Roadside shrine covered in flowers
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| Re Flowers of Crete |
Author Rick Winterburn (195.93.21.68)
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Date 2007/October/16
Csn you tell me the name of the plant that covers the roadside shrine
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| Re Flowers of Crete |
Author Peter ()
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Date 2007/October/16
These are geraniums which grow extremely well outdoors in Crete
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| Lee Stephenson |
This very attractive photo indeed contains Geraniums as we commonly call them. Strictly, they are Pelargonium zonale varieties. The wild species is from South Africa which is similar in climate to lowland Crete (few damaging frosts in winter)so they thrive.
Behind and to the sides of the shrine there appears to be olive trees and what I think look like the corrugated leaves of a Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) an east-asian tree commonly grown in Crete as an ornamental fruit tree. Flowering at Christmas, its fruit is ripe and on sale everywhere in Crete for a short season during May. They are tart, but get sweeter when allowed to over ripen. They rarely appear in UK markets as they don't travel well
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