs so we could archive them and they would be available to download. I've spent a lot of time adding them to the wiki and linking them to the wiki pages of the genera, family, or species he was writing about. The pdf files are really good quality since they are the originals and the information is informative and interesting and the photos spectacular. Cameron hoped to educate farmers about the wonderful bulbs they might find on their properties in the hope that they would be protected and conserved. You can find these articles here:
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/FarmersWeekly

And there is a link too on the archive page.
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Archive

David has informed me that some people have already found them. We are grateful that these articles can have wider distribution.

Mary Sue

Lets start off-classic, with Phlomoides tuberosa - glorious detail, far less impressive as whole plant - I may need more of them for an effect, but they are actually quite popular with the slugs...

Third is Luzuriaga radicans from the Altroemeriaceae,as the twisted leaves hint at. Smallish plant, evergreen and so maybe not too tuberous...

On the orchid front it's Dactylorhiza time, with the pale Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. ochroleuca and a purple one I can't really put a label on since most species are hellish difficult to tell apart. On the sphagnum I seem to start to get seedlings of Dactylorhiza, guess there are worse things than a weedy orchid...

On the classical iris front we have Iris sibirica "Butter and Sugar" and Iris fulva

. Staying within Iridoideae, last one is Moraea huttonii

, which flowered 1.5 years after planting - last spring, half-grown stalks were aborted. I hope that's just a temporal effect during establishing, they are too nice to be erratic. Hardy to at least -11°C

Dear members living in the EU,
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Bye for now
Uli

Quote from: David Pilling on May 18, 2024, 05:41:56 PMRHS warning after hungry caterpillars 'taking over South East' and decimating Guildford hedges


The Royal Horticultural Society has issued a warning after invasive, hungry caterpillars are reportedly taking over parts of Surrey and the South East. South Bucks.


https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/rhs-warning-after-hungry-caterpillars-29182894

I have noticed bald patches (a few square feet) and cobwebs on a couple of field hedges locally. Not box I would have thought.?