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A Weekend Trip to Tayetos
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Muscari comosum – common in the wild and as a garden plant, the bulbs are edible and can be found in some greek vegetable markets. |
Malcomia maritima growing through a fern. Despite its name, this little annual grows well up into the mountains and will also self-seed in most gardens from an initial sowing of bought seed. |
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Phlomis fruticosa - although the flower is over, the handsome leaves of this phlomis keep it attractive as it goes to seed. |
Ochis tridentata – the distinctive mop head of the 'three-toothed' orchid make it one of the more easy to identify in this difficult genus. |
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A Bee Orchid, possibly Ophrys argolica. The little orphrys' are very common but always exciting to find. |
Another Bee Orchid, probably Ophrys apifera. |
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Rock campanula, once again hard to identify because there are six very similar species but Campanula andrewsii is found in the Peloponnese. In some places the bare rock was alive with the vibrant colour. |
Cerinthe retorta – a tall plant with dark purple flowers and spotted leaves makes a marvelous self-seeding annual for the garden and is to be seen making a show at Sparoza every spring. |
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Linum pubescens – by the side of the road at our picnic spot this linum stood out with its amazing metallic salmon pink. |
Cyclamen repandum subsp peloponnesiacum – endemic to the Peloponnese yet so common there that the soil used in the local nursery often contains baby corms. |
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Orchis – unidentified Orchis with a slim stem picked out by the sun-light. |
Under the shade of the road-side hedge, the brilliant red of this Linum pubescens made us stop in our tracks. |
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Scrophularia peregrina – the tiny dark flowers are a surprise among the nettle-like leaves. |
Hellenistic bridge dating from the time between the death of Alexander the great and the colonisation of greece by the Romans (323 BC to 70 AD). |
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An old stone path, or kalderimi, leads down the Agios Georgios gorge in the Taygetos mountains. |
Our photographer hugging a huge Platanus orientalis next to a spring. |
