A reminder about the Czech Rock Garden Club Autumn Meeting: The likes of Rudi Weiss have reported favourably on these meetings in the Forum in previous years.
Klub skalničkářů Praha
The Rock Garden Club Prague
Klub skalničkářů Praha, Maříkova 5, 162 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic
www.soldanella.czDate: October 19 –21, 2012.
Place: Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Sporthotel – Bohemia
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http://www.sporthotel-bohemia.cz)
This is the seventeenth informal meeting of rock-gardeners.
The programme includes a lecture/slide marathon, visit to local gardens and trip to Labská louka (Elbe River spring) Krkonoše (Giant Mts.) on Saturday morning. The Krkonoše Mts. National Park (KRNAP) is famous for its glacial relic vegetation.
Programme/announced speakers
The organisers present an invited speaker from England, UK:
John Richards : 1. Asiatic Primulas
John is a world expert on the genus Primula, he is an author of famous monograph Primula and author of many research papers. He is a former President of the AGS and has been awarded the Lyttel Trophy by the AGS.
The lecture is partly sponsored by AGS.
2. Greek Peloponese – John's second lecture
The next speakers are:
Josef Jurášek and Vojtěch Holubec – Spring Turkey
Zdeněk Řeháček –2012 travels with RGCP,
Jiří Novák – New Saxifrages
Cedrik Haškovec – Colour forms of Gentiana asclepiadea in Krkonoše Mts.
Vlastimil Pilous – Plants from my rock garden and mountains
Robert Roth – Rock garden in Slovakia
Zdeněk Zvolánek – Alpines in Canada
Vojtěch Holubec – plants in the Far East: Sakhalin and Kamchatka
Lectures will be in Czech, translation is available to foreign participants.
The price: 2.000 CZK includes accommodation, transportation and a board: foreign participants will pay a bit more to support translation. Payment after arrival.
Departure by bus from Prague: Na Florenci Str., near metro B station, opposite to Masaryk Train Station at 3:30 p.m.
Application to be sent to Petr Antonín (antoninpete@seznam.cz), phone 420-224 316 314, 732803026 or by snail mail to, Farní 3, 162 00 Praha 6.
Please, mark if you wish to go by bus or use your own transportation.
