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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #330 on: February 25, 2010, 08:32:31 AM »
Luit, I'm so pleased you have the first signs of Spring in your garden it is a wonderful moment to suddenly 'smell' it in the air  :)

Just after I completed my last Alpine walk of the old season I went out into my alpine patch and saw the bulbs were coming up too  ;D  Incredibly exciting to see what transpires as I planted a lot of new bulbs of all sorts in different areas last year.

Is your Hamamellis a special one?  I just love them for their early scented flowers and magnificent Autumn leaf colouring
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #331 on: February 27, 2010, 05:38:59 AM »
thanks for the new installment :)
the switches from misty mystery to blinding clarity are familiar this year!
great to see the wildlife-the ibex indeed looks very sure of himself--though with those horns, why not?

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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #332 on: February 27, 2010, 08:02:35 AM »
Cohan, thanks for popping by....I often think of you in your winter scene and the misty pictures you took recently looked even more disorientating than the cloudy mists here. I do hope you get some sun soon as a pick-me-up for you and your cacti  :D



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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #333 on: February 27, 2010, 08:29:32 AM »
thanks, robin--we have had even more frosty days, but quite a few of sun, too, and my plants are happily baking on their windowsills!

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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #334 on: February 27, 2010, 10:37:14 AM »
Robin,
the Hamamelis I mentioned is H. x intermedia Pallida, which is in my opinion one of the best yellows.
With autumn leaf coloring we have most years some problems caused by the winds, as we are near the coast and there is not so much shelter around.
Bulb fields are rather open  ;D ;D
Luit van Delft, right in the heart of the beautiful flowerbulb district, Noordwijkerhout, Holland.

Sadly Luit died on 14th October 2016 - happily we can still enjoy his posts to the Forum

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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #335 on: April 30, 2010, 08:07:34 AM »
The Alpine mountain wakes from hibernation like and old bear weary from the winter months of snow.  The sun is warm now but the wind has a chill that checks buds on the trees, waiting for the Spring.
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #336 on: April 30, 2010, 08:12:05 AM »
Lovely shots, Robin, except for the last one which reminds me that the garden here is covered with ash seedlings, literally thousands, and also that the garden is presently littered with the spent flowers. There is a line of mature ash trees along one boundary of the garden.

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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #337 on: April 30, 2010, 08:18:38 AM »
Hi Paddy, more to come but not ash seedlings - I guess there is fierce competition here in the Alps amongst trees competing for space whereas with you it's like a 5 star hotel with space galore and full service  ;D
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #338 on: April 30, 2010, 08:25:17 AM »
At the head of the mountain last fallen snow still caps the peaks but the Spring snowmelt has begun; a lifeblood of crystal clear pure water that pours down the body of the mountainside like arteries in full flow reviving the will to live
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #339 on: April 30, 2010, 08:28:34 AM »
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #340 on: April 30, 2010, 08:32:30 AM »
Gorges du Dailley brimming with snowmelt water thunders down the mountain....

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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #341 on: April 30, 2010, 08:35:12 AM »
A network of watery veins forms a web beneath the ground and feeds into the meadows where wild primroses, cowslips and violets bring the first Spring colour .
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #342 on: April 30, 2010, 08:37:07 AM »
Through the rocks it gushes past Oxalis acetosella, just in flower, and Caltha palustris lining up to enjoy the wet; wherever it drips and seeps mosses and ferns and ground cover plants in the subalpine forest soak up capillary threads of moisture like sponges and quench their thirst.
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #343 on: April 30, 2010, 08:38:37 AM »
Through last years sloughed of litter new growth emerges like scattered jewels – Crocus vernus and Hepatica nobilis, Viola silvatica and, on a grassy bank, Dactylorhiza sambucina
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #344 on: April 30, 2010, 08:40:50 AM »
From every damp spot or crevice alpine flowers colour the scene: Primula hirsuta, pink, Potentilla crantzii, yellow, Myosotis alpestris, blue......
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