Vojtech Holubec lecture in Birmingham

[Diane Clement]

The 2010 Roy Elliott Memorial Lecture
will take place on
Saturday 20 November 2pm
at the Holy Name Parish Centre, Great Barr,
Birmingham (just off Junction 7 off the M6).

The main lecture will be:
Vojtech Holubec: "My Rock Garden and Plants"

and this will be preceded by the photographic lecture:
Diane Clement: "Digital Tips and Tricks"
find out how to (digitally!) get rid of greenfly and move boulders
 (doors open at 1pm for Plant Sales and coffee)

Entry is free to all
Nursery stall provided by  Pottertons
Plus members plant stall, raffle, refreshments, etc

Click here for more information, directions etc:

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/groups/Birmingham-and-District/reml

[Maggi Young]

Sounds to be another great day organised by the Birmingham and district AGS group.... hope you get lots of visitors and that everyone enjoys these super talks.

[Maggi Young]

For other fans of Vojtech, you may like to know that he will be appearing at the Saxifrage Society Autumn meeting in Northampton, in association with the Androsace Group and local AGS groups. ....
http://www.saxifraga.org/news/items/autumn2010.asp

"Autumn meeting : Sunday 21st November 2010 - with Vojtěc Holubec
Our special guest speaker is Vojtěc Holubec who will be talking about Plant Hunting in Asia with special reference to Androsace and Saxifraga.

Times are 13:30 - 16:00

The venue for the meeting will be:

St Peter's Church Hall.
High Street. Weston Favell
Northampton. NN3 3JX

There will be plant sales, used book sales, refreshments, and a raffle.  Small quantities of Pumice and Perlite etc. may be available for sale.  Please bring sale plants (Androsace, Saxifrage and other alpines) using the usual double label system."

Enjoy!!

[Maggi Young]

I hope everyone who attended the Birmingham event today had a good time ?

 Anyone around to tell us how it went??

[Diane Clement]

I hope everyone who attended the Birmingham event today had a good time ?

 Anyone around to tell us how it went??  

Hard for me to say from the inside  
We had an excellent attendance, I hope everyone enjoyed it, we had some really nice feedback.
Vojtech was fantastic, lectured about his amazing rock garden
I couldn't resist going to Northampton on Sunday to hear him again talk about Saxifraga and Androsace in Asia, another brilliant session. 

[Rob Potterton]

I enjoyed listening to both of Vojtech Holubec talks this weekend, the first in Birmingham featured his garden and plants grown there; Jackie and i particularly enjoyed the images showing construction of his rockery. Yesterdays talk for a joint meeting of Androsace & Saxifraga groups was even better showing many stunning new plants from his travels, many of these are included in his recently published seed catalogue. I came away with a long list of goodies to include in my order.
Must state that we also enjoyed Diane's digital talk; this would make a good presentation for local groups.
Thanks to organisers of both events.

[Maggi Young]

Must state that we also enjoyed Diane's digital talk; this would make a good presentation for local groups.

 Aha! I'm glad to hear you say that, Rob, because I had a feelingthat would be the case..... excellent news!

[Maggi Young]

Vojtech was fantastic, lectured about his amazing rock garden
I couldn't resist going to Northampton on Sunday to hear him again talk about Saxifraga and Androsace in Asia, another brilliant session. 

 I just knew you'd go to Northampton!! 

 Pleased to hear it went well at both events.... lucky people to have had that treat.