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Finally I managed to blow the dust off the camera. This is how it was yesterday at Rabelj Lake. My first trip after a long time, lots of flowers, most unfortunately too big for macro lens.

Otiv and Velkavrh, wonderful little flowers.

Apolonija, thanks. I didn't even think of rosehip. I couldn't get close because it was behind a fence, over a precipice, from afar it didn't look like a bush at all.

With bellflowers I'm very behind. This confirms the fact that I only recently learned right here that now "in" are bellflowers and no longer bell-flowers. For now I know only two kinds, those with narrow "bells" and those with balloons.

I'm used to shorter cowslips. This one was quite tall, the picture shows only one part of it. The picture is also twisted because it was lying down. That it's Montpellier pink I could actually have thought of myself. It was growing near French flax. Trieste one nowhere, although Trieste is so close.

Again a little late praises for all posted flowers.

Apolonija, the question is too hard for me, and from Otiv obviously I can't guess either.

My pics this time from Vremščica (Čemparjev vrh), Risnik near Divača and Škocjan Caves. To rhyme too: I don't know names of all flowers.

SunBurned, your picture shows a grass named feathery feathergrass.

Velkavrh and Otiv, I see you've enjoyed yourselves again. You've photographed lots of beautiful little flowers.

Apolonija, already corrected, thanks. Peonies are beautiful, slippers too. And all that at home, I have to roam around to see something nice.

Still a question about mahonia. Isn't that the same as barberry?

Lilies below Vremščica haven't bloomed yet, so I headed to Risnik near Divača. There, dozens of autumn crocuses are currently blooming, and I managed to find one blooming lily too.

A bit late, praise for all your flowers. During the week I skimmed them quickly, so today I had quite some work to check them in detail. Again some I haven't seen before, and of course those I didn't know the names of.

Today I went hunting for lilies myself. Found some but only one blooming. Will upload a picture later, need to find names for some photographed flowers first.

Babim, I couldn't give you any smart advice, because I prefer to photograph flowers rather than pick them.

@Apolonija:
You were right, on my pictures posted 13.5.2014 it's really autumn ragwort. I went to check and it took me quite some time to find it again. And I was sure I knew exactly where it grew. But because of that I found some more interesting flowers, of course again some unknown ones.

Velkavrh, I see you had a very successful day. They don't say in vain that Črna prst is the botanical garden of the Julian Alps. I myself haven't seen some flowers from your pictures in nature yet, and I haven't even heard of alpine bartsia.

Velkavrh, that spurge of yours is nice. I really like spurges, it's really nice to see their patches under Vremščica. Some time ago I photographed spurge near Škocjan Caves, and an older local woman wondered why I'm photographing that weed.

Shining spurge grows at Lake Cerknica, where I've been going for eternity. I'll probably miss the summer bellflowers again, they say they're already departing.

A couple of spurge pictures, maybe they'll brighten up someone's boring day.

Apolonija, thanks. I also thought of the autumn crocus myself from the leaves, and the fruit reminded me a bit of closed flowers. But it seemed impossible to me that the "final product" would be like in foxy's picture. While photographing the broomrapes, something was pleasantly smelling all the time, I'd love to check if they were growing nearby, because I don't remember anymore.

On the same meadow as the broomrape I found another interesting flower. I tried to figure out its name myself, but gave up. Maybe it would work if the flower was more open (or if Google offered some result for a flower with ear-like spikes).

Yesterday under Vremščica I noticed broomrape for the first time, a parasite without its own chlorophyll.