Czech Alpine Conference and Tours May 2007

[Maggi Young]

N. B. Bringing all the threads for this event together.  May 2016


As the time approaches for those lucky folks to begin their journey to Prague for this exciting event, I would like to remind you all that those of us still "at home" would be really pleased if you'd take lots of photos of the plants, the people, the gardens and post them here on your return to let us have a taste of the happenings! Have fun and "haste ye back" as we say!

[mark smyth]

I have already thought of a daily update

[Maggi Young]

That would be really great!
Mark, Fermi de Sousa is coming to Scotland and up to Aberdeen for our show... If I need to get in touch with him, or he with us, while in Prague, could we do it via you and your mobile? Not that i anticipate anything, just thought it might be handy to have a contact plan!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Safe trip to everyone going to Prague and have lots of fun !  We'll be on the look out for pictures.

[mark smyth]

OK

[Heather Smith]

The gardens are so fabulous that choice of pics will be the difficulty.  If the weather is as good as it has been here recently it will be wonderful.  No matter how much I do in advance of leaving I am always in a headlong race to the starting line.
Nevertheless I hope to get a visit to Glasnevin Botanic Gardens on my way to the airport.
By the way, who else is going from England, Scotland, Wales etc?

[Maggi Young]

Susan Band is going. Ian and Carole Bainbridge, but Carole has her leg in plaster so could not make the garden visits even if the airline will take her ,so that is up in the air. Quite a few more, I think, too.

[mark smyth]

some of the gardens are easy with no rock climbing experience needed

[mark smyth]

I have a taxi number for those who want to go to the hotel this way instead of bus or train. The cost 950 Koruna. I have used this taxi company. They are good.

[Carol Shaw]

Julia Cordon has gone too

[Maggi Young]

Julia Cordon has gone too

So she has!
Julia and some of the Gang phoned last night from Prague, where it seemed everyone was having a good time.... Mark assured me he had "found" Fermi and Otto, and Gerben was his usual enchanting self, if a little reluctant to be having to leave the proceedings to return this morning to Gothenburg. Both Bainbridges are there, in spite of Carole having leg in plaster..... Jean B. has a really bad hip and Margaret G. is still in stitiches... yes, it is a branch meeting of the Scottish Wrecked Gardeners Club!
Oh, to be hobbling around with them!

[fermi de Sousa]

We were treated to an exceptional range of talks and have now started seeing an exceptional range of gardens!
I cannot believe the huge variety and the rarity of some of these plants; the Czechs are the absolute masters of rock gardening, yet each garden has been different and a masterpiece in its own right.
Anyone who hasn´t seen these gardens doesn´t know what they´ŕe missing!
The pics will have to wait till we can each get back to our computers to download them - then watch out!!!!
cheers
fermi

[Susan Band]

Thought I would annoy Mark by putting the first Pic on the forum from the garden tours. It includes his legs which were open to the elements rain or shine. Taken in Jiri Novak's Garden, the first one we visited, a plant world in minature.
I will let Mark get his photos sorted out and he can let everyone see the wonderful time we had. I think it will include  a lot of " this is wonderful" , "what an amazing garden"

[mark smyth]

I do have big calves! I havent seen my legs from this angle before. Been working on photos for a few hours now and feeling not too well. Sore gut and head ache. Must be the reaction to good food. ps I was bitten numerous times on the legs and arms and the reult of one is a very sore swollen left lower leg

[mark smyth]

The garden and plants of Dr. Oldrich Maixner. Sorry my over all shots werent good enough to post

delosperma congesta
 androsace
 daphne cnerorum pygmaea alba
 delosperma congesta
 erigeron aureus
gentiana verna alba
 geranium cinereum
 iris reichenbackii
 phlox