A wild Tulip.....
Thanks to Susan of Loire Valley Nature for taking us to see these!!
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Susan&Simon from Days on the Claise have another blog, Loire Valley Nature, which is "designed to be used as an English language natural history web resource for lowland central France."
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They also run Loire Valley Time Travel and can arrange one or two day tours with a knowledgeable guide. They have a blog linked to that site at Loire Valley Time Travel
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They also run Loire Valley Time Travel and can arrange one or two day tours with a knowledgeable guide. They have a blog linked to that site at Loire Valley Time Travel
Please note:
The early listings were only a few observations with an entry and usually no record of numbers!
They had been taken directly from our 'birders notebook'
Where there are further details from the book we keep at the house, they will be added later.
The weather in Tours at the moment:
They had been taken directly from our 'birders notebook'
Where there are further details from the book we keep at the house, they will be added later.
The weather in Tours at the moment:
5 comments:
It was my pleasure. I've written a post about them too, to be published next week. Let's raise a glass to wildlife and the conservation of wild habitats :-)
Beautiful x
Susan... just the one glass?
It would have to be Gaudrelle, naturally!!
We have lots of anemones, pulmonaria, bluebells and strawberry flowers at the moment but I have never seen a wild tulip. Beautiful. Amelia
Amelia, apparently in this region, they exist at just a few sites...
almost all of them now vineyards.
The shape of the stem reminded me of the Fritillaries....
but instead of hanging down, they open sideways....
rather than UPWARD like a "domesticated" tulip...
or even the species tulips of Crete, Cyprus and southern Turkey...
Susan is doing a full blog post about them this week or next..
so I won't steal her thunder.
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