🇬🇪 The flowers of Georgia
24 pages from Georgia: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 4 cities and regions.
SnowdropGalanthus
White bell-shaped flowers that bloom at the end of winter
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
Armenian tulipTulipa armena
A wild tulip from the Armenian Highlands with many forms and colours
🇦🇲 Armenia and 4 more · Wildflower
Fern leaf peonyPaeonia tenuifolia
A finely divided, red-flowered peony from the steppes of Eurasia
🇬🇪 Georgia and 7 more · Wildflower
Iberian irisIris iberica
A rare, boldly veined iris from the Caucasus steppes
🇬🇪 Georgia and 4 more · Wildflower
Eichler tulipTulipa eichleri
A rare deep red tulip from the Caucasus and Iran with a dark central blotch
🇬🇪 Georgia and 4 more · Wildflower
Place
Batumi Botanical Gardenბათუმის ბოტანიკური ბაღი
A vast Black Sea garden with plants from around the world and sweeping sea views
Batumi, 🇬🇪 Georgia · Botanical garden
Sheep laurelKalmia angustifolia
A low evergreen shrub with deep pink flowers and toxic leaves
🇬🇪 Georgia · Wildflower
Decoration
Nowruzنوروز
Spring New Year festival marked by fire, greenery, and festive gatherings
🇮🇷 Iran and 9 more · Custom, March
Paeonia daurica
A wild peony with many forms, native from the Balkans to Iran
🇬🇪 Georgia and 7 more · Wildflower
Sweet mock orangePhiladelphus coronarius
A fragrant white-flowered shrub from the Caucasus and Turkey, grown in gardens
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Oxeye DaisyLeucanthemum vulgare
A white-petalled wildflower of meadows, now found across much of the world
🇱🇻 Latvia and 6 more · Wildflower
Paulownia泡桐
A fast-growing East Asian tree with pale violet foxglove-like flowers
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Flowering tree
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Oxeye Daisy: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Snowdrop: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Armenian tulip: Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Fern leaf peony: Loquita desita, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Eichler tulip: Mbzt, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Batumi Botanical Garden: DraculaARM, Public domain, source
- Nowruz: Katzenfee50, CC0, source
- Paeonia daurica: Orjen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet mock orange: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Bielefeld assumed (based o, Public domain, source
- Sheep laurel: A. Barra, CC BY 3.0, source
- Paulownia: Unknown author, Public domain, source