Peloponnesos -september 2011

[Anthony Darby]

These pictures bring back memories of a short holiday to Corfu in October 1992.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Wonderful set of photos - enjoyed them a lot!
Gerd

Thank you Gerd , make some preparations for the plot of this story ...  
I suppose that the Viola graeca is one of your favorites ?

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris beautiful pictures,lovely to see. A friend of mine went in September arriving on the 22nd some years ago and saw crocus by the thousands. I went the following year with his notes to all the same sites and found none. Another year on a later visit to the same sites in early October I too saw them in thousands. It all seems to depend on the timing of the rains.

Thank you Tony . I always like to travel in Greece ! So many beautiful bulbs,orchids and many other plants.You are right , it is hard to say when the autumnbulbs go to flower ...Altough I think that September is in most years an exception for flowering Crocus ?
But the story is not at the end , we have to go to Mount Menalo . Who knows ....
First the last pictures from the Mount Menalo area ...Again some Coclchicum bivonae. This time a more typical form to me. With huge flowers on huge flowerstems ...
Up to Mount Menalo now...

[krisderaeymaeker]

These pictures bring back memories of a short holiday to Corfu in October 1992.

That is some time ago Anthony . Did you see many Sternbergia 's ?

On Mount Menalo we did find some fine populations of Sternbergia sicula.

[krisderaeymaeker]

And some more yellow to brighten up this cold winterday ....

[Kees Jan]

Nice pictures. Along the road to Menalo I found a location wher S. sicula and S. colchiciflora flowered side by side. Quite unusual, normally colchiciflora grows at higher altitude than sicula...

[krisderaeymaeker]

Nice pitures. Along the road to Menalo I found a location wher S. sicula and S. colchiciflora flowered side by side. Quite unusual, normally colchiciflora grows at higher altitude than sicula...

Thanks Kees Jan , this pictures are also taken on a place where they both grow together ! Aroud 950m height .
But at this spot the sicula grows in full sun while the colchiciflora grows beneath some pines in a rather shady place.
Maybe we visit the same place ?

[Anthony Darby]

These pictures bring back memories of a short holiday to Corfu in October 1992.

That is some time ago Anthony . Did you see many Sternbergia 's ?

Yes Kris, on our way up Mount Pantokrator behind a church, and also just below the summit. I also found lots of Cyclamen hederifolium, some even growing through the tarmac at the edge of the road near Kassiopi. It may have been a long time ago, but I'm still wearing the leather belt embossed with Levi 501 I bought then.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Yes Kris, on our way up Mount Pantokrator behind a church, and also just below the summit. I also found lots of Cyclamen hederifolium, some even growing through the tarmac at the edge of the road near Kassiopi. It may have been a long time ago, but I'm still wearing the leather belt embossed with Levi 501 I bought then.

Anthony ,we did visit Corfu in 1996 but in the wrong season ...As I can read here it is interesting to go back sometimes ...
Altough we have something in common..... , a collection of leather belts from Greece     

[krisderaeymaeker]

Around the plateau near the summit on Mount Menalo we find this flowering Digitalis ferruginea .

[krisderaeymaeker]

Mount Menalo has also the best populations of Colchicum graecum on his account ...

[krisderaeymaeker]

Mount Menalo has also the best populations of Colchicum graecum on his account ...

Same remark for Sternbergia colchiciflora ...

[Anthony Darby]

I have rarely flowered this species. Perhaps if I get some in NZ?

[krisderaeymaeker]

I have rarely flowered this species. Perhaps if I get some in NZ?

Have the same problem here in Belgium Anthony ....Hope you get  more succes down under ...Please let us know.  

[krisderaeymaeker]

Any idea what's happening here ?