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Web pages to help learn about flowers
on Crete:

Ten common flowers of Crete

Ten Cretan orchids

Ten rare plants of Crete

Flower books for Crete
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Flower and orchid finding trips 2013
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Botanic art workshop,
October 2013;
food foraging and discovery trips.
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News

'Canker stain' disease of plane trees on mainland Greece. More in news here >.

Residential Botanical Workshop 23 April – 2 May 2013 with emphasis on sustainable living and supporting local communities. More details here >.

Flower of Crete calendar 2013. More below or here >.

Wildlife art from beach clean up. Photo-feature here >.

Cavo Sidero: development on Natura 2000 site gets 'Fast Track' approval. Minoan Group's leisure and tourism development is scaled back, but Environmental Impact Assessment still to be approved. More in news here >.

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Paeonia clusii

Flower of the month, May
 Paeonia clusii

This beautiful flower, found only on Crete, mostly in the White Mountains, is usually white, though occasionally (as pictured) is pink.

It's such a striking looking bloom that Bridegrooms from Sfakia used to pin a peony on their lapels, it's said.

More flowers month by month here.


Flowers of Crete merchandise

  • Flowers of Crete calendar 2013
  • Handmade bookmarks (right)
  • Flowers of Crete T-shirts (right)

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Campanula pelviformis
Campanula pelviformis - from the Flowers of Crete calendar 2013

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Flowers of Crete T-shirt

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red palm weevil

Saving the Cretan Palm

The Cretan palm Phoenix theophrastii is found only on the coast of Crete and south-western Turkey, and on Crete is best known from Vai and Préveli.

The red palm weevil, sadly sometimes imported on cultivated palm species, is a serious threat to the near-endemic Cretan palm and every effort needs to be taken to try to stop its progress.  You can help by keeping an eye out of the weevil and its grubs and reporting news to Flowers of Crete. More here.
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