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Which flower is this?

velkavrh24. 04. 2016 09:53:14

Sadly at 2,000m nothing grows yet - on Saturday I was on Monte Re-Kraljevska špica - that's a steep mountain above Rablje in Italy. After holidays Slavnik awaits. Up there are lots of flowers as I know. Hope the weather holds. For consolation some from our little meadow, slope, our mini rockery.

Common primroses already unfolding flowers.

Common deadnettle blooming - annoying garden weed hard to eradicate.

This is edelweiss from Vremščica in my rock garden - it blooms profusely.

This cinquefoil is also from Vremščica - it's beautiful.

This double-flowered cultivated globeflower is wonderful - it spreads wonderfully.

My flower garden features many species of hostas or funkias.

This is small-leaved spurge - a gifted seedling.

We also have lots of varieties of different bearded irises - this is mini. I bought them from my sister and brother - Golob.

We also have lots of other spring cushion perennials. This is one of ten varieties of needle phlox.

otiv24. 04. 2016 10:21:08

Branko, that's why we rather go lower, where there's currently quite a large selection of flowers. smile

You've nicely pictured the work of your diligent hands. We wish you much more joy at home and in the mountains.

Spring gentian, it could also be Triestine, just small differences that my eye doesn't notice

Early purple orchid photographed in the morning dew

darinka424. 04. 2016 10:30:24

What are these two types of mleček that are flowering now?

otiv24. 04. 2016 10:33:07

Darinka4, that's the resasti mleček.

darinka424. 04. 2016 10:39:24

Aha, thanks, lately I've noticed there are more and more of them around here. smile

velkavrh24. 04. 2016 11:51:37

Darinka4 - it's cypress spurge - also posted in my today's post under no. 5.

darinka424. 04. 2016 13:11:22

Yes really, I checked. Thanks Velkavrh probably they brought it here with soil when making new vineyards, because there used to be none. nasmeh

What do you call this flower that's blooming now. We call it kukavca.

Majstro24. 04. 2016 13:18:14

@darinka4, if I'm not mistaken, this is the common cuckoo.
@otiv, thanks for the info about daphne. I'll have to hurry then if I want to photograph it.

darinka424. 04. 2016 13:35:28

I'm wondering why it's called cuckoo exactly? mežikanje

Apolonija24. 04. 2016 15:10:24

Majstro, you're not mistaken.

darinka4, interesting question. How cuckoos (cuckoo family) got their name, I haven't come across it anywhere yet. Guessing a bit myself. Cuckoo birds lay their eggs in other nests to hatch and then the chicks get fed. Cuckoo orchid seeds have no nutrient reserves and the plantlet couldn't grow at all if it didn't "attach" to a fungus that nourishes it....Maybe there's something in this similarity. Or does someone know more? nasmeh

zlatica24. 04. 2016 15:20:14

Branko and Otiv, you've nicely served us flowers. Otiv, your unknown under 2 is kranjska bunika. lp

otiv24. 04. 2016 15:34:09

Zlatica, thanks. nasmeh

darinka424. 04. 2016 16:54:29

I also thought there's something connected to the cuckoo bird that calls just these days when this flower blooms. That's why I wondered if it maybe has another name. Probably this comparison with the slipped-in cuckoo egg holds. mežikanje

Apolonija24. 04. 2016 18:03:15

Surely they have various local names too, botanically the family Orchidaceae (Latin) is called kukavičevke, individual genus is cuckoo or orchid. There are many genera, about 90 in Slovenia, which then have other different generic names (for example: murka, kukavičnik, vimenjak, wolf's tongue, pilovec, naglavka, močvirnica, cat's ear, cepetuljka.....) and species names.