Trip to Alanya May 2012

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In the middle of May my wife and I was on a one week Line Dance holiday in Alanya, Turkey. As I am not dancing I went to the Taurus Mountains just behind Alanya to look for some bulborous plants. It is not the best time of year for that, but I was lucky to find the following species:
Allium, Arum, Colchicum, Cyclamen, Gladiolus, Orchidaceae, Ornithogalum. I found these species at a height of 300 – 500m, only 2 hours walk from Alanya city.
Besides these bulbs there were many nice wild flowers (mostly unknown to me) and not the least there were many spectacular rock formations and natural crevice gardens.

So if you are on holiday in Alanya, don’t miss the chance to go botanizing in the mountains. I took 3 short trips of 3-4 hours duration. If your wife goes shopping or are laying at the beach, she won’t even notice that your are away on such short trips

Poul

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Cyclamen from Alanya

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More bulbs from Alanya

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Natural crevice garden in the Taurus mountains

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Wild flowers

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More flowers from the Taurus mountains - and a few animals

[shelagh]

Lovely pictures Poul.  I'm glad you found some colour.

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And finally a member of the orchid family (I think)

Hope you enjoy the pics from a holiday destination.
It was a great holiday - I found much more bulbs than expected and I spend some nice time with the line dancers.
(Maggi, some of them came from Scotland - two of them even from Aberdeen, but they didn't know you or Ian. I asked them to look at the SRGC homepage, so maybe we will have some new members )

Poul

[Lesley Cox]

well that shows what comes of line-dancing! You saw many lovely and interesting things Poul. The crevices were superb, begging for all kinds of little plants to be inserted.

[Maggi Young]

I know of quite a few folks who love Line Dancing..... but I had no idea that there were special holidays for that in Turkey.... Always learning something 

Great that you could see so many flowers in your trips, Poul. You were not wrong about the interesting rocks.

[Pauli]

Hello Pehe,

the orchid is Orchis coriophora ssp. fragrans

regards

Herbert

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well that shows what comes of line-dancing! You saw many lovely and interesting things Poul. The crevices were superb, begging for all kinds of little plants to be inserted.

Lesley, if I had these crevices in my garden I would certainly pay more attention to alpines. Unfortunately I have only a small garden so I better have to stick to bulbs, which is my great interest.

Poul

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I know of quite a few folks who love Line Dancing..... but I had no idea that there were special holidays for that in Turkey.... Always learning something 

Great that you could see so many flowers in your trips, Poul. You were not wrong about the interesting rocks.

Yes it was nice to see all these flowers, but I would have loved to be there in the autumn, to be able to identify the different colchicums - or even better to participate in the SRGC trip to eastern Turkey. That would be great! But as my budget is limited I must take what I can get. And with my trip I think I got much value for the money. It was nice to see the bulbs in their natural habitat even if they were not flowering.

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Hello Pehe,

the orchid is Orchis coriophora ssp. fragrans

regards

Herbert

Thanks for the ID!


I would appreciate if anyone (maybe our Turkish members) could identify more of the flowers. Particular 'Wildflower9' I find very pretty.

Poul

[ArnoldT]

Poul:
Wildflower # 7 looks to be an Eryngium