Garden – Zdeněk Zvolánek

  The one rock garden has a nice background from a natural rock cliff. The stone is igneous called dolerite. The slope is in Czech Karst and is called Beauty Slope. The old rock gardener here is Zdeněk Zvolánek and the place is a village named Karlík. Two rock garden outcrops are in the front of. house: the old one is from dolomite limestone and is decorated with large Daphne x ´Meon´. The new crevice garden is in the street and is full of heat resisting plants. Zauschneria cana (seedling of cv. ´Dublin´) is shining orange for late summer, Oenothera ´Shimmer´is dwarf with fine foliage. Very decorative is the twice flowering rose Chrysanthemum weyrichii.

The main slope is decorated with 6 Abies cilicica and filled with steppe plants such as Aethionemas, Moltkias, Genista, Daphnes, Hypericum olympicum, Paeonia etc. and Fibigia triquetra. Between the slope and the cliff with Sempervivum arachnoideum is a large flat area filled with Pulsatilla subslavica and P. pratensis, Daphnes, Cyclamen coum and plenty of smaller species and bulbs. This garden is an example of planting which is not artificially watered in steppe climate.