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Dianthus superbus
Dianthus superbus
Today was already time to say goodbye to Wengen, the beautiful Swiss #Alps and its alpine flowers… but we’ll definitely come back!
22.06.2025 18:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Traunsteinera globosa
Dryas octopetala
Traunsteinera globosa (Globe Orchid) & Dryas octopetala (Mountain Avens) high up on a ridge overlooking Lake Brinz, day #7 of the #Switzerland tour.
21.06.2025 20:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Androsace obtusifolia
Primula farinosa
Pedicularis oederi
Silene acaulis
The 20th June, day #6 of the Swiss #Alps, tour was another great sunny day with lots of high alpine flowers.
20.06.2025 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Lady Slipper Orchids (Cypripedium calceolus) were very definitely the stars of day #5 of the #Switzerland tour
19.06.2025 20:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ranunculus glacialis
Corallorhiza trifida
Neottia cordata
Ranunculus glacialis, Coralroot Orchid (Corallorhiza trifida) & Lesser Twayblade (Neottia cordata): three of the botanical highlights of day #4 in Switzerland.
18.06.2025 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Anemone narcissiflora
Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia
Day #3 in the Bernese #Oberland was spent in the sun well above 2000 m asl, botanizing (steep!) alpine meadows & screes overlooked by shrinking but still gigantic glaciers. #Switzerland
17.06.2025 19:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dactylorhiza majalis (Broad-leaved Marsh Orchid) by the hundreds
Androsace helvetica
Pseudorchis albida (Small White Orchid)
Jungfrau & Silberhorn through the clouds yesterday evening
Carpets of orchids, rare alpine flowers and stunning landscapes yesterday on day #2 of the #Switzerland tour.
17.06.2025 06:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today our group arrived in the beautiful, car-free village of Wengen in the Bernese Oberland, day #1 of our new #Switzerland tour!
15.06.2025 20:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ophrys incubacea
Iris pseudopumila
Ophrys lunulata
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Today was the last day of the #Sicily tour, time to say goodbye to the orchids, wildflowers, birds… of this Mediterranean island and to the super excellent Feudo Bauly www.instagram.com/feudobauly/. We’ll sure be back next year!
10.04.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Iris rosenbachiana © Kurt Vickery
Iris rosenbachiana © Kurt Vickery
Kurt Vickery just sent 2 photos of the stunning Iris rosenbachiana, a Central Asia endemism, photographed during our current tour to #Tajikistan.
10.04.2025 20:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ophrys tenthredinifera © Richard Somers Cock
the most beautiful nettle in the world? Urtica pilulifera © Richard Somers Cock
Ophrys lunulata © Richard Somers Cock
Asphodeline lutea © Richard Somers Cock
Lots & lots of orchids (and much, much more!) in a super green & lush #Sicily this week, photos again by Richard Somers Cock.
09.04.2025 05:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mount Etna seen from Calabria
approaching the port of Messina
The 2nd April we crossed the Messina strait, leaving #Calabria to start the ongoing #Sicily tour.
08.04.2025 05:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are on a local tv in Calabria! https://youtu.be/dhfQU2KE-BU?si=09G6Pjcq9oiozd79 (5 minutes video mostly in Italian but with lots of orchids photos too...)
06.04.2025 05:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fritillaria tuntasia © Kurt Vickery
More photos in our website: https://www.greentours.co.uk/kythnos-euboea/
02.04.2025 20:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fritillaria euboeica © Kurt Vickery
Ophrys attica © Kurt Vickery
Ophrys mammosa © Kurt Vickery
Kurt has just sent in some lovely pictures of Spring on the Greek Islands of #Kythnos and #Euboea where our group just finished a one week tour. Particularly striking is the rare yellow form of the already rare Fritillaria tuntasia and some very unusual hybrid Ophrys….
02.04.2025 20:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
higher up in the ghost town… © Richard Somers Cocks
a flowery meadow somewhere in the Aspromonte NP © Richard Somers Cocks
the greep hills of Calabria in March 2025 © Richard Somers Cocks
Short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus) © Richard Somers Cocks
… and more! Again by Richard Somers Cocks (thanks Richard!)
02.04.2025 20:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dactylorhiza romana © Richard Somers Cocks
Eastern Bath White (Pontia edusa) © Richard Somers Cocks
Fritillaria messanensis © Richard Somers Cocks
exploring a medieval ghost town in the Cilento NP © Richard Somers Cocks
...more pictures by Richard!
02.04.2025 20:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Primula palinuri, Cilento © Stefano Doglio
, it doesn't happen often that you have to get off a boat for primroses © Richard Somers Cocks
Dactylorhiza romana (Aspromonte) © Richard Somers Cocks
Anacamptis papilionacea (Aspromonte) © Richard Somers Cocks
Today is the end of a very successful (but very, very wet) tour to Cilento & Calabria: first sailing to cliffs teeming with the unusual Primula palinuri and then up & down the mountains of Calabria led by the super expert Luigi Torino to the best orchids you can imagine 🙂
02.04.2025 19:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Giant orchids (Himantoglossum robertianum) in flower today in the #Gargano. Our “classic” tour to this orchids hotspot is now only a few weeks away & will start the 19th April: https://www.greentours.co.uk/tour/the-gargano/
24.03.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Common Crane (Grus grus)
Goodyera repens (Creeping lady's-tresses)
the Estonian flag on the ferry connecting Virtsu and Kuivastu
#Estonia
21.03.2025 18:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a windmill in the Lahemaa NP
Epipactis helleborine
Dactylorhiza fuchsii
a traditional thatched log cabin in the Matsalu NP
#Orchids, butterflies & dragonflies of the Baltic: to the enchanted #Estonia with Amanda Borrows & Stefano Doglio. From the 7th to the 17th July: https://www.greentours.co.uk/tour/estonia-2/ Photos taken by Stefano during the 2024 tour.
21.03.2025 18:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0