Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010

[mark smyth]

Anyone on the forum living in or close to Berlin?

I have been asked to give a lecture during a four day common swift, Apus apus, conference. I would like to see some gardens or meet forum members.

[mark smyth]

anyone?

[Onion]

Sorry Mark,

more than 500 km far from Berlin. You have their the famous garden of Berlin-Dahlem with the new tropical house and the botanic garden in Potsdam.
I think we have a thread about a garden in Berlin last summer ?

Uli

[mark smyth]

an excellent tip thank you. I am staying beside Templehof on Mainzer Strabe

[Maggi Young]

I think we have a thread about a garden in Berlin last summer ?

This is the thread:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3854.0

[Ulla Hansson]

It is a great plant market in the Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dalhem 10-11 April 9.00-18.00.
Ulla

[mark smyth]

oh no that's all I need to hear. Maybe I can miss the lectures on 10th. What kind of plants are available?

[Onion]

Mark,
all you need to get a poor man. Alpines, herbs, bulbs, shrubs, carnivorous plants etc. . A friend of mine sell shrubs in the last 4 years. He think this is one of the best "plant markets" in Germany.

[Onion]

Mark,

here is the link to Berliner Staudenmarkt.


http://www.bgbm.org/BGBM/pr/new/April.htm

[mark smyth]

all went well and unfortunately no time to escape. The lectures over ran every day with Saturday over running by two hours.

The weather was cold and only 5c the day we left. Arriving home I hear it was 18C

Fabulous and cheap food. Lunch every day was Turkish. Breakfast at a close by sandwich shop was only 8Euro for four people. We ate different every night. Italian, French, Turkish. All much cheaper than the UK

[Anthony Darby]

Sounds like you've had a brilliant trip Mark. Now to await the swift return!

[mark smyth]

Yesterday I watched the sky too much. April 17th last year was the first swift seen in N Ireland but April 25th when I had the first back at my colony. If only they had telephones they could rush here for the weather

I heard today that 14 countries were represented at the meeting. The next meeting will be in 2012 in Eliat, Israel at the university

9 swifts are due to return to Sweden in mid May carrying geolocaters. A geolocater http://www.birdtracker.co.uk/index.html weighing .6g and 20x8x3mm is carried by the swifts like a backpack. The device records sunrise and sunset every day. If/when the birds return they will be caught and have the geolocater taken off and the data removed. It will show where the swift has been all year. Because it is so small it is only accurate to 70-100 miles / 100-150km but this is good enough to show how it travelled to and from south Africa

[mark smyth]

Chocolate prices in Germany are way too high. Why? Twix/Mars in the UK c50p. In Germany 1.50!

[Anthony Darby]

I wouldn't go to Germany and buy a Twix or a Mars bar when you can get real chocolate.

[Gerdk]

I wouldn't go to Germany and buy a Twix or a Mars bar when you can get real chocolate.

Much better if you try German beer - you'll feel also happy after tasting it!
 

Gerd