Flowers in Crete
8 pages on its gardens, flowers and customs in Crete, Greece.
Glory of the snowChionodoxa
Small spring bulbs with blue, pink or white star-shaped flowers
🇹🇷 Turkey and 4 more · Wildflower
Greek cyclamenCyclamen graecum
An autumn-blooming cyclamen with heart-shaped leaves from Greece and Crete
🇬🇷 Greece and 1 more · Wildflower
Paeonia clusii
A white or pink peony found wild only on Crete, Karpathos, and Rhodes
Paeonia clusii · Wildflower
Sieber's crocusCrocus sieberi
A small wild crocus from the Balkans with vivid orange stamens
🇬🇷 Greece and 4 more · Wildflower
Tulipa saxatilis
A wild pink tulip from the Aegean islands and western Turkey
🇹🇷 Turkey and 2 more · Wildflower
Crocus cartwrightianus
A small autumn-blooming crocus from Greece with vivid red stigmas
🇬🇷 Greece · Wildflower
Decoration
Rosette
A round, stylized flower motif used in art and decoration
🇪🇬 Egypt and 2 more · Art or design
Persian buttercupRanunculus asiaticus
A garden favourite with layered petals in vivid red, pink, yellow or white
🇵🇸 Palestine and 2 more · Garden flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Sieber's crocus: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rosette: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Glory of the snow: Teun Spaans, CC BY 3.0, source
- Greek cyclamen: Mark Griffiths, GFDL, source
- Paeonia clusii: Beckmann Sabine, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tulipa saxatilis: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocus cartwrightianus: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Persian buttercup: SuperJew, CC BY-SA 3.0, source