Czech Alpine Conference and Tours May 2007

[Susan Band]

One day our guide looked decidedly younger. David Holubec with Margaret G, Julia and Mum at the Aboretum Pruhonice.

[mark smyth]

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 ..

[mark smyth]

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

[mark smyth]

The plants and garden of Milan Cepicka

the view down the steps
bonsai Beech
unknown composite x2
crevicing x4
Dianthus x2

[mark smyth]

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

[mark smyth]

The plants and garden of Milan Cepicka - continued

stepped crevicing
unknown
witch's broom conifer

[mark smyth]

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

[mark smyth]

The garden and plants of Milan halada -  last one

witch's broom conifer

[mark smyth]

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

[mark smyth]

The plants and garden of Stanislav Cepicka - continued

Muscari
tufa
unknown

[mark smyth]

The plants and garden of Zdenek Zvolanek

Aquilegia
Aquilegia scopulorum x2
composite
crevicing
Daphne oleoides x2
Dianathus
Erigeron scopulinum
Genista

[mark smyth]

The plants and garden of Zdenek Zvolanek - continued

Lupin
Muscari?
Phlox
rockery x2
unknown
unknown
unknown

[mark smyth]

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

[mark smyth]

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

[mark smyth]

The plants and garden of Jiri Sladek - continued

greenhouse rockery x3
house x 2
Junelia x2
overall view of back garden
Picea
Rhododendrons