Happy holiday flowers
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- Subject: Happy holiday flowers
- From: L*
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 07:48:22 -0000
I was looking through some of my old holiday albums
recently, and I came across this list. In 1995 we were
staying on a campsite in the Cevennes region of France. Our
campsite operator had organised for a botanist to be on
site, and he would take groups of holidaymakers out on
nature walks (this was for free). We did several with him,
but this was the most special day. The sun shone. We saw
most of these plants in quite a small hillside meadow, in an
area which is famous for orchids. Unfortunately, it was
in the days before I knew I was going to be interested in
gardening, so I didn't ask for the Latin names. I can work
out what family of plants some of them are from their names,
but others I haven't a clue. (And I know some of them won't
be perennials, but I bet some of them are) Thought you
might like to share them with me. Here it is:
Angel Hair grass (feather grass);
Alpine aster;
Lesser and Greater butterfly orchid;
Bloody cranesbill;
Pyramidal orchid;
Tussel hyacinth;
Broomrake;
Perennial flax;
St. Bernard's lily;
Cardine thistle;
Rock rose;
Bastard balm;
Fairy foxglove;
Military orchid;
Green winged orchid;
Rock soapwort;
Round-headed rampion;
Purple gromwell;
Sainfoin;
Creeping bellflower;
White helleborine orchid;
Mountain lettuce;
Burnt tip orchid;
Yellow woundwort.
Louise English, Surrey, England
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