Autumnal reflections in Pruhonice Park © Ricky Yates
I have twice previously written and posted about Pruhonice Park, a magnificent landscaped park that lies just south-east of the city of Prague. Sybille and I first visited Pruhonice Park in the summer of 2012 about which you can read and see numerous photographs here. Then in May this year, we re-visited in order to see the amazing display of flowering rhododendrons for which the park is particularly famous.
Pruhonice Zamek reflected in the adjoining lake © Ricky Yates
Last Monday, on my regular day-off, we made our third visit in order to see Pruhonice Park in Autumn and were not disappointed. Once more, there were remarkably few visitors and we were able to thoroughly enjoy the wonderful Autumn colours on display. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, so this post will be more pictures than words.
During our visit, I took about seventy photographs and I’ve had great difficulty choosing a small number of them, with which to illustrate this post. But I hope those that follow, will give some impression of the beauty of Pruhonice Park in the Autumn.
More Autumnal reflections at Pruhonice Park © Ricky Yates
Uprooted tree in Pruhonice Park © Ricky Yates
I had not realised until I checked the park website, that it too, had suffered from the floods of early June 2013. However, as we explored the park last Monday, we saw several examples such as the one in this photograph, of trees which had been completely uprooted and fallen sideways, presumably because of floodwaters washing away the soil around their roots.
Idyllic Autumnal view in Pruhonice Park © Ricky Yates
 Pathway with Autumnal colours © Ricky Yates |
 More Autumn colours © Ricky Yates |
Additional colour was also provided by this display of Michaelmas daisies.
Michaelmas daisies © Ricky Yates
Beautiful photos! Hope to see Prague in the fall someday! I’m always there in March or August.
Hi Stephen – Prague is beautiful at almost any time of the year but in Autumn/the Fall, its numerous parks are particularly beautiful with nearly all the trees changing colour.
Lovely photos Ricky.
I must take my family there one day.
Best wishes
Mike
Thanks for the compliment Mike. You certainly should take your family there one day – I’m sure they would enjoy it.
Gorgeous photos, Ricky, and very nostalgic for me, as both my visits to Prague were in October. Here there is still much less colour than usual for the time of the year, probably because we have yet to have even a touch of frost. Still, it will come….
We have every shade of Autumn colour at present Perpetua, together with plenty of falling leaves. And after a miserable & rather cold September, we are now having Indian Summer weather, very much as you had for a good part of the time you were last in Prague, two years ago.