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The Red Kostelec known from the nine fairy tales lies halfway between the natives of Malé Svatoňovice Karel Čapek and Hronov, where his brother Josef was born.Karel wrote, Josef painted and both enthusiastically gardening.In Kostelec also opened Bohumil Procházka Gardening in 1921 - see the opening photo.Eight years ago - as well as a few years earlier the garden of the Villa Čapků Villas in Prague's Vinohrady - was restored by his great -grandson Petr Pacák.

On your business card I noticed the picture from the gardener's year by Karel Čapek.What did you think Capek was a gardener?

As he himself said:."Both capaches were enthusiastic gardeners.Josef was a landscape painter and loved wild nature and Karel Skalničkář.You can see it on their two -viney in Vinohrady.Exactly half of the garden that belonged to Joseph was wild, natural, and Charles such an alpine.

Petr Pacák

Born in 1976 in Trutnov.He graduated from the gardening school in Kopidlna and worked for several years in the Dendrological Garden in Průhonice.Then he founded his own company and began to establish gardens and urban greenery all over the country.Its Trees in 2004 opened the first gardening in black dude.Seven years later he reopened the family horticulture in Červený Kostelec, which was founded by his great -grandfather Bohumil Procházka in 1921.Gardening and Café Trees have become a live cultural center.Concerts of contemporary music, traditional and non -traditional gardening and art exhibitions, workshops for adults and children, lectures or screenings are regularly held here.

Did they consult someone?

Certainly.Both were members of the dendrological society.Its chairman was František Zeman with whom they maintained good relations.Quite numerous correspondence has been preserved in which the plants consulted with it for their garden.The gardener Josef Mišák bought a sketch, but they did not survive.During the reconstruction we were based mainly on the correspondence.

Now do you mean the Trees Red Kostelec?

No, I mean the Prague Gardens of the Čapků brothers.We had the opportunity because we were friends with Mrs. Scheinpflugová, the distant relative of Karel Čapek.And I don't really know if the reconstruction can be said - rather a change.

So how did you approach the restoration of the garden?

I approached a friend Zdeněk Kiesenbauer, who heads the Dendrological Garden in Průhonice.He was looking for correspondence in archives.Of course, some of her private archive was also provided by Soňa Scheinpflugová.We drew the idea of how the garden was created and approached it accordingly.

It was also essential that we knew how Karel Čapek always spoke that the garden should serve mainly current users.We did not want to preserve it in a state of 30.years but adapt the traffic that is there now.

What did you have to “update” the garden?

Rather in individual details.Some places were used differently than at that time.

What about your Kostelec garden?The roots of your horticulture go back to the First Republic.How did she stay in the hands of the family despite the communism?

Praděda built a horticulture on a green meadow in 1921.In two years we will have a hundred years of anniversary - but sixty years of horticulture did not work.Under Communism, of course, was expropriated.The municipal enterprise operated it for a while.And then the gardeners from other municipal gardening basically stolen him.After the revolution, the ruins of the property returned to us and then lay fallow for a long time.Only when my father stopped persuading me to reconstruct it, it began to inspire me more - and that was the impulse.

Dad

„Až když mě otec přestal přemlouvat, abych to zrekonstruoval, začalo mě to víc inspirovat – a to byl ten impulz.“

The gardening building was obviously designed by an academic architect, with an excellent café, sometimes concerts.How does all this fit together?

As our customers say: “Very well."We are happy for that.When the traffic showed how these things will work together, even if we somehow counted with them ahead.We re -opened the horticulture.We knew she would be nice to have the opportunity to sit down and give coffee when the guests walk between plants.And because I lived in Prague for twenty years, he went to music and felt that I was returning to the end of the world where there was nothing (it turned out to be unnecessary concern), I built a wooden podium that I would bring music to the music.And because I had my friends and acquaintances who made it, I invited them first and then it was packed.

With a café it was similarly.At first we had four tables in two places and then we had to export the shelves from today's space of the café, which was originally intended as a fertilizer and herbicide store.Fortunately, I had them clearly on wheels.We gradually expanded the café.Of course we had the intention to make an outdoor garden café, which is in the summer when the weather is nice, the most used.And we followed the space for children.

Trees

You can buy things for the garden at the mall.Or you can try a sales garden.Trees have two - in black dude near Prague and in Červený Kostelec in East Bohemia.Plants can be seen in the garden, not as insulated pieces on the shelf - so you can easily imagine them at home.The gardeners will contribute to the advice, and if you see it for a larger project, you can arrange a garden architect.

And each place has its own specialties: in Červený Kostelec to the garden is followed by a garden café and there are concerts, in the black dude have pits and carp that you can take, and organize workshops, exhibitions and lectures.

So the goal was to offer an experience that no one else can offer?

I guess I didn't think about it completely like that, it was all close to me.Café, music and gardening.

How did you choose the architect?

Based on previous experience.Our main activity is the realization of gardens.Pavel Šmelhaus we did a few for his customers.Pavel specializes in low -energy buildings, which was nice to us, and I wanted a sensitive building that will respect what it looked like here.The disposition has not changed much.I also like modern architecture.Packing her in the greenery was the task for me and Zdeněk Kiesenbauer, he helped me a lot with it.For years I had time to think about what it might look like, and together with Pavel Šmelhaus it was formed.We had time for that, which was fine.

You said you were addressing musicians yourself.Has anything changed in this respect?Do you have someone set aside for dramaturgy, or is it still under your direction?

Still in my direction and I would like to tell me unfortunately.With my busyness it is not quite easy.Then I sew it a little with a hot needle.I would like to take someone who has time and did it properly and honestly.For the next season, one handcuff on my fire…

In addition to concerts, you organize gardening exhibitions with expert commentary.When I imagine my parents, the seedlings and instructions from the Internet would be enough for those.What is the interest in these courses among the local courses?

Workshops are not big.Participants are from five to twenty depending on what the workshop is.We usually have them occupied.Sometimes some surprise us pleasantly so we have to do two behind.Like last year about cutting old fruit trees.

So can we say that the interest in horticulture is balanced in people from Prague or larger cities and red -sewers?

We do culture and workshops mostly in Červený Kostelec, where we have a larger facility.In the black dude, respectively in Prague, which is ten minutes, rather colleagues workshops for children, and there is a great interest.Parents are happy when they can try growing or planting.

Rather, I was thinking if the Praguers wouldn't go to Kostelec here.

I am not entirely able to judge.I think a lot of cottagers come to us.Maybe even for workshops, but rather I think that the local people from the wider area go to.But when Honza Budař once did a survey in his show, where he was, I was unpleasantly surprised that there was a minimum of the church, and quite a lot of people from Prague.

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There is a lot of talk about drying up the landscape.How can gardeners reduce water consumption and keep it as long as possible in the beds?

We try to explain to customers that they should mainly retain water and not let it drain away into the sewer.Rain to catch from the roofs of the houses to the retention tanks from which they can water.When the soil is too sandy, it is good to add clay particles into it.But most of all the problem is the opposite.Especially around Prague, the land is heavy, clayey.With permeability usually there is no problem.

According to the water manager Jiří Malík, English lawns are total density for the ability of the soil to bind water.How do you come to English lawn.

(laughs) I haven't solved that yet.For me, the lawn is an area with a utility value.If there are daisies, dandelions and someone suits it, let it be.When someone wants a precise lawn, you need to water it more often.Zhouba it can be when you don't have a sufficient water source.Capture rain but use expensive urban drinking water.I also don't like flushing drinking water.Unfortunately, hygienic rules are still making it difficult, watering rainwater or well and converting it into operation.Café.We did not come out at all.

Why do they have such a problem using rainwater?

I have no clue.Maybe it's an outdated dogma.Most often they argue that water can mix in pipes and is a hygienic risk.I think it's a weak argument.Somewhere in private homes are already doing well.Even in those operations, even if everyone betrayed me that it would be with it and I would have to go to analyzes often.

I know the difference only between the English and French garden.Can you know the garden from the 1970s and from the early twentieth century?

Certainly ano.Much depends on architects.Houses are made increasingly angular, glazed and gardens are connected.More flowering flowers, ornamental grasses, deciduous trees more than coniferous.The 1970s and 1980.It has disappeared.Some garden architects use them, but otherwise the trend has shifted a lot.

About fashion trends or trends in flower arranging are spoken in one piece, but as it is in the horticulture.Do gardeners have something like their "golden sixties"?

Now the trend is to return to the roots;Biists, people buy a lot of herbs, utility plants and fruit trees.Pay God, it seems meaningful to me.When a person works more with the soil, it model it.

Photos: Petr Pacák and Trees Archive.cz