Booking for the THIRD CZECH INTERNATIONAL ROCK GARDEN CONFERENCE is
going well but filling up fast
Registration is still open, see
http://czrgs.cz/conference-registration2.html
*The Event is planned for 10 – 15th May 2017 at the Congress and
Educational Centre Hotel Průhonice,* only 15 kilometres from the centre
of Prague
in the vicinity of the castle and two state parks of Průhonice which is
24 kilometres from Prague Ruzyne Airport and just a hop from the highway
D1 Prague-Brno.
The main idea is to have very compact economic conference connecting
attractive lectures and exploring the best local rock gardens plus, of
course,
the May Alpine Show of the Prague Club and the medieval baroque parts of
Prague.
David Rankin (Scotland): The modern plant hunter: searching for
long-lost primulas
Robert Wallis (England): Flying to the Heights of Turkey: some
highlights of the mountains
Brigitte Fiebig and Michael Mauser (Germany): Persian treasures for
the Alpinehouse, Tracing Dionysias in Iran ( (Impressions of
Dionysias in their natural habitat from trips in 2015 and 2016)
Henrik Zetterlund (Sweden): My favorite bulbs and how I use them in
different gardens
Panayoti Kelaidis (USA): Keeping in Steppe: cushions and rock
plants from the semi-arid plateaus of the world, and how to grow them in
a garden setting
Martin Hajman (Norway): The arctic rock garden in Tromsø. Rock
garden construction and excellent conditions for growing of high
altitude plants
Vojtěch Holubec (CZ): Chinese flowering Paradise
Zdeněk Zvolánek (CZ): The Crevice Garden and its Plants
You can learn more here http://czrgs.cz/conference.html or in the
Scottish Rock Garden Club forum -
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14036.0 where you will also
find details of the previous conferences, if you need further
enticement to attend.
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