Flowers of Crete

Web pages to help learn about flowers on Crete:
Ten common flowers of Crete

Ten Cretan orchids

Ten rare plants of Crete

Flower books for Crete
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Scanner-photography,
April 2012;
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October 2012;
food foraging and discovery trips.
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WELCOME to the Flowers of Crete website

News
Flowers of Crete in Orchid Digest magazine. More in news here >.

Courses in 2012: (1) The Making of the Cretan Landscape, April 2012, field course at Knossos with Dr Oliver Rackham. (2) Theology and botany join forces: international conference, September 2012. More on both in news here >.

Botanical survey under way for Almyros wetlands. More in news here >.

Cavo Sidero saved. Read a letter from Environmental Archaeologist Jennifer Moody and landscape historian Oliver Rackham in news here >.

Reports that the Préveli palm-wood was 'destroyed' by fire in August 2010 are greatly exaggerated. So says Oliver Rackman: read the full article in news here >.

Ophrys bomblyiflora

Flower of the month - January
Ophrys bomblyiflora

Several specimens of this little ophrys, Ophrys bomblyiflora, were found in bloom on the meadows above Elounda at the beginning of this month.

The flowering season continues to the middle of April. Known as the Bumblebee ophrys, it grows in its hundreds on several of the orchid-rich sites in this area.

More flowers month by month here

FLOWERS OF CRETE
ORCHID CALENDAR 2012

Orders are being taken for the Flowers of Crete Calendar for 2012. This year we will again be featuring the very popular orchids of the island. We are very fortunate to be able to include stunning images from internationally recognised photographer and author Paul Harcourt Davies, together with those of Flowers of Crete President, Julia Jones.

calendar

The calendar costs 12 euros plus post and packing and can be sent out worldwide. Order yours in time for Christmas and the New Year. The calendar makes a lovely lasting gift for flower lovers and Cretophiles everywhere. Payment can be made by PayPal. UK cheque, or bank transfer in the UK and Greece. Contact Julia to order or for more information julia@flowersofcrete.info

Flowers of Crete T-shirt!

Good quality machine washable T-shirt printed with an original photograph of the endemic Tulipa cretica - the Cretan tulip.

In white, sizes S, M, L, XL.
S & M 10.00 euros
L & XL 12.00 euros
plus post and packing.

Details of Flowers of Crete on back.

To order contact
julia@flowersofcrete.info

Saving the Cretan Palm
Some of the small Phoenix theophrastii palms sent from The Winter Gardens in Sunderland, grown from seed collected some years ago at Vai, have now been planted at the Bayview Development on the south coast at Magriakalos.

Other palms have been planted in private gardens in the east of the island and these are being carefully monitored for evidence of the red palm weevil. We have found specimens of this destructive insect in the square in Elounda. It is a threat to the endemic Cretan Palm forests at Vai and Préveli and every effort needs to be taken to try to stop its progress. More here.

Aims of Flowers of Crete
Please click here to read the aims of Flowers of Crete.

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