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So I promised I'd post photos of the crazy huge rose gardens we have here.. I just went out and took a handful of photos, however was unfortuantely interrupted by a nice violent thunderstorm! Thus, there is not too too many at the moment, but I'll take more when the skies clear. This week is when its all in peak bloom I guess so It looks mighty nice. the photos don't even do justice to the size of this thing.. 29 thousand bushes, 213 varieties from 32 countries. HUGE! The gardens are set up in a basic format like three roses (if you look at it from an aerial view thats what you'll see..sortof). The center rose in the biggest--its dark red flowers and meant to represent the 192 men of Lidice that were murdered. The smaller multicolored rose on one side is to represent the children of the town that were murdered in concentration camps, put up for adoption, or never returned home. The photos from today are of this rose bed. On the other side of the garden you have another smaller (when I say smaller I mean a few thousand rose bushes by the way..) one thats light
red and pink meant to represent the women/mothers of the town. The garden was originally called the "garden of friendship and peace" but was renamed many a times. Funding was originally done by the government, but with the major government overhaul here in the 90s they lost national support to keep it going. Through private supports and the Czech cultural ministry its been up and running again since about 2002. The grounds folks are out there every morning.. There has to be at least 7 of them every day working to keep it up. Quite the project! In the center of the garden you'll see a big statue/water fountain (photos will be coming..) and in front of that its like a semicircle with plaques of remembrance for towns that suffered similar tragedies in WWII like this one did. Something interesting to note: Hiroshima is the first plaque on the wall.
Anywhoo, I'll let ya'll look at the photos. Also some from yesterday meandering Prague included!
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