Introduction:2nd International Czech Rock Garden Conference - 2-5 May 2013

[Maggi Young]

No costs yet, Anne, but you can see videos of the hotels by following the links from the Czech website or below...... they look rather nice.....
CONFERENCE:
Date:    2.5. – 5.5.2013
Place:    Town Tabor , situated 90 km south of Prague
http://www.taborcz.eu/EN/
Venue:    Wellnes and congress Hotel Dvorak ****
http://www.dvoraktabor.cz/en


POST CONFERENCE GARDEN TOUR
Date:    6.5. – 10.5.2013
Place:    Roztoky u Prahy
Venue:    Hotel Academic ****
http://www.academic.cz/en




Keep an eye on the wbsite, Folks, any news will appear there: http://www.czrgs.cz/conference.html

[mark smyth]

Jiri, will we have to find our own transport to and from the hotel?

[Maggi Young]

For anyone thinking that they want to visit Prague NOW...... you have a couple of days still to visit the early spring rock plant exhibition: Spring Exhibit 25th March 2012 (Sun) - 4th April 2012 (Wed)  http://www.soldanella.cz/eng/

[Maggi Young]

update as of May :
Czech Rock Garden Society  http://czrgs.cz/conference.html


2nd CZECH INTERNATIONAL ROCK GARDEN CONFERENCE

Speakers:    (to be confirmed):

Martin Sheader (England) - Flowers of the Patagonian Mountains. Rock plants from South to North along the Patagonian Andes
Ian Young (Scotland) - Small bulbous plants in cultivation. An SRGC sponsored lecture.
Dieter Zschummel (Germany) - Plant exploration in Iran
Peter Korn (Sweden) - Growing in sand. Rock and scree garden construction near Goteborg
Vladimir Epiktetov (Kazakhstan) - The top plants from flora of Kazakhstan/ Central Asia. Partly sponsored by SRGC.
Michal Hoppel (Poland) - Rock gardening in Poland. Rock garden construction in practice - rocks, crevices, troughs, walls and its plants'
Zdenek Zvolanek (CZ) - American Golden West. A song to remember Zdenek´s late partner, Joyce Carruthers
Vojtech Holubec (CZ) - Chinese flowering Paradise. The best of flora of China and Tibet.
Jiri Papousek (CZ) - Czech crevice gardens. A Guide to interesting gardens.
Jaroslav Klíma (CZ) - Growing of alpines in the field. From rock gardening to industry.
Zdeněk Zvolánek (CZ) - Charm of Balkan. To remember Czech sources of alpines within iron curtains in the past.

Update February 2013 : Mr Klima has withdrawn from the event and is to be replaced by "Rock Garden plants from  Turkey"  from  the Czech "senior" seed collector Josef  Jurášek.

Workshops:    Ota Vlasák at al. - RG in Troughs
Ian Young – Propagation of bulbs
Cyril Lafong - Alpines in pots

[Lesley Cox]

I am very happy with the latest update on the Czech Conference, especially the prospective visit to the alpine show. I also want a couple of days at least in Prague to hear, if possible, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Disks and DVDs are fine but the real thing is a chance not to be missed. I hope they will be in or near Prague at that time, and playing.

All those plants I won't be able to buy. But perhaps I can get something for someone else.

[Maggi Young]

News from Jiri to all interested in attending the conference :

Dear Sir, Madam,
I am pleased to inform you that Conference web has been updated and
registration is now available.
All details you can find on http://www.czrgs.cz/conference.html

Best regards

Jiri Papousek, CZRGS

[Maggi Young]

I have been contacted by  some members who wish to attend the conference and who would like to find others to share a room with, to save costs.
Also I have at least one person who has arranged a room share for the conference part, but who needs a room share for the garden tour section.

 If you are happy to share with someone for the whole event  or for either  parts, please contact me at info@srgc.org.uk and I will put you in touch with potential sharers!
Thank you!

[Lesley Cox]

There is the thread where Maggi has posted the various ongoing announcements about the Czech Conference but we can't post a reply there. I'm sure there was a thread where we could reply. Why it is important (to me) at the moment because having sent off a registration through the Conference website, I urgently need to print the pages with payment and accommodation information. I daren't risk a wrong account number and in any case would prefer to take the page as printed into my bank rather than perhaps have them tell me (as they did last time I went to pay for Czech seeds) that no such numbers existed or that they couldn't access them. If I can take the info straight from the Conference site, it will be safer I think.

BUT - I can't see anywhere on the Conference website, where I can click "Print." Jiri, or someone, can you help me with this please.

[Maggi Young]

Hi Lesley,
 Not sure about the printing question..... we haven't heard from Jiri about a query we hd lately so perhaps he's away.

I'll put a link to this thread in the notice thread to help directions!

I have been contacted by  some members who wish to attend the conference and who would like to find others to share a room with, to save costs.
Also I have at least one person who has arranged a room share for the conference part, but who needs a room share for the garden tour section.

 If you are happy to share with someone for the whole event  or for either  parts, please contact me at info@srgc.org.uk and I will put you in touch with potential sharers!
Thank you!

[Maggi Young]

There is a thread here for your comments : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8484.new#new

[WimB]

There is the thread where Maggi has posted the various ongoing announcements about the Czech Conference but we can't post a reply there. I'm sure there was a thread where we could reply. Why it is important (to me) at the moment because having sent off a registration through the Conference website, I urgently need to print the pages with payment and accommodation information. I daren't risk a wrong account number and in any case would prefer to take the page as printed into my bank rather than perhaps have them tell me (as they did last time I went to pay for Czech seeds) that no such numbers existed or that they couldn't access them. If I can take the info straight from the Conference site, it will be safer I think.

BUT - I can't see anywhere on the Conference website, where I can click "Print." Jiri, or someone, can you help me with this please.

Lesley, just try the print-function of your webbrowser...normally you'll be able to print the page you're on from there!

In Internet Explorer, open "http://czrgs.cz/conference-payment.html", right click anywhere on the page with your mouse, and that'll open a menu in which you can choose print
In Firefox, open "http://czrgs.cz/conference-payment.html", open the firefox menu (top left side), chose print

[LisaPalmerNH]

Hello!
 A new forum member here, signing in to say that I just registered for the Czech conference.  I saw some photos from my friend Marianne of the earlier conference and I am quite excited about attending.

Kind regards, Lisa.

[Maggi Young]

Hi Lisa,
 Great to have you join us. I'll look forward to meeting you in Tábor.

Tough decision for North Americans to take, I know, when there is a NARGS Study weekend at the same time, but the Czech occasion is a more rare event.
I think we will all  have a great time!

[mark smyth]

Has anyone in England booked flights?

[Maggi Young]

Quite a few of us in Scotland have..........