Some lovely Spring wild flowers in Athens...

12 Apr '07 10:26 pm

Hello, dear friends! I am so glad to be back! Everything is lovely, tender, and affectionate here in our Forum (!), and I wish to comment in detailed order... But until suitcases are back to the attic and everything is back to order in the house , I found a few minutes to share with you some of the wild flowers I met during my stay in Athens. I guess, these bloomers are very common around the Mediterranean Sea at this time of the year. I know for sure they exist the same, at least in Southern Italy and France. I feel deeply ashamed, I do not know their names, either in Greek or Latin, apart from the adorable red Poppy and lovely tall and big, yellow Daisy, of course...

13 Apr '07 1:38 am

We all missed you so much and are so happy to have you back. It sounds like you had a wonderful visit to Athens and the photographs of local wildflowers are beautiful even without names. Some of them bear a resemblance to wildflowers found here in the states, but that one in photo number 3 is like nothing I have ever seen before. So unusual and lovely.

Now, get those bags unpacked and stowed and get out to your garden. I'll bet there is so much new to record since you saw it last.

13 Apr '07 6:29 am

Welcome home ,Liza,
These wild flowers have a simple beauty that warms the heart .
Do you know that once a year on ANZAC Day ,(April 25th),these same red poppies are worn in NZ and Australia in grateful memory of our soldiers who lost their lives in Europe .It is lovely to see one in its natural setting.
Dixie.

13 Apr '07 9:56 am

Yes, it is great to feel I'm back... Reading the most of the posts, I just felt this place is a sort of gardening sharing AND heart re-warming..Cause the World is SO cruel and violent out there... For the gardeners like myself, not so fond of TV, violent films, and travelling , it is rather hard leaving my...protective cocoon...Even if there , where I go, I have -- traditionally -"good" time (meeting friends, relatives, the bright blue sea, the sun..)...

Athens is two months ahead in the seasons... There, it is the end of Spring... The Roses have started blooming..Here, the tall tulips just opened last week and still do...The Japanese Cherry Trees and some Lilacs just started blooming here...It is so absurd..

17 Apr '07 11:22 am

Your photos are beautiful as always Liza.
Number 3 particularly so, and I'm now using it as my 'wallpaper'. It looks stunning. Smile

17 Apr '07 2:09 pm

I love the purples and the yellows. These look like flowers that grow on some of the sand dunes on beaches up north in New Zealand. I wonder - did we used to call them ice plants? help, Dixie! You'll know. Two of the loveliest colours for a daisy shaped flower, I reckon!

17 Apr '07 6:53 pm

Hi, Liza, and welcome home! It sounds like you had a wonderful trip with sunshine and good times! I loved all your pictures, especially the one of the tall, white panicle that looks, to me, somewhat like some sort of terrestrial orchid, like the ones that grow wild here.

All the best!

gordonf

17 Apr '07 7:51 pm

I am sorry, I did not reply earlier! But I just saw your replies!

Well, I, too love the flowers you all love, Faith and Anna, and Gordon and Moosey! Thank you, my good Dixie!

And, yes, Mary, I deeply fell in love with these purple and yellows!! The bees were madly in love with them!! Imagine, I was wearing a long summer dress that day, and I started lying in different poses on the beach by them -- luckily I was alone during this time...-- in order to take lots of pictures of them!! I don't remember myself taking more close-ups/macros with flowers and bees than that special day...In fact, I prefer the whole close-up flower photos than the artistic macros, but butterflies and bees are SO VERY special on the blooms, no?? So! "Ice Plants" !! I'm going to my plant books right away!

21 Apr '07 5:27 am

Dear Liza
Somehow I missed this post and saw 'only' your wildflowers on the 'garden tours' forum. What lovely pictures! And what a clear picture I had of our Liza in a long summer dress crawling around getting close-ups. The beauty of the wild flowers, and the unexpectedness with which one sometimes finds them, and the amazing ways they can group themselves is so infinitely more gracious than anything we can throw together in our gardens...

My favourite is the beautifully marked ble flower in no.2

Thanks

Jack

22 Apr '07 6:31 am

My favourite would be #6 ... or 10 ... oh, but look at 12 and 13! Dancing

Liza, your photography just seems to get better and better! and your subjects always look like they want to be photographed Wink

Don't ever lose your camera! It always brightens up our day Very Happy

Some lovely Spring wild flowers in Athens...

Some lovely Spring wild flowers in Athens...

Welcome home Liza!!!!

Welcome home

Thank you!

Hi, Liza!

Thank you all, so much!!

Caught up at last!