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!




May 28, 2010

Field Poppy


The seeds of Field Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) need a loose soil to germinate. That's why they grow in cereal fields plowed last winter or early in spring.



The seeds can lay dormant for years in the soil, to explode into flower when circumstances are favorable.


May 5, 2010

Purple Orchid


All Purple Orchid (Orchis purpurea) flowers resemble puppets with dark red hats and all have reddish specks on white, but ...


...some prefer ample dresses,



















 ...or wide pants with an ethnic pattern,


















...while others prefer long, tapering sleeves,


















...or hairy purple polkadots.

















 Who's trying to tell you plants are not trendy?




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