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Use for: SRGC

• a large Scottish horticultural society founded in Edinburgh in 1933. It promotes the cultivation, study, and preservation of alpine, rock garden, woodland, and bulb plants. Operating as a registered charity, it connects an international community of plant enthusiasts.

• A genus comprising of coarse herbs of the figwort family (Scrophulariaceae), native to open woodlands in the Northern Hemisphere. The common name refers to an early use of these plants in treating hemorrhoids, an ailment once known as “figs.” They are rather tall, frequently fetid plants with purple, greenish, or yellow flowers in large branched spikes.

• the figwort family of flowering plants, one of 26 in the order Lamiales, containing about 65 genera and 1,700 species with worldwide distribution. It contains no crop plants of great economic importance but is notable for many ornamental garden plants, such as butterfly bush (Buddleja), Diascia, Nemesia, and many others. Some, such as the mullein (Verbascum), are troublesome weeds.

Use for: Lychnis Tourn. ex L.

• genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the pink, or carnation, family (Caryophyllaceae). Campions are distributed throughout the world, and several are ornamental rock-garden or border plants.

Use for: sledding, snow sliding