otiv - Recent messages

Since it's now crocus blooming time, we also peeked a bit into Carinthia to the Poden valley, where white nuns' crocuses are blooming in abundance, and since we weren't only in the valley, we also turned to Vgrizeva pasture, which isn't far away.

With my friend Tadej we went today to the Vipava hills, where we did a circular route: Podnanos - Orehovica - St. Socerb - St. Ana - Vrabče - Orehovica - Podnanos.

Hello Miri!
Thank you for the beauties of the alpine meadow and the Pannonian gentian. With all the difficulties, I follow mountain flowers only through photographs anymore.
Good luck on your paths.

Hello Tadej! Judging by the pictures you might have been on Komn and there the soil is acidic for flowers. So there we find among others white kosmatinec and not alpine kosmtinec. Congratulations on the alpine zvončica which blooms a bit later than the kuštravi jeglič. This one attracted me to these places namely in the middle of May. Good luck

Hello @ ločanka! I really miss my dear Grmada and strongly hope to visit it again sometime. Picture No. 7 is Koreno above Horjul.

Yesterday 6.9.2023 I found Leki trekking poles at the end of Kriška planina - Krvavec. Poles are with Pr. Florjan at Kriška planina.

An ice axe is a mandatory part of mountain equipment in the high mountains, even though summer is approaching. We can always be surprised by a steep snowfield. Life is only one and cannot be compared to carrying an ice axe.

As @ ločanka already wrote, evergreen gladnica and it's one of the first spring flowers that blooms even in high mountains.

For such precious flowers like the lady's slipper their habitats are not publicly posted.

You two are great... I'll come after you in April, when the daffodils bloom. best

Branko, nice greetings from Kompotele...

@darinka4, in the picture there is no south alpine gentian. Probably slanozor.

Srebrna krvomočnica is your flower @silvo1952

Branko, I think you missed naming pictures 5 and 6 - @ mirank. On pictures it's round-leaved campion.

Ločanka, picture 9 is Pyrenean rockcress

Branko, your globeflower surely isn't alpine, because white fringes are visible under the flower.

Golden root

Our view reached all the way to Krn.