Winter getaway – Dobrogea II
Continuing the Dobrogea I with other species which call this particular and beautiful region home.
I hope you already got a taste of it; this should make it easier when growing some of these species from seeds and also help selecting the garden location.
First a mention for two endemic species:
Campanula romanica:
Centaurea jankae: a species with few populations known only to exist in Romania and Bulgaria. Good luck (and broken stems by wind/animals) made it to find a few late flowers to photograph.
Remembering the sunny days of past summer, the flowers, the rocks and wildlife:
Stachys atherocalyx, very similar with Stachys recta that I offered seeds from Carpathian Mts.
Hedysarum grandiflorum, as well just one late flowering stem was waiting to be immortalized :)
Convolvulus cantabrica, perfect in a rockery and probably hardy in our area (Ontario) with reliable snow covered. I have a two-year old Convolvulus tragacanthodes growing in the rockery, we’ll see how it comes out from this winter.
Cephalaria uralensis
The Dobrogean tortuga for a variation
Thymus zygioides, found growing in the company of Paronychia cephalotes
One more view from Macin Mts.
And a little lizard (Lacerta) basking in the sun
There were many other species of course; maybe more to follow when the next wave of arctic air hits us!
I love your road trips! The colour of that centurea is amazing. :)
Thanks Gill; it feels good to remember those sunny days :)