[Umbrian]

I love Solanum rantonettii and since moving from our hillside house and garden,where I needed to keep it in a pot, now have one in the ground. It does get cut to the ground each winter but new growth appears as soon as the temperatures rise and it is a  quick  grower rewarding me with flowers by midsummer. Nothing like the ones in your photos Hilary but very welcome.

[Hilary]

More bright flowers in Ancient Corinth

The spring of Chatzimustapha where we used to get our drinking water before Corinth was given permission to use and was connected to Stymphalia Lake

Acrocorinth looming over the village 

[Hilary]

DEEP PINK FLOWERS IN JUNE numbers 1-6

1 Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Corinth, Greece
2 Aquilegia, Corinth, Greece. I wish I could remember where I saw this flower
3 Euphorbia rigida. somewhere between Sparta and Tripolis
4 Again Euphorbia rigida between Sparta and Tripolis., but a different year. I like the leaves on this photo
5 Gladiolus, Corinth, Greece, I must have peeped through some railings to get this photo
6 Hibiscus syriacus, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece

[Hilary]

FUCHSIA COLOURED   FLOWERS IN JUNE numbers 1-4

1 Oxalis debilis, Corinth, Greece 
2 Brachychiton discolor, Corinth, Greece
3 Brachychiton discolor flowers on top of Pittosporum tobira hedge, Corinth, Greece
4 Brachychiton discolor flowers, I tried to place the fallen flowers in some sort of arrangement but they wouldn't behave

[Hilary]

PINK FLOWER IN JUNE 1-6

1 Schlumbergera, Corinth, Greece
2 Verbena, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
3 Zephyranthes minuta, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
4 Trifolium stellatum, between Sparta and Tripolis
5 Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Athens Greece
6  a rose bush reaching for the sky outside an abandoned petrol station in deepest eastern Mani, Lakonia, Greece 

Please tell me if I have the wrong names

[Charithea]

What a wonderful selection of flowers. Hilary.

[Hilary]

Yes they are all very bright. We went out to some woods today but all the flowers were tiny and not so bright

[Charithea]

Hilary, I look forward to the posting but there are times when I don't allow enough time to appreciate their beauty or to write a good response.

[Hilary]

Don't worry about answering.
 We can see by the numbers that people are looking at the posts so presumably enjoying them

[Hilary]

MAPSOS, Sunday 14th June 2020

We went for a ride to the woods past Mapsos and found the road longer, narrower and with more bends than we remembered

However, it was a lovely clear day and the views back to Acrocorinth, on the right of the photo, and its neighbouring hill Pendescoufi, on the left, were clear

There were several wild flowers to snap, unfortunately non with a name tag attached.

If anyone can put a name to the yellow flower which I brought home to snap I would be ever so pleased

There were many young pine trees which were giving off their characteristic aroma

[Hilary]

MORE FROM MAPSOS

I have included the photo of the young pine trees in this post today as I discovered an article about forest fires in Greece in 2007 where the fire at Mapsos is mentioned

I quote from FOREST FIRES IN GREECE 2007

“Between 18 and 23 July 2007 attention was concentrated on the fires in the prefecture of Corinth, near the villages of Mapsos and Hiliomodi including the ancient site of Acrocorinthos- the ancient Acropolis of Corinth”

That would explain the presence of so many regenerated pine trees

This white flowering plant was in the shade and was still fresh while all the others in the sun were dried up. By the time I got the cutting back home for a photo the tiny flowers had dried up

The last photo is of the scene looking back towards the Monastery of the Timios Stavros which is hidden behind tall walls

[David Dickinson]

Re your orange Bidens, John. I really didn't expect my hybrid 'Hot n Spicy' to produce seed. Nor did I think, when it did, that it would be viable. Then to see it germinate immediately was a further surprise. Now all that remains to be seen is what colour the flowers (if any) will be.

[Hilary]

RETURNING FROM MAPSOS

The bright red seed pods on the Judas trees, Cercis siliquastrum, were very impressive shining in the sun.
 However, the real reason for stopping the car on our way back to the main Corinth/ Argos road was for me to get up close to the Traveller’s Joy, Clematis vitalba, but looking in the book it looks more like Clematis flammula, Fragrant clematis .Once more I forgot to look at the leaves and smell the flowers.

Since I found their common names in Greek, I will share this information with you
Cercis siliquastrum, Κουτσουπιά
Clematis flammula, αγράμπελη
Clematis vitalba, Λευκάμπελος

[John J]

David, our 2 Bidens seem to be settling in fairly well despite the heat. They appear to be putting on new growth. The owner of the nursery gave them to us as he said no-one was buying them and he didn't know what to do with them. I think we might have to make a trip back there soon as he had several more. If he still hasn't been able to move them maybe we could take them off his hands, for a price of course. 

[Hilary]

WHITE FLOWERS IN JUNE numbers 1-5

1 Euphorbia milii, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
2 Gladiolus, Sparta
3 Magnolia and bee, Sparta
4 Oxalis articulata forma crassipes, At a taverna between Argos and Corinth, Greece
5 Trachelospermum jasminoides, Corinth Greece