EU v vrtnicah | The EU and Rose
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Vrtnica ‘Probuzení’
Država nastanka: Češka (Čehoslovaška)
Kar se tiče vrtnic, je obdobje prve Čehoslovaške ključno zaznamoval Jan Böhm. Bil je drevesničar, žlahtnitelj in poslovnež. Do leta 1950 je ustvaril 120 sort vrtnic in večino imenoval po čeških osebnostih.
Med njegovimi sortami je veliko spremenjenk (mutantov) obstoječih vrtnic, ki jih je verjetno opazil med množično pridelavo sadik. Takšna je tudi sorta ‘Probuzení’, ki je nastala na popenjavki ‘New Dawn’. V tujini so Böhmovim sortam radi dajali druga imena: tako je ‘Probuzení’ na zahodu postala ‘Awakening’.
Drevesnico je imel v mestecu Blatná, ki leži približno 50 km jugozahodno od Prage. Začel je na dveh hektarih površine z letno pridelavo 5.000 sadik vrtnic in se do začetka 30. let razširil na 30 hektarov njiv, prodajo pa je povečal na 200.000 sadik letno. Prodajal je ne le po Evropi, marveč po celem svetu.
Imel je talent za promocijo in prodajo. Blatná je postala splošno znana po cvetličnih razstavah in množičnih ogledih rožnih polj. Imel je v načrtu, da v mestu postavi vrtničarski muzej in rozarij pod steklom, kjer bi vrtnice cvetele v vseh letnih časih, a je prej izbruhnila vojna. Med njo se je preusmeril na gojenje jagodičja, žita in krompirja.
Še preden je Böhm po drugi svetovni vojni uspel obnoviti pridelavo vrtnic, je komunistična oblast leta 1950 njegovo posest podržavila. Podjetje je prevzela mestna komunala, Böhm je bil upokojen in je v novem podjetju pomagal kot žlahtnitelj. Zadnjo sorto je ustvaril leta 1956. Po smrti leta 1959 je bil zamolčan in pozabljen. Noben od njegovih potomcev ni postal vrtnar. Pridelava vrtnic v Blatni je dokončno zamrla leta 1989.
Vrtnica je del razstave EU v vrtnicah.
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The ‘Probuzení’ Rose
Country of origin: Czechia (Czechoslovakia)
When it comes to roses, the first period of Czechoslovakia was marked by Jan Böhm. He was an nurseryman, breeder, and businessman. By 1950, he had created 120 varieties of roses, and named most of them after Czech notables.
His varieties include numerous mutants of existing roses, which he came across during his prolific growing of rose plants. This is also the story behind ‘Probuzení’, which originated on the climbing rose ‘New Dawn’. Abroad, Böhm’s varieties would often get renamed: in the West, ‘Probuzení’ thus turned into ‘Awakening’.
Böhm’s nursery was in the town of Blatná, about 50 km southwest of Prague. He first began with a two-hectare area and an annual production of 5,000 rose plants; by the beginning of 1930s, he expanded onto 30 hectares, and increased his sales to 200,000 rose plants annually. He sold them not only throughout Europe, but across the world.
He was a talented marketer and salesman. Blatná thus became widely known for flower exhibitions and mass guided tours of rose fields. He planned on building a museum of roses and a rose garden greenhouse, where the roses could flower throughout the whole year, but his plans for the town were cut short by war. During the war, he turned to growing berries, wheat, and potatoes.
Before he could re-establish his rose production after the Second World War, the Communist authorities nationalised his estate in 1950. The company was taken over by the town’s public utilities, and Böhm was sent into retirement, but assisted the new company as a cultivator. He created his last variety in 1956. After his death in 1959, he was written out of history and forgotten. None of his descendants continued in his steps. Rose production in Blatná came to a conclusive end in 1989.
The rose variety is a part of the exhibition The EU and Rose.
