Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Maggi Young on May 21, 2020, 05:11:41 PM
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Those lucky enough to have attended any of the wonderful Czech International Rock Garden Conferences will have visited the quarry garden of Milan Halada - this has now been re vamped and opened to the public....
Karel Lang the Czech Saxifraga master, has posted these photos on Facebook with this comment : " Jiří Špaňhel announced the opening of the Skalničkářské Garden in the Prokop valley on the Prague 5 cadastre, under the professional supervision of Milan Halada. (Among the rock workers also known as halad's garden) The footage comes just after the reopening last year.
first images... there have been considerable changes ....
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some parts are more familiar .....
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final new pix....
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A forum search for Milan Halada will bring up various references to his garden and to plants from seed collected by him being grown by others - and some pix from his garden.
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Some photos from the garden by Ian Christie in 2010
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A group of visitors in the garden in 2013
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from left to right .... Angie, Ian Y (Bulb Despot) Ian Wright Margaret Edwards, (perhaps Helen McGregor with her back to us in cream jacket) Herman Laporte, Chis B (in the background), Zdenek Zvolanek, Milan Halada and Will from Australia ( fermi's other half).
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Maggi that brings back some great memories and as you have just said there are lots of changes so that’s a nice reason for us all to go back . They have put a lot of work into the hard landscaping . I really liked all the gardens and it was also great to meet the owners and see all there wonderful plants.
Angie :)
Yep that’s Helen Mcgregor, she always has her hands behind her back ;D
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Wow! It certainly has been updated! The older pics bring back happy memories.
I wonder if this garden will be on the list for the 4th International Czech Rock Garden Conference?
cheers
fermi
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So nice, to see the new pictures of this outstanding garden. Milan and we are friends since more than 30 years,
we met ourselves many times and exchanged plants and our experiences in cultivation, He was always very
generous with distributing plants and a visit to his garden always ended with a box of goodies.
So we were worried about the future of this place after the political change, and were relieved to hear that Milan
is now employed as administrator of this unique place by the community of Prague.
The attached picture is from a visit of the Czech Rockgardener Brigade to Waiblingen in June 1992:
From left Josef Jurasek, ZZ, Joyce Carruthers, Elke, Zdenek Obrdlik, myself and Milan Halada.