Our twice yearly journal “The Rock Garden” is one of the world's best publications for rock gardeners, and is interesting, informative and illustrated in colour.  It contains articles on all aspects of rock gardening and propagation of alpines: construction of rock gardens; plant portraits; and plants in the wild. It is written for both experts and beginners and aims to mirror the wide ranges of interests and skills of our members. 

The 126 colour pages of The Rock Garden partner the physical and online activities of the club. The journal is a mix of plant portraits and cultivation tips, events, recollections, plant-hunting expeditions, hernia-inducing movements of rock, perfect show plants, prizes, and book reviews. Its pages always aim to show the month to month activities of members. Thanks to the effort of our show secretaries and photographers, it includes accounts of plant shows at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Highland, Hexham and other places.

Articles, or ideas for articles, are positively encouraged from anyone, whether member or non-member.  They will be welcomed by our Editor, Anton Edwards. Enquiries about Advertising in "The Rock Garden" should be made to Ms Ngaire Burston. Please contact either of them using our contact form.

Journal History
The first Journal was published in 1937 and was issued annually. No Journals were printed during the Second World War between 1939-45.  They resumed annual publication in 1948, and became bi-annual in 1951 after the Second Joint International Rock Garden Plant Conference.  In autumn 1981 the issue month was changed from April and September to January and July, so there was only an April issue in 1981, the next issue being printed in January 1982.  In 2000 the SRGC published a 270 page book "Scottish Rock Gardening in the 20th Century" to celebrate the Millennium and this replaced the January 2000 issue of the Journal.  We have only the cover in the link below, but hope to make the whole publication available by scanning the complete book in due course.

Journal Indexes Updated
The following cumulative Indexes (to every Journal since 1933) are available in Adobe pdf format.  As well as being in alphabetical order, these pdfs are also electronically searchable:

We have a NEW Full General and Botanical Index (Cumulative to Issue No 149) which can be used to find names of plants. (The old 2-part version of this index (No 1-142 and No. 142-145) is still available here if needed.)

We have a Contents Index (cumulative to Issue No 152) which lists the titles of articles published in every issue. This Index also includes the countries and mountain ranges covered by each article.

We have an Author Index (cumulative to Issue No 152) which gives a list of the name of every author and the titles of articles written by each author.

We have an Country Index (cumulative to Issue No 152) listing articles by the main country covered in the articles.

We have an Mountain Range/Area Index (cumulative to Issue No 152) which lists articles by the main mountain range covered in the articles.

These new indexes are in draft at present, and assistance with reporting errors, corrections and updates with welcomed. We are also interested to receive comments from users as to the usefulness of these extra index lists.

Journal Archive
In accordance with the SRGC policy of openness and sharing of knowledge, all of our Journals over about two years old are available for public viewing in the table below.

If you wish to see links to the 4 most recent Journals on this page, you must be a paid-up SRGC member, and also be logged in to this website.  This archive is updated continuously.