Flower report, April 14th – Anopoli Everything you want to ask, read or write about Sfakia, southwest Crete, or Crete island in general.

[Jean]

Here are close-ups of some of the other flowers we saw in Anopoli on Sunday. There are also 3 photo flowers in the other posting from the 14th (hill orchid, gladiola, tassel hyacinth)

Orchids:

Grecian spider orchid (Ophrys spuneri)

Small yellow ophrys

Orchis quadripunctata

Eastern serapias

Robert’s giant orchids

Non-orchids:

low-to-the- ground “star flowers” (Ornithogalum exscapum)

wild pinks (Petrorhagia velutina), with a single tiny bloom on a tall thin stalk

small orange field marigolds (Calendula arvensis)

lupins

common asphodel

[kiki]

Wow -so beautiful !

Thanks for the very nice photos!