SW Turkey in November

[Tony Willis]

I have just got back from a couple of weeks in SW Turkey. The weather was mixed from freezing rain and snow with storm force winds to brilliant sunshine.

I had a bit of a detour at the start to pop up to near Bursa to try and find Cyclamen intaminatum which is the only Turkish cyclamen I had not yet seen. Not the best trip with awful weather but was successful in finding a few in flower. I then moved back to the South coast and went to look at Crocus nerimaniae growing with Cyclamen mirabile at the Gejik dam. There were masses in flower but mainly closed due to the cold.

 I then had a day down the Bozburum peninsular to look at  Cyclamen hederifolium and Narcissus miniatus (Gerd has decided this is what they are) Last year there were lots in flower but this year only a few and most of those had been turned into goats cheese.

I then moved to Kas and on the way found Crocus assumaniae and also a few gone over Crocus mathewii with only this poor specimen left in flower.

[Tony Willis]

At Kas I saw the Narcissus tazetta  and have shown a picture of its habitat. From there I visited the site at Xanthos which was covered with Sternbergia lutea in hundreds.

Leaving Kas I moved further west and stayed  near Kumluca seeing on the way both Cyclamen graecum and a Colchicum sp. and lots of Scilla autumnalis.

[art600]

Tony
You are quick off the mark - have only just downloaded my shots from the camera (could not find lead  )  Now to resize etc.

Love the nerimaniae  

[Tony Willis]

Whilst there I went to see the Galanthus peshmenii and Crocus wattiorum which was one I had not seen before. The weather was kind and they looked wonderful.

The last day was spent at Side from where I went upto near Akseki to see Cyclamen cilicicum and there found my last new plant Biarum pyrami which was very impressive.

Then it was time to come home.

[Tony Willis]

Tony
You are quick off the mark - have only just downloaded my shots from the camera (could not find lead  )  Now to resize etc.

Love the nerimaniae  

Arthur its the benefits of youth,all that extra energy!

[Gerdk]

The last day was spent at Side from where I went upto near Akseki to see Cyclamen cilicicum and there found my last new plant Biarum pyrami which was very impressive.

Tony, the Biarum is very impressive indeed - but your well photographed pics of plants and sites are also superb! Must have been a wonderful journey!

Gerd

[Paddy Tobin]

Many thanks, Tony. A great set of photographs. Must have been a great visit despite the occasional bad weather.

Please continue - and I look forward to Arthur's contributions.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Tony
You are quick off the mark - have only just downloaded my shots from the camera (could not find lead  )  Now to resize etc.

Love the nerimaniae  

Arthur its the benefits of youth,all that extra energy!

So, you've got someone in to help you ,then??!! 

[David Nicholson]

Take the bikini Tony?

[Tony Willis]

Take the bikini Tony?

David I always feel so self conscious in it now a days,I expect you feel the same in yours.

My best moment has been in Kas when two young Japanese girls asked for my autograph thinking I was Mr Bean.

I can say most days I had on a pullover and wished I had my gloves with me. It was a quite unusual autumn. On previous visits I have sat in shirtsleeves drinking a beer almost to hot to move.

[ashley]

Wonderful pictures Tony; thanks for sharing them.

[I.S.]

  Tony wonderfull pictures! I hope you enjoyed your trip.
  If I am not wrong your C. asumaniae Janis has called C. pallasii subsp. pallasii ! Because this part of Antalya there is not C. asumaniae !

[cohan]

looks like a wonderful trip--so many gorgeous plants--the first narcissus is lovely--very unnarcissusesque, which i like!
galanthus in leaves and cyclamen in rocks are beautiful shots..
i have to admit though, the highlight so far may have been the Mr. Bean autograph request...lol

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful photographs Tony !
Looks like you had a great trip... and in good company too.. 

Thanks for showing and I hope to see more from Art !

[Maggi Young]

Crikey! That was a shock.... I thought for a moment that there was, in the wake of talk of bikinis...a wish to see more OF Art, but I now realise that it reads " see more FROM art" Phew!  (No offence, Art!!)