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An Alpine is a plant that occurs in the region above the tree line and below permanent snow in mountainous regions. Within temperate and boreal regions, the alpine zone can be subdivided into three zones, each with characteristic vegetation types: Lower alpine, with bush and tall herb communities; Middle alpine, in which sedges, grasses and heath species dominate; and, Upper alpine, with dwarf ...
The Scottish Rock Garden Club (SRGC) was founded in Edinburgh in 1933 to promote the cultivation of alpine and rock garden plants by Dorothy Renton, Roland Edgar Cooper and others. The SRGC has meetings, conferences and talks, it publishes a journal and it organises seed exchanges. The registered charity has members in 38 countries.
The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club.It was once described as: "a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains" (Nuttall Encyclopaedia, 1907).
An alpinum adjacent to the King's House on Schachen in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. An alpine garden (or alpinarium, alpinum) is a domestic or botanical garden, or more often a part of a larger garden, specializing in the collection and cultivation of alpine plants growing naturally at high altitudes around the world, such as in the Caucasus, Pyrenees, Rocky Mountains, Alps, Himalayas and ...
Mary Lee Minor is a member of the Earth, Wind and Flowers Garden Club, an accredited master gardener, a flower show judge for the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs and a former sixth grade teacher.
On these trips, John explored the mountains and glaciers, collected plants, sketched scenery, drew maps, and acquired a comprehensive knowledge of the area's geography, history, and culture. He was an early member of the Alpine Club and wrote several articles for its journal, including one on the Maderanerthal, an area he helped popularise.
The yearly average for deaths resulting from mountain climbing in the United States is 25, according to the American Alpine Club. In 1956, there were 53 deaths -- the highest number recorded.
The German Alpine Club consists of 356 legally independent sections with a total of ca. 1,520,000 members. [1] These are distributed all over Germany, the number and geographical density of the sections increasing markedly from north to south: for example, whilst there is only one section in post code region 17 (Neubrandenburg), there are over 20 sections in Munich.