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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 30, 2007, 12:57:37 PM
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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!
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I have already thought of a daily update
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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!
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Safe trip to everyone going to Prague and have lots of fun ! We'll be on the look out for pictures.
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OK
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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?
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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.
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some of the gardens are easy with no rock climbing experience needed
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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.
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Julia Cordon has gone too
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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!
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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The garden and plants of Jaromir Grulich
aethionema
androsace
compositae
daphne
daphne
daphne cneorum minima
delosperma congesta
dicentra
hillside
hillside
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Jaromir Grulich cont.
lewisia
lewisia
lewisia rock face
myosotis decumbens
pinus mugo
pinus mugo
potentilla
unknown
unknown
viola
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Super shots Mark....keep them coming please....we are all entitled to drool!
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Mark
I think the unknown pink legume is possibly an Astragalus.
cheers
fermi
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....or maybe an Oxytropis....usually difficult to tell apart....
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The garden and plants of Jiri Novak
androsace
crevicing
crevicing
daphne cneorum
dianthus microlepsis
erigeron scopulinum
iberis and phlox
myosotis and saxifraga
phlox
phlox
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Great post, please keep them coming
Rob
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The garden and plants of Jiri Novak continued
sempervivum
trough
erigeron scopulinum
trough and sax house
tufa
tufa
tufa bed
tufa pot
unknown composite
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Can there possibly be a better place to visit........LIVE!
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Carlo,
it was definitely a place you have to see to believe, but even the Exhibition in Prague cannot match the private gardens; all the ones we saw were astounding.
BTW can anyone identify the matting erigeron in the last trough pic above? The gardeners we asked just called it Erigeron sp.
cheers
fermi (in Stockholm, where it is still early spring and Erythronium Pagoda was in full flower at the Botanic Gardens as were many other bulbs and early perennials.)
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The daisy is Erigeron scopulinum. I now have a plant ;D
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The garden and plants of Zdenek Rehacek
allysum
androsace
aquilegia
aubretia
aubretia
campanula
gentiana verna alba
globularia
iberis
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The garden and plants of Zdenek Rehacek - continued
peony
peony
phlox
phlox
phlox
phlox
phlox colvillii
poppy
poppy
sempervivums
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The garden and plants of Zdenek Rehacek - continued
Trollius lemon
unknown composite
unknown composite
unknown ... E. Canary Bird?
rockery
rockery
rockery-scree
Eriogonum
Eriogonum
Arnebia
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Is the peony in the previous post molly the witch?
Lovely thread, I'll check back in the morning to see if there are any more pictures
Rob
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you'll be lucky!
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Bus one was early on the first day so we took in an extra garden. I cant remember who he is.
cones
rockery
rockery
rockery
rockery
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The Arboretum Pruhonice
Lonicera
Lonicera chrysantha
Azaelea
Tulips
Tulips
Tulips
Tulips
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The garden and plants of Jiri Papousek
crevicing
crevicing
Daphne
Daphne
Erigeron
Phlox
Rhododendrons
Rhododendrons
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The garden of Oto Vlasak
Aster
Aster leiomuris
Erigeron
ferns
Hymenoxis acaulis
Hymenoxis acaulis
Jasione
Jasione
Phlox
Phlox pulvinata
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The garden of Oto Vlasak continued
Polygala
rockery
rockery
rockery
rockery and pond
scree
unknown
unknown
unknown
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The garden of Oto Vlasak continued
unknown
Veronica
vertical crevicing
vertical crevicing
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The plants and garden of Vojtech Holubec
Centaurea
continents
crevice
Erigeron
grafted conifer - time to remove the stock leader
grafted conifer - time to remove the stock leader
Hypericum
Hypericum
Hypericum
Rhododendrons
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The plants and garden of Vojtech Holubec continued. Yes I spent too much time blown away by the witch's broom!
witch's broom
witch's broom
witch's broom
witch's broom
witch's broom
witch's broom and Erigeron
witch's broom troughs
witch's brooms
witch's brooms
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I do have big calves! I havent seen my legs from this angle before.
It would be very surprising if you had, Mark!
Is that a piece of tufa? How does Jiri mow around it, right up to its base?
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The Czech Rock Garden Club show - some plants
aster leiomuris
azaleas
campanula biebersteiniana
erigeron chrysopsidis
erigeron chrysopsidis
erigeron clokei
gentiana acaulis
gerben
hymenoxis acaulis caespitosa
hymenoxis acaulis caespitosa
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What a marathon effort Mark. Our profound thanks for all the pics and your time and efforts posting them. It seems a fabulous place with outstanding rock gardens. I hope you're feeling better now.
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The Czech Rock Garden Club show continued
hymenoxis scaposa
iris reichenbachii
lamium armenum
lewisia marenka
phlox pulvinata
pinus ss
pinus strobus sea urchin
townsendia
townsendia montana
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a marathon indeed and I now need to go to bed. Two more days to edit. 2.25GB of photos taken over the four days
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that I dont know but the grass underneath is dead. I suppose he lifts it out of the way. He had the greenest grass I/we have ever seen
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He had the greenest grass I/we have ever seen
And that from an Irish man!
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Wonderful gardens and pictures Mark. Thanks for showing them to us.
How do you manage to keep a record of what the pictures are, as well as taking them at the same time?
I had enough problems with the few I took at Harrogate.
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Mick there are more plants unknown than named. If it's gardens that you mean I took the photos off the cameras after dinner each night. And to aid me I took a photo of each gardener at the start of each visit. I would love to know all the plants.
Each garden was totally different from all others. Many said this is "fantastic I want to do this" at each garden. Most had water in the garden but one guy, a garden designer, had a lake with fish that he caught to eat. He brought us through the garden via what seemed to be the garden, a witch's broom pinetum, and suddenly there was the rockery with natural running water a little spoilt by the white hose that diverted some from the natural brook or what ever a tiny stream is called. All gardens had witch's brooms a couple had huge numbers. Vojtech's son, David, has his collection at the front of the house. Alas he has lost the love. Deciduous Rhododendrons, Azaleas, featured in four gardens. Why were we blown away by the selection of plants grown? They can't pop down to the local nursery as there isnt one. All plants are grown from seed and everyone props plants to share with friends and visitors. I'm sure those selling plants made a fortune last week. I bought a lot of plants, double figures ;) but some bought 100+.
Would I go again? tomorrow!!
Two of the longest travellers were forum members. Fermi and Otto
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Hi Mark
In post #14 the first unknown after the Trollius is the prophet flower, Arnica, I think; the next is a type of Eriogonum.
Unknown composite 3-2 is an erigeron, possibly "Canary Bird"???
cheers
fermi
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I'm in awe. :o
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elsewhere I mentioned a bug bite and swollwn ankles. Talking to The Bug Master he knew immediately what bit me - Anthocoris nemorum. You will see here why I described it as having the same pattern as the socks of female Scottish dancers http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id30443/ (http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id30443/)
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...Could that be Arnebia echioides in post #14, Fermi and Mark?
Wonderful images Mark....I know it is greedy but do you have any of the delegates please so that we can put faces to names?
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I'm still curious about Susan's fascination with Mark's legs....... ::)
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I'm still curious about Susan's fascination with Mark's legs
No mystery, there, Anthony... we've heard that the food wasn't very good: the poor girl was hungry !
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How many marvels Mark !
What a shower of great plants and immaculate gardens !
Thanks for showing us !
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I wonder how many lurkers that you met are spying on us right now Mark? Come on guys, join in. We don't bite, and you won't get snowed under with emails, even if you do give out your name and email address. I don't even opt for the automatic emails that can be generated by 'new postings' as I prefer to look for new postings rather than have them rammed down my throat. ::)
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I presume there was alcohol available in East Bohemia....perhaps Susan was actually 'legless' herself?
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No mystery, there, Anthony... we've heard that the food wasn't very good: the poor girl was hungry !
That might be another explanation for Mark's bites? ::) Highland dancer's socks. Red herring more like?
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Yes to the Arnebia and I'd say the two under it are one of the Eriogonums?
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To dispel any myths that I have a fascination with Marks legs, here is a full length photo of Mark and Julia at the top of the garden of Jaromir Grulich. This was an amazing garden built from a huge cliff, He planted directly into the cliff face and natural screes. There were Daphnes, Lewisias, conifers and loads of other things all growing out of the cliffs.
A picture of Julia and our very patient guide for the bus trips, Vojtech Holubec, behind them the rocks are all planted up in a most natural way. Unfortunatly it was the only garden Mum didn't manage up.
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One day our guide looked decidedly younger. David Holubec with Margaret G, Julia and Mum at the Aboretum Pruhonice.
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Arnebia and Eriogonums named and added.
Mr Grulich actually absailed down the hill side to plant in inaccessable places. He is 65+ and still carries watering cans of water up the hill to water newly planted treasures. During the winter he can be snowed in by 2m of the white stuff so spends winter evenings carving flowers in to pieces of wood
For those in to wildlife we saw lots of birds many new to me. From memory there were White Storks, Buzzards, Ravens, Marsh, Hen and Montagu Harriers, Kestrels, Nuthatch, Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, Green Woodpecker, Black Redstart, Redstart, Short-toed Treecreeper, Wood Warbler, Peregrine, Kestrel, Serin, Yellowhammer ..
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the garden and plants of Karel Lang
Pinus mugo beaten over tye years with a stick to candle it
Saxifraga sales area x2
Sax longifolia ssp gaussenii x2
Sax cuttings x2
show plants x3
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The plants and garden of Milan Cepicka
the view down the steps
bonsai Beech
unknown composite x2
crevicing x4
Dianthus x2
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The plants and garden of Milan Cepicka - continued
Edraianthus
Erigeron and witch's broom conifer
Erigeron
Erigeron chrysopsides
Erigeron scopulinun pink form x3
Iris
Leontopodium x2
tiny Saxifraga
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The plants and garden of Milan Cepicka - continued
stepped crevicing
unknown
witch's broom conifer
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The garden and plants of Milan halada
Androsace and Veronica
crevicing x3
dwarf Lilac
natural limestone fold
Pulsatilla x2
quarry face and scree below
Silene
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The garden and plants of Milan halada - last one
witch's broom conifer
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The plants and garden of Stanislav Cepicka - brother of above
various ages baby bugs - parents have tribal mask on their backs
Centaurea x2
Convolvulous
dwarf Lilac
Erigeron x2
Erigeron scopulinum
Eriogonum ovalifolium var nivale
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The plants and garden of Stanislav Cepicka - continued
Muscari
tufa
unknown
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The plants and garden of Zdenek Zvolanek
Aquilegia
Aquilegia scopulorum x2
composite
crevicing
Daphne oleoides x2
Dianathus
Erigeron scopulinum
Genista
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The plants and garden of Zdenek Zvolanek - continued
Lupin
Muscari?
Phlox
rockery x2
unknown
unknown
unknown
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The plants and garden of Jiri Sladek
Acer and Rhododendron
Acers and pond
Androsace
Attention! Beware of the dog! If we hear you we will come out. If we dont lie down and keep still. Good luck!
miniature bog garden
cat flap
composite
crevining and pond x2
Cypripediums
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The plants and garden of Jiri Sladek - continued
Cypripedium
Daphne x2
weeping daphne
Dionysus
Dionysus caespitosa x2
dogs water blowl - miniature stone trough
Erigeron bloomeri
greenhouse rockery - spoilt by ugly labels
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The plants and garden of Jiri Sladek - continued
greenhouse rockery x3
house x 2
Junelia x2
overall view of back garden
Picea
Rhododendrons
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The plants and garden of Jiri Sladek - continued
trough - very long and narrow c3m
unknown
unknown
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The plants and garden of Milan Odvarka
Antirrhinum molle x2
Aster alpinus x2
Centaurea
composite x3
delosperma x2
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The plants and garden of Milan Odvarka - continued
Gentiana verna alba
Helianthemum x3
house
Hypericum
Lewisia
Penstemon
Linum
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The plants and garden of Milan Odvarka - continued
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The plants and garden of Milan Odvarka - continued
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The plants and garden of Vladimir Stanek
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Sensational stuff Mark....I continually ask myself; "Why didn't you go, you stupid man"?
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Cliff this is my third trip to see Czech gardens and although I have now seen some twice now I will return. One complaint to too many gardens and not enough time in them. Some would take 4 hours to go around because every time you go round you'll see something else.
I just hope that all the forum members who attended start showing images - Diane, Josef, Fermi, Otto, Susan and Julia. The many lurkers who attended should show photos too. Why keep them to yourself!
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Mark,
you must be getting exhausted by now !
The series of great, special and vitually unknown plants seems to continue endlessly !
Thanks for the efforts !
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Lovely male Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis Mark. A species copnfined to the dunes north of Merseyside and dunes and heaths in the south of England (unless you include the introduced colony on a sunny Scottish island. Notice the tick sticking out of its ear hole! :P
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Luc thats it from me
Anthony the female is out of focus behind him
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Too busy looking at that fabulous male to notice, but you're right. How close did you get?
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Mark,
A great report, with excellent photographs of brilliant plants.
A question on the troughs in your last posting of photographs, the one with the large stones in it: is this a natural stone trough or one made from cement etc.?
Many thanks for all your work.
Paddy
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It has been very enjoyable reading these threads.
Thank you, Mark
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THANK YOU, MARK, FOR YOUR TAKE ON THE CZECH VISITS... YOU ARE RIGHT, OF COURSE, WE WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE PHOTOS FROM THE OTHERS WHO ATTENDED TO GET THEIR IMPRESSIONS, TOO.
I am mightily impressed by the standard of these gardens. Full of plants grown to superb standard and in settings, both natural and carefully contrived to appear natural, that can only inspire and delight us all.
What pleasure these gardeners must get from their efforts and how lucky are we here in the forum to share a little in the experience?
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Mark,
many thanks for showing the gardens I missed out on because I left early. But none of the Dvorak Museum?
cheers
fermi
(currently in Göteborg, sitting at Gerben's desk!)
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thanks for the comments everyone
No-one had fake troughs in their gardens. Trough sizes ranged from the ?dog's water bowl to 3m and maybe longer. On the last day we passed an antiques bazar with lots of troughs for sale
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Fermi I have no interest in the classics so didnt pay any attention to the museum. Many on the bus though we could have missed it out. Pity you missed the huge garden with the lake. It was a great end to the trip - for my bus anyway.
Dvorak Museum - my only photo
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Mark, why do you have a new avatar that makes you look like a bulldog chewing a wasp?
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Mark,
It has been very enjoyable seeing these beautiful gardens, because I visited nearly all. Thank you,
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maggie, after spending a week with us on a bus, you would feel as if you had chewed a wasp
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first Lesley and now Maggi :'(
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Franz your name came up many times during the conference. You had an invite but we heard you had a bad fall but you're now OK
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Mark
Thank you for sharing the wonder of the Czech gardens. (I would have been there however 3 weeks before the event I broke my leg :'(. ) Now I see I must go there - hook or crook!
Charlotte
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THANK YOU, MARK, FOR YOUR TAKE ON THE CZECH VISITS... YOU ARE RIGHT, OF COURSE, WE WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE PHOTOS FROM THE OTHERS WHO ATTENDED TO GET THEIR IMPRESSIONS, TOO.
Pictures will come shortly!! After getting home on Friday, I then spent all Saturday at Malvern Show, all Sunday potting up my 94 plants I bought (yes, Cliff, one is a buttercup) and attending to all my other plants which had not had my attention for 10 days or so (they have had the attention of my husband, but it's not quite the same ;) )
After taking a breath or two, now I will start sorting out my photos.
I would have been there however 3 weeks before the event I broke my leg :'(. ) Now I see I must go there - hook or crook!
Charlotte, you wouldn't have been the only broken leg there, although I noticed the plants taking precendence over disabled wife as to who got the wheel chair. Perhaps Ian B will post the picture! ;D ;D
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WHAT A LITTLE WINNER YOU ARE MRS. C. :D :D :D :D
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Cracking pics Mark and am looking forward to Diane's.
Did Lionel Clarkson behave himself on the trip?
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WHAT A LITTLE WINNER YOU ARE MRS. C.
Don't get too excited, it's nearer to repens than glacialis
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Did Lionel Clarkson behave himself on the trip?
Again, pictures to follow on this aspect .....
Maybe Lionel the lurker will post some of his own as well ;D ;D
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Are you talking about Lionel from Birmingham? If so I think his wife out bought everyone. I bought two Ranunculus - crenatus and alpestris
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Just back home after a few days away in Ledbury visiting mum-in-law and have spent the best part of a pretty wet afternoon catching up with the Forum and in particular Mark's wonderful Czech pictures. Those Czech's are some gardeners, I think if I ever get a second chance on this earth I shall come back as an apprentice gardener in Praha.
The few days away had meant to include a trip to the Malvern Spring Show (just up the road from Ledbury) last Friday, but mum-in-law wasn't up to it so it was nice to see Rob's pictures and see some of what I missed. Instead we got her into the car and had a run through some of the Welsh marches (one of my favourite areas) and included a visit to Lingen to see one of my favourite Nurseries (Kim Davis, the owner did some of his training at Inshriac at the same time as Jim Jermyn) but found that the Nursery is closed at present and will not be opening this year. Missed out again!
Mark, what on earth have you done to your avatar? In it you remind me very much of Mark Simpson, the BBC News Reporter with the Ulster accent, on a very, very bad news day. It's not you at all!!
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See, Mark, David agrees with Lesley and I !
If you didn't like the bulldog/wasp thing, how about "you've lost a pound and found sixpence" ? Give us back Smiley Mark, please!
Lionel is from Blackpool, not Birmingham, he's the AGS/SRGC Blackpool Show Secretary and a nifty grower, too.
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frowning due to bright sun. I'll get a new one when someone comes
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Mark,
we could not join the post-conference tour , but now we can do it the virtual way by your excellent pictures. Many thanks for it!
We visit the Czech rockgarden friends since 25 years almost annually, and it was not always such an easy travelling when the Iron
Curtain was existing. Some of the gardens are well known to us.
The conference was for us an outstandig wonderful event with the company of so many friendly people;thanks to the Czech officials,
which did such a wonderful job!
Catering was not so bad for us, the Bohemian kitchen was maybe new to you.
Rudi
(The one,who recommended you the conifers at the show)
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My pictures of the show are not brilliant but will start here in the interests of chronology. I'll try not to duplicate any of Mark's but odd swaps may creep in.
Crevice and cacti
Crevice work
conifer crevice
Erigeron leiomerus
Leontopodium alpinum nivale
Gentiana acaulis
massive haberlea clump
Rhododendrons
Calanthe discolor
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Hello, Rudi, we appreciate you voicing your thanks to the conference organisers.....they must have been very busy indeed to stage such a packed conference programme and also all these wonderful tours.
I am sure that we should be grateful that it is now so much easier to visit these friendly Czechs and their wonderful gardens in these times. There is so much to learn from their skills.
Catering was not so bad for us, the Bohemian kitchen was maybe new to you.
perhaps that is something else we could learn? ;) :) :D
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Did Lionel Clarkson behave himself on the trip?
Let's sort out this. There were two Lionels on the trip. One from Birmingham on Mark's bus and Lionel Clarkson from Blackpool on my bus. Here is latter, judge for yourself whether he is behaving himself
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But what was he photographing? ??? Cliff hold your breathe now please. ::) :P :o
In trying to reply to John F's question, this has got all out of order and so I will answer this question in Day 1 East Bohemian circle.
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Good heavens, TWO Lionels! Who'd have thought it! Was Lionel from Birmingham with his wife Diane ? The Barnwells? I didn't know they were going... they are SRGC chums! They came to their first SRGC discussion weekend in Pitlochry, a great couple. lots of fun... I'm sure neither of them were behaving themselves!!
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But what was he photographing?
From the angle of his knee bend,I estimate some Czech gravel :P But I'd lay money on a buttercup, if the Bookeroo is invloved!! ;D
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Good heavens, TWO Lionels! Who'd have thought it! Was Lionel from Birmingham with his wife Diane ? The Bramwells?
That's them, I think they're Barnwells. That also makes two Dianes. And two Zdeneks that I counted. ;)
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Day 1 Jiri Novak's garden
For those who like to put faces to names:
The second pic has Rick Lambert inspecting an acer
the 6th has the owner, Jiri, with Harvey Shepherd from East Lancs (and he also been spotted north of the border on occasions)
the 7th is a wonderous sight in the open garden! ;D ;D ;D
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hey Rudi! I saw that conifer in many gardens during the post conference tour. Many thanks for suggesting it.
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the blue flower is Eritrichium
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and he also been spotted north of the border on occasions
Indeed he has! Harvey is a "weel kent face" in Scotland and we enjoy his ferns and other plants he brings to shows, too!
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Our second garden on the 1st day was Oldrich Maixner. He had a garden several km away from his house (as did several we visited). His potting shed was clinically ordered with tools and pots in serried ranks, and cleaner and neater than most kitchens (well, he was a dentist). All necessities were catered for, with an installed toilet in the shed and a crate of beer.
He had nice groups of trilliums and some good orchids in pots
general view
Trillium sessile and grandiflorum
T sessile
T albidum
Cypripedium parviflorum x calceolus
Cypripedium pubescens
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Mark,
What is a 'fake trough'? - One pretending to be a trough but has no bottom? Can't hold its water? (or compost in its present use?)
No, I'm only kidding, I understand what you mean OK. No trough made from man-made materials.
There certainly were some interesting troughs, some fine long ones. I have seen some of these very long troughs for sale but they were well beyond my pocket. I'm afraid I'm confined to old Belfast sinks or the home-made kind.
And, I have enjoyed all the photographs. The gardens are outstanding. What a treat it must have been to visit them all.
Paddy
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he also had a bed in the shed
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For those in to wildlife we saw lots of birds many new to me. Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, Short-toed Treecreeper, Wood Warbler,
But has anyone ever seen a Splay-Footed Bumble Gobbler?
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There certainly were some interesting troughs, some fine long ones. I have seen some of these very long troughs for sale but they were well beyond my pocket. I'm afraid I'm confined to old Belfast sinks or the home-made kind.
Paddy, had a look at a Belfast sink in a scrap yard (the owner would call it an architectural reclaimation area!) a couple of weeks ago, he wanted £50 (E73, NZD 134.5) for it. Exit me muttering 'bl...y profiteer' >:(
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But has anyone ever seen a Splay-Footed Bumble Gobbler?
Surely, Lesley, you must know that these have never been spotted in the Czech Republic.....and here, at the eastern edge of their range they are now extinct.... all killed for their delicious fur!
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Then how come we can still see them hanging around on street corners here in Lancashire...their fur admittedly matted and in a range of exotic tints, but they are certainly of that particular genus.....one can tell by the distinctive call and embarrassingly short mating ritual?
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So pleased they're still around, even if having had to resort to life in East Lancashire, a sad fate indeed.
Even though they've never been spotted in the Czech Republic, I wonder if the East Lancashire colony is spotted? If so, they would be of the sub species maculata which is characterized by acne-like spots among the matted fur, these appearing immediately before the embarrassingly short mating ritual, and are, in fact, the CAUSE of the embarrassing shortness of the mating ritual. And who cold blame the little critturs?
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You've said it so accurately, David.
My sinks came free, from skips or from people who were replacing their sinks.
Troughs must be home made. Here is one with Cyclamen coum.
Paddy
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going back to avatars if you think mine needs changed Diane's looks nothing like her. She is much younger in reality
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Paddy that one ones very nice almost like furrowed limestone
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Even though they've never been spotted in the Czech Republic, I wonder if the East Lancashire colony is spotted? If so, they would be of the sub species maculata which is characterized by acne-like spots among the matted fur, these appearing immediately before the embarrassingly short mating ritual, and are, in fact, the CAUSE of the embarrassing shortness of the mating ritual. And who cold blame the little critturs?
I think the East Lancs form is almost definitely forma inebriata and can only be found by careful surveillance on the day of an AGS show after lunch on the route from the pub back to show hall. I am less experienced as to their behaviour on SRGC show days but certainly they turn out when joint rules apply.
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The East Lancashire brigade have always had a staunch methodist tradition......though that takes some saying when we've partaken of a few....
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The East Lancashire brigade have always had a staunch methodist tradition......though that takes some saying when we've partaken of a few....
Thanks for letting me know Cliff, I'll remember that on Saturday when it comes to buying drinks. ;D ;D ;D
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Jaromir Grulich's garden in Sedlonov was an incredible natural site in the hills.
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A few from here, trying not to duplicate Mark's
primula juliae
dianthus microleppis
salix reticulata
vitaliana
gentiana angustifolia
gentiana acaulis white
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And our last garden on day 1, Zdenek Rehacek's. This was in a lovely setting with attractive scenery all round.
orange poppy
trollius
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A couple of things that I found fantastic in many of the Czech gardens, firstly the quality of the gentians and secondly the amazing ancient cushions, that we in soggy British climate can only dream about growing outside of an alpine house. The cushion here is Minuartia stellata (previously A parnassica)
gentians
gentians
minuartia stellata
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And as shown in a previous thread "did Lionel Clarkson behave himself" ???
Well, I have to admit that we did indulge in one or two cups of Earl Grey tea in the bar ...
But here is Lionel in action in the field
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And here is what he was photographing. (SORRY, it wasn't fully out, but I've never seen it growing in the open in a garden and it was the best I've seen it in cultivation at all)
It was growing in a scree with vertical drainpipes sunk above the plants to deliver water, moraine-style below the scree. Certainly beats growing it in a bucket-and-2-gallons-of-water-a-day approach that I believe is practised in East Lancs.
Ranunculus glacialis
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Just dashed out in the rain (at 10pm in the Whitworth darkness) to take a quick image of the smallest of my three 'elderly' Ranunculus glacialis (the only one actually in bloom at the moment but, unfortunately, with nibbled petals and rain sodden flowers). It is in an 175mm wide clay long-tom but the foliage is very small and extremely tight. The form was collected by Lionel Bacon in France many, many moons ago.
This does (as Diane states) get two gallons or so of water nearly every day....but not, unfortunately, from underground pipes. The things we do for this forum. I will brave the rain again now and take the pot back out into the darkness.
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'Tis a lot of work... and a lot of water.... but it is a pretty little thing... for a buttercup! ::)
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going back to avatars if you think mine needs changed Diane's looks nothing like her. She is much younger in reality
This is either amazing flattery (what do you want Mark??) or a typo. I think it should read She is much younger in the picture
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Mark,
You would have enjoyed the scene when this trough was made. I made it up at the compost heaps - maybe 30 yards from where it is now. After taking off the formwork I went to move it with the help of my son - it nearly killed the two of us to get it down the garden and into position. Subsequent troughs made on site.
Paddy
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Seeing Salix reticulata growing on the ground gives me the idea to propogate mine and plant a couple in the gravel. My plant in creeping down a trough hugging it tightly. A few stems growing the wrong direction can soon be cuttings in water
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Paddy, if you lifted one of Ian's fake troughs, empty, you'd float away. :D
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A mountain in Praha. Rocks from the Austrian Alps, Kaukasus,...
Mark, do you know this garden?
Hans
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ah, the mountain ranges in Vojtech's garden
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Hi Hans,
It is a pity that you didn’t attend the conference. I had expected more people from Austria, and also a few people from Eastern Europe (Poland – Romania etc. ).
Ewelina, Razvan where were you?
It was an unique opportunity to meet each other.
Jozef
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Hello
I did not attend the conference. Just went for the exhibition in Prague.
It would have been great to attent but it did not work out. Maybe next time.
Jozef, where in Belgium do you live? I plan to go to Bruxelles in June for a few days. Do you have any recomandation for good gardens, nurseries close by?
Razvan
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Razvan,
did you say you were at the Show garden on the Thurs morning?
We were there, Julia, mum and myself. Did we see you, there was one guy there who didn't look local, taking lots of photos, was that you? If so, sorry we missed speaking to you. Will get the seeds I promised you posted soon, its taken a while to get back to normal after a week away.
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Now let me think... My friend Cristina and I were on... Thursday, yeah it was thursday at about... 12 o'clock. I'm sorry we've missed eachother, but then again I was looking more at plants than at people :P
But as a Romanian saying goes: the days haven't all gone into the bag. :P
Thanks for the seeds.
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Here are some pics of the troughs at the entrance to the garden area of the Prague Show.
cheers
fermi
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Well, it's only taken me a couple of months! But here are some more pics from the gardens we visited on the post conference tours.
First, some pics from Jiri Novak's garden:
1.Some troughs.
2. ditto
3.trough with genista
4. Genista sp.
5. Baby jankae in tufa
6. Jankae in flower
7. Close-up of above.
8. Jankae or a hybrid?
9. Phlox bryoides
10. Rhodo. lapponicum
Any comments or corrections welcome!
cheers
fermi
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Better late than never Fermi ;D
Still nice to see more from these fabulous gardens.
Doesn't that Phlox bryoides look great ? I've been looking for it for some years already but never found it :(
Thanks for sharing !