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Personal photoblog of outdoor photographer Martin Stevens, based in The Netherlands but traveling around. Nature, landscape, architecture, travel ... but mostly flowers.
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Stinzenflowers flowering again
In my garden and on the estates in 's-Graveland, Netherlands the special bulbflowers are flowering again :-) Grape hyacinth, Hellebore, anemone blanda, chionodoxa, petasites, scilla, daffodil.......
special job
Wednesday and thursday an inventarisation job for Econsultancy. Hired to educate a couple of fieldworkers in recognation plants and vegetation types. Project leader is my son :-) Not so good weather, cloudy and on thursday almost whole day raining. B...
Sunset and flowers
Wednesday a beautiful sunset in De Wieden, a lake and swamp area, famous for its nature and Natura 2000 protected. Iris foetidissima in my garden is after years in flower for the very first time. Grown from seed... and sometimes I'm experimenting ima...
France
Some time between the postings.. I've been busy with traveling and other things. Here a brief impression of South France. Orchids, villages. ....
Stinzen estates again. Tulip and garden
One of the last days I made images for the stinzen book. Wild tulips, special wood anemones, Leeuwarden, Dekemastate, Franeker, Wijckel... ...
Kaapse Bossen, Jagtlust en tulp
Yesterday been to the "Kaapse bossen" near Doorn, Utrecht. Remarkable tower (the Kaap), remarkable sight. And a colony of southern wood ant or horse ant (formica rufa) with tracks of the Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis), shown as holes and a shit on ...
Friesland stinzengardens again
Today very good weather for working for the Stinzengarden book. Several new estates (Stinzen) en new fowers on different spots. Blue anemone: Anemone appenina, blue wood anemone: Anemone nemerosa cv robinsoniana (?) and more. Vandaag weer e...
wood anemone and others
Today prfect weather, but cold. Some wood anemones (anemone nemerosa) purple deadnettle (lamium purpureum) Peach at the fruit-wall, daffodils, crocus (planted by visitors.. not really wild) shadbush (amelanchier lamarkii) and a bench on Schaep en Bur...
Spring, Lente
The brown frogs are mating in our little pond. Daffodil and spotted deadnetlle (Lamium maculatum) are flowering. De bruine kikkers zijn weer aan het paren in de vijver en de narcissen en gevlekte dovenetels bloeien...
Stinzen. Dekemastate Jelsum
Today cold but beautiful weather. For the book been to Friesland to visit the stinzen estate Dekema State. ...
Stinzen en Limburg
Friday beautiful weather after a lot of dull day's. Been to Wolvega in Friesland for the book about stinzengardens. The gate was open and worked a lot and when I wanted to leave the gate was closed.... but there was a way out. Bird-in-a-bush, Coryda...
True oxlip, primula elatior, slanke sleutelbloem
Oxlip is flowering now in the garden, a little bit early.. but it does. Oxlip is rare in the Netherlands, mostly seen in the east and south and cultivated in gardens. De slanke sleutelbloem bloeit alweer een paar dagen in de tuin. Ook deze zeldzame...
gewone dotterbloem (Caltha palustris) Kingcup, Marsh Marigold or Cowslip
The Kingcup or Marsh Marigold or in the USa Cowslip is already flowering.. thats about a month earlier than usual. This formerly common plant in the Netherlands is becoming more and more rare because of the use of farmland. It needs a nutrient-poor a...
Gevlekt longkruid (Pulmonaria officinalis) Common lungwort
Common lungwort was flowering last saterday on the stinzen etstae Epemastate in Ysbrechtum, Friesland. The spots and shape of the leaves looks like lungs, therefore it was used for lungdiseases, following the Doctrine of signatures. But it don't work...
Spring snowflake, Leucojum vernum, lenteklokje
Spring snowflake is flowering for some days. This is again a stinzenflower and this picture is made in the garden of the townhall in Joure, Friesland, a stinzengarden. Het lentklokje bloeit alweer een paar dagen in de tuin. Deze stinzenplant is gef...
Daffodil, Squill and Salmonberry, wilde narcis, vroege sterhyacinth en prachtframboos.
Narcissus pseudonarcissus: Wild Daffodil, Scilla bifolia: Alpine Squill and Rubus spectabilis: Salmonberry were flowering today in the estate park of Boekesteijn, 's-Graveland. Again a Stinzengarden and stinzenflowers. Not specially early, but most o...
Green Haert, Groene Hart van Holland, en de eerste tulp
Today a walk of about 8 km through the so called Green Haert in the middle of the Netherlands. Its an open area between Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem and Amsterdam roughly with a very old history of use by farmers. Almost only wet peat-soil...
Stinzentuin, Stinzengarden, Nijland Friesland
Today a superior day for making images for the book about Stinzen (see yesterday) A garden which I didn't visit yet, the vicarage garden of the church in Nijland near Bolsward, Friesland, The Netherlands. Famaus for its Winter aconite vegatation...
Spring crocus, Crocus vernus, bonte krokus
Nature is exploding now. Temperature about 12 degrees C in shadow, all day sun, less windy... its weather if it was March. So much flowers start now that I cannot put all of them in this blog. This time a well known garden bulb, Spring crocus. In the...
Hollow Larkspur, Corydalis cava, holwortel
Hollow larkspur or Bulbous corydalis is a very early flowering bulbflower which is planted in the Netherlands as a gardenplant in the 17th age and later. It's normally growing in moisty mountain slopes near rivers and wineyards in the middle of Euro...
Snowdrop again, sneeuwklokje. Galanthus nivalis
Snowdrops are flowering now everywhere in the netherlands. A very famous estate on the edge of Utrecht, Amelisweerd, hundreds of thousands snowdrops are flowering. here you see the double snowdrop and the common snowdrop in the roots of a beech tre...
Common chickweed (Stellaria media), vogelmuur
Common chickweed is an edible plant which grows everywhere and is flowering the whole year. Its stops when it is freezing and than it can disappear, but there are so many seeds around the plant that when it is good weather again it starts growing. In...
Common Hazel (Corylus avellana) Hazelaar
Common hazel is flowering for two weeks here in Holland, due to the warm winter we have. The flowers monoecious, with single-sex wind-pollinated catkins, the male catkins are pale yellow, while the female catkins are very small and largely concealed...
European Cornel (Cornus mas) Gele Kornoelje
This shrub is always flowering very early here. Its a rather rare but stabil species for the Netherlands. In the USA its called Cornelian Cherry because it has edible fruit. De gele kornoelje bloeit altijd als een van de eerste struiken in Nederla...
wall-foxglove, muurvingerhoedskruid
I found this foxglove two weeks ago, growing in old stone wall on a nursery. Sometimes plants are growing on places you never would expect them. Ik vond deze vingerhoedskruid groeiend in een muurtje op de kwekerij Land en Boschzigt in 's-Graveland. ...
Sunset, zonsondergan in Loosdrecht
Four houres sun today.. the first in days and a beautiful cloude sky, than I have to make again a sunset in Loosdrecht, Noord-Holland about 4 kilometers from my house. This is a lake which is used partly as a drinking water bassin for Amsterdam. An...
Common Butterbur (Petasites hybridus) Groot Hoefblad
Common butterbur is flowering. I saw along the road to Amsterdam yesterday the first flowers. Not exuberant, but it was flowering! Butterbur flowers with male or female flowers and these are female. For hundreds of years butterbur has been used again...
Colchicum hungaricum
This form of Colchicum of which I couldn't find a proper English name, but translated it could be Hungarian Meadow Saffron, is from the Balkan and flowers december-march normally. Its a rather difficult species but today he was flowering again for th...
Crocus tommasinianus, Early crocus, Boerenkrokus
Crocus tommasinianus is flowering. Yesterday it was a sunny day, but I couldn't come to my garden in time, other things to do. But they were in bloom! Her a pic of some years ago. I've got individual groups which are flowering 4 - 5 weeks earlier th...
Winter aconite, Winterakoniet
Winter Aconite is winter flowering. In tje Netherlands its now starting, in the north a week later. Winter Aconite is an ornamental flower from south europe and mostly planted in estate gardens which in the northern part of Holland isare named Stinz...
