Switzerland 2008

[David Nicholson]

Great sets of pictures folks, I have thoroughly enjoyed them, thank you.

[art600]

Thomas and Tony

Have thoroughly enjoyed your postings.  It is 50 years since I visited the area as a schoolboy - I think a return trip is called for.

[ranunculus]

Aren't all COWS ladies?
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Oh yes!!!     Doh!

Another load of bull from Whitworth

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks Tony for the ID's and everybody for the compliments.
Will post some more photos later.

Arthur 50 years are a long time, I can't remember what I did 50 years ago 

[David Nicholson]

I have trouble remembering what I did 50 minutes ago!

[Lvandelft]

Thank you all for those beautiful pictures of Switzerland.
I have been often in Switzerland, bur rarely had the time to walk in the
mountains. But I visited once Schynige Platte, under the guidance of
the man who was the initiator of this garden. He was the Director of
the Gardening Highschool at Oeschberg. So was very happy with the pictures from there.

I know still exactly what I was doing 50 years ago:
I worked in a Swiss perennial nursery.

[tonyg]

Here is my final offering for this trip.  I am returning to Kleine Scheidegg by the last train of the day.  As the sun dips in the west the evening light shows off some of the unsung heroes of the alpine pastures. 

Phyteuma hemisphericum
Thymus sp
Rhinanthus sp
Potentilla sp
Polygonum sp
Dactylorhiza

[tonyg]

And after a good meal as dusk falls the last rays of the sun illuminate the peaks in an unforgettable (the pics do not do it justice) sunset.

[David Nicholson]

What a cracking way to end Tony, fabulous pictures.

[Lesley Cox]

Amazing pictures - they just get better and better. Love your last batch Tony. Plants, people, scenery, all are very special.

Thomas - you offered me seeds of Crocus albiflorus. I hope they didn't come from THAT place! There's no doubt the pair of you gents make an excellent team in the mountains. Some more from you soon I hope Thomas.

[Thomas Huber]

What a pity, I've missed the wonderful sunset, Tony! 

One of my favourite routes for driving by car is the glacier trip: Grimsel-, Furka- and Sustenpass:

029 - Phyteuma ?
049 - Breakfast on top of Grimsel
054 - Leucanthemopsis alpina
066 - View down the Grimselpass to the Furka-pass

On our way to the top of Furka we found this wonderful meadow:
084 - Campanula thyrsoides
086 - Paradisea lileastrum
089 - Pulsatilla seedheads
092 - Lilium martagon
087 - Pedicularis foliosa

[Maggi Young]

Lovely pedicularis in the last pic, Hubi.  Why the crutches with the children? Who has a bad leg??

[Thomas Huber]

Maggi, Chris was playing football and got hurt. We've been in hospital and they told us it can last at least 3 weeks.
But after 3 days everything was over 

101 - View to the Rhone-glacier from Hotel Bellevue half way up the Furka-pass
116 - view back to Grimsel-pass
131 - Celine searching for Crocus seeds (but there were none :-(
135 - Lupinias on Furka-pass
000+001 - Campanula thyrsoides, I found it only once as a single plant, together with Tony
               on top of the Brienzer Rothorn, but here they grew just like a weed - a beautiful weed  
144 - Saxifrage aizoides
137 - Epilobium fleischeri
140 - Teatime in this wonderful valley below the Susten-pass.

[SueG]

These have been brilliant pictures, thanks very much everyone
Sue

[Maggi Young]

I am very pleased to hear that Chris had no lasting damage!  It seems to me that Celine is growing tall very fast ... she is catching her brother now, isn't she?  Soon they will both be as tall as Tanja 

Thanks for taking us on holiday, too, Guys!