Prague early spring show

[Pauli]

I have e-mailed the Prague rock garden club last year for the 2014 date of the show, but got no answer yet.

Has anybody here an idea about the date in 2014?

[Maggi Young]

I will pass this question to Jiri and ZZ - they will know, I am sure

[Jozef Lemmens]

Herbert,

This is a part of a mail I got a couple of days ago.

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Klub skalničkářů Praha pořádá v letošním roce výstavy v termínech:
jarní                  23.3. -  2. 4. 2014
květnová               7.5.  - 24.5.2014
podzimní               8.9.  - 20.9.2014

Výstavy se konají v Praze na Karlově náměstí v zahradách vedle Faustova
domu denně 9 - 18 hodin.

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[Maggi Young]

Prague Club events :

Spring   23 March  - 2 April 2014
May 7 May  - 24 May 2014
Autumn 8 September. -  20 September 2014

The exhibition is held in Prague Charles Square in the gardens next to Faust house daily 9.00-18.00 hours.

[Pauli]

Thank you very much Maggie and Jozef!
My wife wants to visit Prague; i am going to make the timetable that there are also "other" highlights.....

[Maggi Young]

ZZ tells me that the Prague early spring show is now open - I do hope that all who visit will enjoy the show. 

[ChrisB]

Green with envy..... Will you post us a few pics Pauli please?

[Pauli]

I am going to Prague next weekend and hope then is better weather - now is 2C and wet snow! I will try to get some nice pictures!

[angie]

Green with envy..... Will you post us a few pics Pauli please?

Me too, it brings back good memories of a great holiday 

Angie 

[Pauli]

Just back from sunny and warm Prague
The show was nice with lovely big Saxifragas (mostly I think from Karel Lang), the sale not as good as ten or fifteen years ago!

Here some pictures:

[Pauli]

Some more:

[Pauli]

The last ones- hope you enjoyed them.
Pictures are not the best ones, but I was not allowed to move the plants.

[David Nicholson]

Thanks for posting Herbert. The Czechs can certainly grow Saxfrages.

[Tim Ingram]

What a fascinating way of displaying the plants. If it wasn't such a long drive we would boost the numbers at the Show. It reminds me very much of some of the displays I have seen in Japanese gardening magazines, but of different plants of course (we have a friend who visits us regularly and shows us these). Saxifrages will be on the agenda in the next year or two I think, especially after the article about Waterperry in the recent AGS Journal.

[Maggi Young]

Very exciting to see those Saxifragas- we were so pleased to be given a lovely assortment from Karel Lang after the Czech  Conference last year.  Especially fun to see, in the "home" of so many superb saxifrages that plant  with it's feet firmly in English soil, S. 'Allendale Bravo', raised by Ray Fairbairn - and one of those featured in the IRG #35 of November 2012 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Nov291354225242IRG35_November2012.pdf

The Saxifraga section of the forum is one that tootles along quietly - not making any waves, but very well supported, nonetheless - a metaphor for the sax growers generally, perhaps!

Edited to add Stan da Prato's photo of SRGC Subscription Secretary Christine Boulby with Ray and Mrs  Fairbairn at the Hexham Show last Saturday. Small world, isn't it?