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/garden - themes / alpine - garden / careen - garden - club - of - prague/,http://www.soldanella.cz;www.skalnicky.czSeed exchange : is undefended to all members in good standing for the year 2005 . The seed list is distributed together with this Bulletin vol . 4 in December . instruction are put in there . society for seeds are accept byMrs . Anna Benešová , Molákova 580/26 , 186 00 Praha 8 , Czech Republic . We give thanks alldonors for their generousness to donate cum . Annual coming together : Saturday , 4 March , 2006 , 8:45 to 15:00 o´clock . Museum of Police , Na Karlově , Prague 2 . written report on Club activites , awards of grower for their exhibited plants . Slide show . Lecture : Jaroslav Baláž – Visit to the Turkish mountainsShows : includingplant salein the traditional show church building garden on Karlovo náměstí – Moráň , Prague 1,9 a.m. to 6 p.m.(dates are also shown on the RGC Calendar under „ Výstavy “ ) , past bulletins and book sale .
Lectures:(17:00 , Na Novotneho lávce , Prague 1)4 February 2025 – Martin Hajman – Collections of Pruhonice alpinum – 120 years11 January 2006 – Petr Hanzelka – America15 March.2006 – Jiří Šlégl – Middle Africa and New Guinea12 . April 2006 – Vojtech Holubec – Kamchatka .
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Excerpts from the Bulletin
Juno stenophyllaand its grow – V. Lajn pg . 135Both subspecies of this plant the source grow a rock - plant life greenhouse situated on southwestern side of his garden in central Bohemia . It need stony , very permeable , moderately alkaline soil . The web site must be protect against summer rains to secure the good ripen of bulbs , which is an essential given of safe growth of the plant . Its demands are about the same as of for instance Juno persica . Juno stenophyllais one of most precocious mintage of this genus and its subspeciesallisoniiblooms even a little earlier than the typical race . It also blooms promptly and produces more seed , which are better germinant .
Erodium acaule – L. Kodídek pg . 149At least since ten age the author grows this industrial plant in his rock music garden , which is situate at altitude of about 350 m. It demand a plot deflected from the unmediated high noon sunshine and permeable stony ground with minimum content of hoummos and calcium . It need not to be covered in winter .
It bloom luxuriantly and for a long time , from the goal of May to the coming of frosts . About 50 per cent of flower produce seeds , which after ripeness are “ shot out ” into the surroudings . In malice of it , this flora does not show any tendency to turn into green goddess , because the unwritten seedlings are not numerous . The seeds are to be inseminate in fall or in former leap . The propagation is also possible in vegetative way by sort out of lateral rosettes in spring or in fall . They must be then hold back under glass . How to supervise the rock music garden ? – S. Čepička pg . 168
The rock gardeners often shoot the breeze me to ask advice what they should grow in their rock garden . I have devoted myself to this hobby already over twenty five years . My garden lies in central Bohemia about 200 m a.s.l . on southwest slope , where it is exposed to sunshine from 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The filth is form by disintegrated schist .
I explicate them that the choice of sortiment is most crucial . I depict them my errors arisen from lack of experience , when I tried to develop various cold - loving and hydrophilous plants which I liked , but which weren`t suitable for this eccentric of biotope . Only repeat nonstarter run me to the idea to spring up first of all the tuberous and bulbous plant from the Balkan Peninsula , Central Asia and other warm and ironical regions .
All gentians and other cold - living plants I gave to my crony , whose rock garden lies in a higher site . The results were evident within a short time . All plants recover as dot with elixir of life story . The change of sortiment has try out to be very good in my garden , too , so that I have grown these plants already for a longsighted clip all age round without wintertime cover . Many John Rock gardeners ascribe my recent successful results mainly to the chemical penning of the schist advert above , thanks to the balanced proportion of magnesium , Ca and atomic number 15 . I know , however , that for the booming condition of them in first place the permeability of substratum and intensive sunstroke of my garden are creditworthy .
Arisaema dracontium – J. Šlégl pg 150TheArisemaspecies seem more frequently in Czech garden in the course of the last years . Beside Asian specie , also two North American plants are to be see among them , viz . Arisaema triphyllumandA. dracontium .
The writer obtained four seeds forA. dracontiumin January 2003 from Canadian seed exchange . He sow them at once and waited , whether they would shoot in spring . This happened at the beginning of June . Before wintertime he precautiously transferred the modest tubers into cellar . In spring 2004 he was surprised by one plant which get into bloom and even produced fruits . At the beginning of hibernation he took out one genus Tuber and plant it into humose earth in the grove part of my garden , the other one he maintain in the container . In this class both plants already bloomed and produced fruit , too .
Rock flora of the genusAnthyllis – D. Hetzerová pg . 147Recently the author grows in her rock garden in central Bohemia two mintage of the genusAnthyllis , viz . A. montanaandA. vulnerariain red form . She growsthe both plant life in a insolated land site in permeable soil and do not provide them with winter covering . A. montanashe propagates both by cuttings and by sowing , because it sometimes produce fertile seed in her rock garden .
A. vulneraria , however , sometimes must be specify by slipping of some fruits to forestall the excessive spreading of them .
Several times she grew in the same way alsoA. hermanniae . This coinage , however , never survived three long time , even when cover in wintertime .
genus Allium insubricumorAllium narcissiflorum?- E. Hanslík pg . 152The generator treats deviation between these species and report his experience with the culture of them . The plant life ask arenaceous - loam grunge ( proportion 1:2 ) in web site exposed to sun . The presence of calcium or limestone or dolomitic Harlan F. Stone in soil is favorable for plant , fertilizing is to be recommend , too . The separating of the bunch of bulblet in spring must be made carefuly to keep the damaging of the rootstalk below them . The
Penstemonspecies in my garden – M. Mally pg . 145The author growsPenstemon caespitosuson slope expose to sun in terra firma arrest small Stone with add-on of pine litter and sand ( proportion 1:1:2 ) . This plot is partly covered with a terrace and moreover it is brood with foil in wintertime . The flora are popagated by divide the settle down parts in other spring . productive seeds are not produced .
In a like plot of land alsoP. davidsoniiis grown without winter coating . The ejaculate are produced in sufficient amount , but the writer propagate this species only in vegetive way by taking herbaceous newspaper clipping with woody radix , which he then keeps under glass .
P.hisrutusvar.pygmaeusis a tenacious plant , which grow in various places of the rock garden . It keeps up by rich spontaneous sowing .
Iris verna ? – M. Lhotská pg . 161The writer points to the characters by which the speciesIris lacustrisandI. cristataare different fromI. verna , which they are often confuse with .
As see their polish , they are undemanding and longlived plant life . I. cristatagrows on the top of the authors limestone rock garden in central Bohemia.I.lacustrishas been plant in garden earth in a position protected from noon sunshine . They dont produce any come in the culture , they are diffuse by dividing of rhizome in other spring or after blooming .
Helianthemumfor pocket-sized tilt garden – A. and O. Beneš pg.158Of the low-spirited - growingHelianthemumspecies , the authors cultivate in their rock garden in primal Bohemia ( altitude 300 m)Helianthemeum canumandH. oelandicumssp.alpestre . Both species have been cultivated in a sun - exposed site in permeable and not very nutritive substratum . The product of seeded player has not bee observed in them as yet . They are propagate in sowing of seed from natural localities in a sowing mixture in January or by herbaceous cuttings taken at start of June and observe in a substratum mixed of coarse sand and peat ( ratio 1:1 ) .
newfangled plants in my rock garden – Z. Řeháček pg . 138The autor report on the finish of new plants in his rock-and-roll garden in northeastern Bohemia ( 500 m s.s.l . ) .
Aethionema caespitosum . He planted this specie twice in his rock garden , but his joy in both cases was short . Even when he set it in the second pillowcase in a site protected from noontide cheerfulness , it did not help , and the plant died aside in summer , Alyssum caepitosum . The author spring up it on the southern slope exposed to sunshine in well permeable ground , no cover is used for winter . As it produces no seed , the writer distribute it by cuttings from June to August . The plant pictured here is already 8 age old . Androsace rigida . After several eld of growing the author has stated that this plant can be produce rather easy in pots with permeable substratum , providing that it hibernates in glasshouse . The planting in his rock garden , however , never was successful . It grow only few seeded player . The generator circularize it by cuttings and partly by sowing . genus Brachycome aculeata . The plant was develop on the usurious northwestern side in acid part of the stone garden . It lived for several age there and bloomed doubly or three multiplication . However , it did not grow any seeds , and during one rather hard wintertime it got mislay without replacement . Corydalis buschiiis grown in a heathland plot exposed to insolate from 10 a.m. The winter it survived uncover , its bunch is permanently farm , so that the source intends to divide it . Dianthus versicolor . This plant comes from drier home ground , so that the condition of authors garden were not favourable to it . Once it bloomed , but then it did not last the moist autumn and winter . It produced no seeds . genus Erigeron elegantulusdemands desiccant sites especially in summer . It does not stand the comportment of calcium in soil . In a cheery , well - drained web site it kept up for 4 years . Minuartia circassica . In the authors opinion , this species can be grown without any job . It demands only cheery site and otherwise normal condition . primrose minutissimais a flora which the author has grown already for 12 years , but it has not bloom as yet . He replace it double by new cut , planted it in pot with permeable soil placed in a possibly coolheaded site and still is hope to see it come in bloom . Ranunculus brevifoliusgrows reliably on the northern side of author`s rock garden in permable earth . Every twelvemonth it regularly fall into bloom of youth and produces several fruits . Veronica grandiflorawas grow by author three clock time , but only in the third attempt it bloomed . However , its peak were not so big as given in the lit . In no case it survived the summer heat . Viola alpina . This viola metal money is train solely in crevices of a travertine rock-and-roll locate on the northern slope . This year it produced first seed , which were sow in .
Veronica armena – M. Blažková pg . 159The generator grows this plant in several sites of the easterly and westerly slope of her limestonne rock garden in fundamental Bohemia ( altitude 200 m ) . It has been planted in permeable terra firma , in wintertime it is not covered and during the sultry conditions is watered in the vulgar way , mostly in late eve . It produces only few seeds , the self-generated sowing go on rarely . The author propagates it successfully by making cut ( about 8 cm in lenght ) from not - blooming stem in spring or at beginning of fall .
