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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Diane Clement on August 05, 2008, 09:54:20 PM
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I better start a new thread here, rather than piggy back onto Switzerland.
We spent a week in Ischgl, in the Silvretta region of Austria which is almost as far south and west as you can get before you hit the Swiss border.
The weather was cold at the beginning of the week, with fresh snow falling on land above about 2600m
Intrepid travellers at the Austria-Swiss border (husband Michael and sister Carol)
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There were orchids in abundance
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And the gentians weren't bad either
... more later when I have edited some more pictures
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Super start, Diane... thanks.
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Lovely pictures Diane.
Please post more...
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We all echo Armin, Diane ... we are ready for more ... please....
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Diane,
Keep the photographs coming, please. Very promising start, would love to see more.
Paddy
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Indeed, we are all waiting expectantly for more photos from Diane, but I understand the lady is busy with houseguests and housepainters and seedlists.....none of which is conducive to leisure time for posting on the forum... we must be patient, my friends :-*
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And the gentians weren't bad either
Good Lord!
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Indeed, we are all waiting expectantly for more photos from Diane, but I understand the lady is busy with houseguests and housepainters and seedlists.....none of which is conducive to leisure time for posting on the forum... we must be patient, my friends :-*
And potting up hundreds of pots of bulbs and cyclamen, and putting up a new Access frame ... :'(
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Well, here's a start
We stayed at Ischgl in the Silvretta region, a small resort, but well served with local buses and cablecars. Clearly much more of a winter resort than a summer one, many of the walks were on ski runs or tracks through ski areas. The snow was still lying at the top (third week in July) and it was very cold at the beginning of the week, although it got gradually better as the week progressed.
High up we found Lloydia serotina, sorry for scruffy picture, but I was so excited to find it and it was the only plant.
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A few views from above Ischgl, some erosion here due to skiing, but it didn't spoil the wealth of flora
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The orchids were growing in profusion, at the beginning of this thread, I showed a field of them. Mainly Dactylorhiza ?fuchsii in wetter areas and Gymnadenia conopsea in slighly drier areas, although sometimes they were together
Dactylorhiza sp
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Gymnadenia conopsea could be easily identified by the fantastic scent
I think the second picture is an beautiful albino of the same species, can anyone confirm?
Gymnadenia conopsea
Gymnadenia conopsea white form
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Keeping on the orchid theme
Nigritella nigra
Pseudorchis albida
Platanthera bifolia
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Still more orchids
Traunsteinera globosa
Coeloglossum viride
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Lovely photos Diane ... looking forward to more.
Your white Gymnadenia looks right ... have seen a small colony in Val Gardena (Italy) this July.
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Great Diane - keep em coming!!
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Diane,
What beautiful plants, great shots.
Paddy
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The gentians seemed in particularly good shape
Gentiana nivalis
Gentiana verna or bavarica G verna confirmed by Franz
Gentiana acaulis
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My word! Who couldn't love a gentian? Those blues! 8)
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And a rhodo for you Maggi
Rhododendron ferrugineum
And Loiseleuria procumbens in fruit
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Good to see the Loiseleuria with those fine seed pods, Diane.... handsome, aren't they? Never seen 'em so plump.
Thanks for the rhodos, by the way! I must say my rhodo fixation has been satisfied very well by the posts from these year's assorted summer trips to the mountains by you folks! Not to mention the big Rhododendron arboreum ssp campbellii in Otto's snowy Dandenong garden!
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A few random bits and pieces
Primula farinosa
Campanula barbata
Lilium martagon
Gentianella germanica
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Off for an early night, to dream of rhodo covered hilsides and drifts of gymnadenia conopsea, scenting the air!
Diane, are you "back to school" yet, or is it just Scottish schools?
My little neighbour starts tomorrow at primary.... as does Jean Wyllie's grandaughter, Lottie...... :D
Happy days, eh? :D
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Off for an early night, to dream of rhodo covered hilsides and drifts of gymnadenia conopsea, scenting the air!
Diane, are you "back to school" yet, or is it just Scottish schools?
My little neighbour starts tomorrow at primary.... as does Jean Wyllie's grandaughter, Lottie...... :D
Happy days, eh? :D
not such an early night! but enough for now. No school yet, English schools typically go back around the first Monday in September, so a good while yet, to continue all those jobs (still around 400 cyclamen still to repot and plenty of bulbs not yet done, and new Access frame to glaze and fill with a ton of sand ::) )
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Just as well restart later for you, then if those are all to be repotted ! We are not putting out a list this year so some bulbs are not yet repotted but we are catching up on tree pruning :P
Thank goodness for the chance to make these virtual mountain visits here in the Forum........does us good after all that chopping and shredding... thanks!
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Diane,
Loved the gentians.
Wish Maggi would stop talking about back to school - it comes soon enough!
Paddy
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Wonderful show Diane !
I agree with messages above : the Gentians are super !!
Thanks for extending our holliday feeling !
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Wish Maggi would stop talking about back to school - it comes soon enough!
Sorry, Paddy, I extend my sincere apologies to you :-*
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Forgiven, Maggi.
Diane's photographs more than compensate for the momentary recollection of work.
Great report, Diane, really enjoying it.
Paddy
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Diana,
It is Gentiana verna. Beautiful plants and great photographs.
Edit by Maggi : refers to this post on previous page: Re: Austria 2008
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2008, 11:07:23 PM »
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Diana,
It is Gentiana verna. Beautiful plants and great photographs.
Thanks, Franz, good to have confirmation from an expert 8)
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Here was an interesting sign - marking the watershed between the Rhine and the Danube. All water from one side eventually ending up in the North Sea and the other side ending up in the Black Sea
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But on with the plants ...
Some taller plants
Adenostyles alliariae
Cicerbita alpina
Campanula glomerata
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The easy way to the top (notice it's a double decker cable car)
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Mountain view and
Invasive lupins by the lake
Llamas
Help needed here on ID: Little/Short tailed blue?
?Fritillaria sp?
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Antennaria dioica
Linaria alpina
Myosotis alpestris
Salix reticulata
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This batch I would welcome confirmation or otherwise of names
Saxifraga stellaris (confirmed by Franz)
Campanula ?rotundifolia (confirmed as C scheuchzeri)
Androsace ?obtusifolia but the foliage is not very obtuse so is it A chamaejasme? (confirmed as A obtusifolia)
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A lovely set of phogographs, Diane.
I was very taken with Cicerbita alpina in Switzerland. It struck me as a lovely plant, so glad to see you considered it worth posting a photograph of it here. It doesn't really match the general expectations of an alpine plant but it certainly is a good plant.
Of course, the other plants are all excellent also.
Paddy
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An interesting fern, I think Botrychium lunaria
Natural rockery and crevice
Doronicum grandiflorum
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Beautiful image of Doronicum grandiflorum Diane ... competition entry perhaps? ;)
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Beautiful image of Doronicum grandiflorum Diane ... competition entry perhaps? ;)
Now there's a good idea, Cliff .....it's a bosker!
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I agree !!! Wonderful pic !
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Diana,
It is
Saxifraga stellaris
Campanula scheuchzeri
Androsace obtusifolia
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It is Saxifraga stellaris, Campanula scheuchzeri, Androsace obtusifolia
Thank you Franz, I don't know what we do without you (and I'm pleased I wasn't too far off)
Do you have any thoughts on the orchid? (message #13 on this thread) - do you think it is an albino Gymndenia conopsea?
And I hope someone may have a go at identifying the butterflies??
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The black butterfly with white speckles is the Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae). The blue looks like a Dusky Blue, but I'm not sure? Will have to check. The frits are difficult to identify from above.
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The frits are difficult to identify from above.
So the fritillary butterflies are as tricky as the fritillary flowers, then, Anthony? ;D
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Diana,
Sorry, I am not a orchid expert.
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It is Saxifraga stellaris, Campanula scheuchzeri, Androsace obtusifolia
Thank you Franz, I don't know what we do without you (and I'm pleased I wasn't too far off)
Do you have any thoughts on the orchid? (message #13 on this thread) - do you think it is an albino Gymndenia conopsea?
And I hope someone may have a go at identifying the butterflies??
It is an albino of Gymnadenia conopsea in message #13 !
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It is an albino of Gymnadenia conopsea in message #13 !
Thank you Gerhard for that, it was a stunner
And thanks to Anthony for having a go at the butterflies.
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It sure looks like a Botrychium lunaria to me. We found it on a day out with the Yorkshire Fernies led by Barry husband of our own forumist Anne Wright. I couldn't believe it was so tiny, having only ever seen pictures.