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Author Topic: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015  (Read 2914 times)

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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015
« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2015, 02:45:16 PM »
Three of the helpful folks ready to assist  visitors to the Show and sale


More photos of the plants for sale .....






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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015
« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2015, 02:46:15 PM »
More to choose from - what  an array!





more saxes for sale!

   
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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015
« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2015, 10:05:18 PM »
Looks like a rock gardener's heaven.   What an incredible sale!
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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2015, 02:33:33 PM »
More photos from the Prague show : http://www.cysnews.cz/fotoalbum/skalnicky-praha-2015/#photo_12898


pic by  Jiří Cysař

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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015
« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2015, 07:06:07 PM »
Thanks for the link, Maggi.
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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015
« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2015, 05:48:02 PM »
Hello Maggie thanks for all the pictures fantastic plants and people, pity we could not be there but in some ways has saved the bank balance from a very severe knock,  cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2015, 09:08:43 AM »
Hello Maggie,

Thanks for the fantastic pictures, it is like being there (mmmm .... nearly like being there  ;D). Do you accept orders?

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Prague Spring Alpine Show MAY 2015
« Reply #22 on: May 06, 2015, 03:15:14 PM »
May's Big Spring Flower Show 2015 / Velká jarní květnová výstava květin 2015  has begun in Prague
Here is a short video by  Jiří Cysař who has also written about the show  http://www.cysnews.cz/clanky/akce-v-mestech-cr/velka-jarni-kvetnova-vystava-kvetin-2015.html - in  Czech, of course.



This photo shows ZZ collecting top dressing for the show gardens  just a few days ago!


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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show May 2015
« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2015, 05:46:25 PM »
Some photos from the KSP  Prague Show - they are lucky with the weather so far.


Some visitors enjoying the display


Tomorrow at 11am there is a guided tour of the show and at 2pm a trough demonstration by Zdenek Zvolanek


Delospermas
Rhodohypoxis
Dianthus  etc
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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show May 2015
« Reply #24 on: May 08, 2015, 05:48:24 PM »
a long bed

bed with central rock

and two shots of sales plants
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Prague Spring Alpine Show MAY 2015
« Reply #25 on: May 11, 2015, 11:08:00 AM »
The English version of an article written by  Jiří Cysař ( mentioned in post  on  May 6th )

http://www.cysnews.cz/en/articles/news/in-the-centre-of-prague-is-possible-to-spend-time--in-oasis-of-peace-and-quiet.html

Photo of the show ground by  Jiří Cysař

 Also, Karel Lang , the Saxifraga Maven, has posted  in Facebook this photo of the show, where  he admires the work done on the display.


Bark pieces used in woodland area below an old oak during current Prague Show. Arranged by Jiri Strohalm.
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Re: Prague Spring Alpine Show 22nd March - 3rd April 2015
« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2015, 10:29:10 PM »
The Prague show has closed now - but there is another article  :
http://www.e-newspeak.eu/skalnicky-u-fausta-nepotrebuji-zadna-kouzla/    - the text is in Czech  but there  is a super photo gallery. 
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