NARGS is for gardening enthusiasts interested in alpine, saxatile, and low-growing perennials. It encourages the study and cultivation of wildflowers that grow well among rocks, whether such plants originate above treeline or at lower elevations. Through its publications, meetings, and garden visits, NARGS provides extensive opportunities for both beginners and experts to expand their knowledge of plant cultivation and propagation, and of construction, maintenance, and design of special interest gardens. Woodland gardens, bog gardens, raised beds, planted walls, container gardens, and alpine berms are all addressed.

市川さくらそう会の会員のmouse1948さんのブログ。毎回アップする写真が楽しみなブログです。

＜Organization History＞(copy from their official Website)

Up to the year 2009, International Florist Organisation Florint was named the “European Federation of Professional Florists’ Associations" (FEUPF in short). This federation was founded way back in 1956, in Strasbourg. The founders were a number of National Florists’ Associations that worried about the possible threats of the advancing European integration. On the other hand they simultaneously saw opportunities as well, if they proved able to create and intensify cooperation between their associations at the European level.

Nowadays, Florint organizes and politically represents the national Florist Associations of 20+ European countries. Membership applications of various other countries, outside Europe as well, are currently pending.

Florint thus represents a relatively small, but in no way negligible part of European industry: about 100.000 European florists together generate a total turnover of more than 15 billion Euros. More than 350.000 people earn their living in a flower shop, of which 150.000 are estimated to be paid employees.

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デンマークにあるプリムラの愛好家組織

To improve access to scientific literature, we have created Botanicus, a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of digitized historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. We have been digitizing materials from our library since 1995, focusing primarily on beautifully illustrated volumes from our rare book collection. Botanicus has been supported by generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the W.M. Keck Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL consortium works with the international taxonomic community, rights holders, and other interested parties to ensure that this biodiversity heritage is made available to a global audience through open access principles. In partnership with the Internet Archive and through local digitization efforts , the BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature , representing tens of thousands of titles and over 100,000 volumes.

アメリカからカナダ、イギリス、日本まで会員をもつ、国際的なプロムローズの愛好家団体。日本とは浪華さくらそう会と交流がある。