4 SRGC Forumists at the Rock gardener's weekend in Czech Iron Mts.

[ruweiss]

The Rock Garden Club Prague had this traditional weekend from 16-18 October at Horni Bradlo,122 km east of Prague.
About 100 persons joined this meeting and had a good time with many fine lectures and good bohemian food and beer.
Even 4 forumists were among the participants,at the photo you can see from left Jozef Lemmens from Belgium,
Michal Hoppel from Poland,Zdenek Rehacek from Czech Republic and me from Germany.
The travel to this place was a true adventure,masses of snow covered the roads and the wet and heavy snow damaged
many trees.Some even fell over the roads and my friend had to wait until the local fire brigade cleared the way with
the chain saw.
It was a pity,that the planned trips to intersting places around and garden visits had to be cancelled,but a marathon
of outstanding lectures was a good substitute for this.

[Lesley Cox]

I think with all that snow about I would be wearing more than a shirt and jersey on my top half. You must be very hardy gentlemen.

[mark smyth]

Extremely Lesley. Zdenek is wearing slippers!

[Lesley Cox]

Wow! I hadn't noticed that. Chilly, eh?

[ruweiss]

Lesley,hardy plants need hardy men-but I must confess,that the picture was taken between two lectures
and we were only for a short time outside.
People from this region told us,that they did not experience such an early snowfall since 40 years. We saw
apples still hanging on the trees,corn standing in the field and decidous trees with green leaves.
The following day brought higher temperatures,so the people could fortunately  save their crops.

[Ragged Robin]

Extraordinary scenes with all that snow and shirtsleeves - a warm friendship keeps out the chill and it looks a spectacular setting, Rudi