SW Turkey 31 October to 5 November 2010

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful tale of a trip to the sun (and the plants) in our miserable today's weather, Tony !
Thanks a lot for taking us with you and for not showing the pix of your fellow passengers... 

[Tony Willis]

Thanks!



I always go on holiday dressed for hot weather

Mark what a disappointment,if we are ever at the airport at the same time I will be unable to have coffee and muffins with you in the lounge.

Yes looking through my relatively new SpecSaver glasses I too can see the two flowers with green bits on them,clearly both from the same bulb.My first thought is 'is that it'. I have magnified my other pictures just to see how many more I missed-none, but there appears to be a pure white one(lie) It's not what I go for!

Ian the nearest we came to a fight was at the check in to come home. We had been waiting a few minutes for it to open and when it did much to the dismay of several people they decided to deal with the disabled first.My goodness this created a delay of at least five minutes.

On a lighter note the food was as good as usual enhanced on the first night by one of my meatballs being held together with a large black hair (good for flossing) and the following night a large pink slug crawled out of my salad around the edge of the plate. The owner and I agreed it was a bonus helping of meat.

[cycnich]

Thank you Tony. I did not realise Mathewii grew elsewhere other than Baba Dag

[Tony Willis]

Pat

I got details of the site last year and cannot remember who from. When I visited then the weather was terrible  and all the flowers had been destroyed by rain apart from one half dead one from which I was able to confirm it was a true site for Crocus mathewii. I have only looked over a small area at the top of the pass but there were a good number in lovely flower. I have not seen it in flower on Baba Dag but some random seed I collected there some years ago proved to be it.

[BULBISSIME]

Another wonderfull trip and post.
C. mathewii in the wild is stuning...
Thank's Tony for it and the pictures, as I always love to see plants in nature.
Turkey is THE place where to go for bulbs, and I never been there..
Your post remind me to put it in my plans 

[Tony Willis]

some more

Crocus mathewii
Galanthus peshmenii

[BULBISSIME]

and some more 

more pictures pleeeeeeease !

[Melvyn Jope]

Thank you for your report Tony, good fun to read and excellent pictures. I think you and I could have a Victor Meldrew competition!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Tony your pics are a dream of a white wide world. In my mind I`m there too.

[David Nicholson]

Thank you for your report Tony, good fun to read and excellent pictures. I think you and I could have a Victor Meldrew competition!

..... I'd give you both a run for your money!

[Brian Ellis]

That looks an interesting one front right on P1090974.JPG Tony...or is it the angle?

[Melvyn Jope]

I thought so too Brian until I noticed that it was one flower in front of another...

[Tony Willis]

Brian

I think it is the angle. On the enlarged picture there are actually two flowers and I think they appear as one.

As I was trying to post this Melvyn says the same thing.

Last two pictures from there

[Brian Ellis]

Brian
I think it is the angle. On the enlarged picture there are actually two flowers and I think they appear as one.
As I was trying to post this Melvyn says the same thing.

Yes of course, I have been caught out like that before with photos, you'd think I would have learned by now!

[Margaret Thorne]

We were also in Turkey this autumn at the same time as Tony and visited Baba Dağ on 4th November to search it from bottom to top for Crocuses. Unfortunately someone with a trowel had got there before us. We found our first plants right at the bottom of the mountain, just inside the woodland at 506m and these were like the white Crocus asumaniae we had seen along the Akseki road a week earlier, though slightly less well developed. A little higher up the mountain there were lilac flowered forms too.

Akseki Road Crocus asumaniae: 181, 190
Baba Dag white Crocus asumaniae: 1165, 1171