The flora of Périgord in South-West France is abundant and diverse. In this blog you can find, in pictures, brief encounters with several hundreds of wild flowers and plants as they grow here in French Perigord. Following the seasons other species are added. An index of scientific and English names you find below on the right.

Corine Oosterlee is a botanist and photographer and she offers guided Botanical Walks and other activities around plants and vegetation in nature in Perigord. Do you want to know more? On www.baladebotanique.fr you can find more information. For Corine's photography see www.corineoosterlee.com. Both websites also in English.

Enjoy!




January 20, 2010

Winter color


Rather depressing, this rainy winter: grey and brown and black and grey again. And the sun does not show up at all ...


But look, brilliant green with gold, streaks of bluish grey with little pink specks. Mosses and lichens do their best to impart some colour to their surroundings.