Flowers of Crete

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
Bookings for 2014
now being taken »

Botanic art
workshops, 2014;
food foraging and discovery trips.
See our specialised holidays page
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Wild flower calendar pages »
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Flowers of Crete mission statement in Greek

Flowers of Crete

Aims of Flowers of Crete
Please click here to read the aims of Flowers of Crete.

WELCOME to the Flowers of Crete website

News

Monitoring Crete’s endemic plants: in late April and early May 2014, monitoring of key species took place, undertaken by the University of Athens for the Greek government. See news here >.

Unforgettable things to do … discovering wild flowers on Crete. See news here >.

Flowers of Crete flower finding trips for 2014 available here and botanic art workshops here.

Flowers of Crete on Facebook: click on the Facebook button in the left column to follow or 'like' us.

Flower of the month
July 2014

Lomelosia minoana sps minoana

Endemic to the Dikti Mountains, this large-flowering scabious is very ornamental and also has wonderful fruiting heads.

More flowers month by month here.

Flowers of Crete merchandise

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

Click on Flowers of Crete merchandise for more information

Cyclamen graecum — from the Flowers of Crete calendar 2014

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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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