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 24, 2015
Fly Orchid
Flies are everywhere!
The Fly Orchid (Ophrys insectifera) makes flowers that look indeed very much like a fly. This year this small orchid flowers in abundance. And no, the young grasshoppers in the picture are not flowers.
