Northern Greece May 2008

[arisaema]

Fascinating pictures, thanks for posting! Looking at the leaves and buds on the unknown I'd say it's some sort of Potentilla?

[hadacekf]

Tony,

Saxifraga Falakro  =  Saxifraga sempervivum
Saxifraga Olympus = Saxifraga  scardica
Super plants und pics

[Tony Willis]

Franz

thanks for the id. I had no idea on the Falacko one,saxifrage identification is  not my thing but I was okay on the Olympus one as I looked it up in Wildflowers of Mt Olympus,just had a senior moment when naming the slides.

[Tony Willis]

 There was a down side to my trip which now I have sorted out my pictures I can show.This is a couple of pictures of a jankaea colony on a mossy rock ledge which is within sight of the cafe at Prioni on Mt Olympus. I first saw this in 1986 when I visited with Robert Rolfe.
A picture of this colony in flower is featured in the AGS bulletin Dec 2007 vol 4 page 442 taken on that trip. I have watched it develop since that time on several visits,the last being in October 2006. It is like an old friend and so imagine my dismay on this trip to discover two thirds of it had been collected by neatly cutting it off through the moss.

[Lesley Cox]

I'd say Potentilla for the Drama unknown. Certainly Rosaceae.

The Ramondas and Jankaeas are incredible. Thanks so much for these super pictures Tony.

[Hans A.]

Tony, thanks for this wonderful photos - especially I am glad you show Jankaeas in their habitat.
And I am also the opinion it should be a Potentilla. Sad to see the "before and after" picture of the Jankaea population.

[Anthony Darby]

I remember getting a small Ramonda nathalie from Tony Cairns a few years back. Seeing those above reminder me, so I went to the crevice where I'd planted it, hauled out some pink Lily of the Valley from  the bark path in front of it and low and behold it is flowering.

[Maggi Young]

Anthony, could you pull out another bit of pink lily of the valley and send it to me, please??
Dicentras have overgrown a lot of my white 'muguets des bois' and the pink is gone 

[Maggi Young]

I asked Harry Jans yesterday (Harry and Hannie were in Edinburgh, celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the SRGC) if he had seen the wonderful photos here on the Forum of these plants which he gorws so well in his Tufa Towers, etc.... he hadn't, yet! I was surprised to hear that he has never ( again.... as yet) visited Mount Olympus.....since he has a min Mt Olympus in his own garden, i suppose he may be forgiven for that oversight!!