Flowers of Europe
Tulip fields, lavender, roses, alpine meadows, flower carpets and the great garden shows. 389 pages on Phool so far.
🇫🇷 France 153🇮🇹 Italy 124🇬🇧 United Kingdom 102🇪🇸 Spain 99🇩🇪 Germany 86🇮🇪 Ireland 63🇬🇷 Greece 58🇵🇹 Portugal 55🇳🇱 Netherlands 43🇦🇹 Austria 38🇧🇬 Bulgaria 38🇸🇪 Sweden 34🇷🇴 Romania 30🇵🇱 Poland 26🇨🇭 Switzerland 25🇺🇦 Ukraine 25🇫🇮 Finland 23🇳🇴 Norway 20🇷🇸 Serbia 19🇦🇱 Albania 18🇧🇪 Belgium 18🇭🇷 Croatia 16🇭🇺 Hungary 16🇸🇮 Slovenia 16🇱🇹 Lithuania 11🇮🇸 Iceland 10🇱🇻 Latvia 10🇲🇹 Malta 10🇪🇪 Estonia 9🇨🇿 Czech Republic 8🇲🇰 North Macedonia 8🇸🇰 Slovakia 7🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6🇧🇾 Belarus 5🇲🇩 Moldova 4🇲🇪 Montenegro 4🇽🇰 Kosovo 2🇲🇨 Monaco 2🇦🇩 Andorra 1
TulipTulipa
Spring-blooming bulbs with showy, cup-shaped flowers in many colours
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 7 more · Wildflower
RosemarySalvia rosmarinus
A fragrant evergreen shrub with needle-like leaves and purple, blue, or white flowers
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 more · Flowering shrub
Wild cherryPrunus avium
A tall flowering tree native to Europe, grown for its sweet fruit and spring blossom
🇮🇹 Italy and 6 more · Flowering tree
Narcissus
Spring-flowering bulbs with trumpet-shaped blooms in white, yellow, and orange
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
HawthornCrataegus
A thorny shrub or tree with white or pink spring flowers and small edible fruits
🇮🇪 Ireland and 7 more · Wildflower
Lily-of-the-valleyConvallaria majalis
A woodland plant with sweet-scented white bell flowers in late spring
🇫🇮 Finland and 4 more · Wildflower
BlackthornPrunus spinosa
A spiny shrub with white spring flowers and tart blue-black fruit
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
Wild GarlicAllium ursinum
A wild woodland plant with star-shaped white flowers and edible leaves
🇮🇪 Ireland · Wildflower
Bay laurelLaurus nobilis
Evergreen tree with aromatic leaves used as bay leaf in cooking
🇬🇷 Greece and 9 more · Flowering tree
Pedunculate oakQuercus robur
A towering oak tree with stalked acorns, native to Europe and western Asia
🇷🇸 Serbia and 8 more · Flowering tree
ElderSambucus nigra
A tall shrub or small tree with clusters of white flowers and dark berries
🇩🇪 Germany and 6 more · Wildflower
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum
A large flowering tree known for its white spring blooms and shiny brown conkers
🇦🇱 Albania and 7 more · Flowering tree
Common hawthornCrataegus monogyna
A thorny shrub or tree with white spring flowers and red fruit, native to Europe
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 more · Wildflower
Place
Orto botanico di Pisa
Europe’s first university botanical garden, founded in 1544 in Pisa, Italy
Pisa, 🇮🇹 Italy · Botanical garden
Place
Rhododendron-Park Bremen
A vast park in Bremen with the world’s largest rhododendron and azalea collection
Bremen, 🇩🇪 Germany · Botanical garden
Place
Villa Rufolo
A historic villa in Ravello with year-round flower gardens and sea views
Ravello, 🇮🇹 Italy · Flower garden
Place
Parc Floral de la Source
A large public garden in Orléans built around the source of the Loiret river
Orléans, 🇫🇷 France · Botanical garden
Place
Columbia Road Flower Market
London’s busy Sunday street market for fresh flowers and plants
London, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Flower market
Place
International Garden Festival
Britain’s first major international garden festival, held in Liverpool in 1984
Liverpool, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Festival or show, May to Oct
Decoration
BeltaneBealtaine / Là Bealltainn / Boaltinn
The Gaelic May Day festival with bonfires and yellow flower decorations
🇮🇪 Ireland and 1 more · Custom, May
Place
Viktualienmarkt
Munich’s central open-air market with flowers, food and local stalls
Munich, 🇩🇪 Germany · Flower market
Place
Jardin botanique de Deshaies
A 7-hectare botanical garden in Deshaies, Guadeloupe with global plant collections
Deshaies, 🇫🇷 France · Botanical garden
Place
Giardino Botanico Fondazione André Heller
A hillside botanical garden above Lake Garda with plants and modern sculpture
Gardone Riviera, 🇮🇹 Italy · Botanical garden
Oxeye DaisyLeucanthemum vulgare
A white-petalled wildflower of meadows, now found across much of the world
🇱🇻 Latvia and 6 more · Wildflower
Wild daffodilNarcissus pseudonarcissus
A pale yellow spring flower and the national emblem of Wales
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 9 more · Wildflower
Place
RHS Garden Rosemoor
A public display garden in north Devon with woodland, roses and themed plantings
Great Torrington, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Flower garden
Mountain arnicaArnica montana
A yellow-flowered herb from Europe's uplands, used in herbal traditions
🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Wildflower
Common LilacSyringa vulgaris
A spring-flowering shrub with fragrant purple or white blooms
🇷🇸 Serbia and 4 more · Garden flower
Early Purple OrchidOrchis mascula
A wild orchid with purple flowers found across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East
🇮🇪 Ireland and 6 more · Wildflower
Leucojum
White-flowered bulbs of damp meadows and shady gardens
🇪🇸 Spain and 6 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Hortus Eystettensis
A 1613 botanical book showing over 1,000 garden plants from a Bavarian palace
🇩🇪 Germany · Art or design
Place
Jardin botanique de Bordeaux
Historic botanical garden in the heart of Bordeaux, France
Bordeaux, 🇫🇷 France · Botanical garden
Place
RHS Garden Wisley
A major English garden with glasshouses, borders and plant trials in Surrey
Wisley, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Botanical garden
Decoration
Bollenstreek Flower Parade
A spring flower parade from Noordwijk to Haarlem in the Netherlands
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Parade or display, April
Small Pasque FlowerPulsatilla pratensis
A bell-shaped wildflower of meadows in central and eastern Europe
🇳🇴 Norway and 4 more · Wildflower
Poet's daffodilNarcissus poeticus
A fragrant white daffodil linked to ancient Greek myth and poetry
🇪🇸 Spain and 6 more · Wildflower
Place
Flor og Fjære
Tropical-inspired gardens and restaurant on Sør-Hidle island, Norway
Stavanger, 🇳🇴 Norway · Flower garden, May to Sep
Sea kaleCrambe maritima
Salt-loving coastal plant with edible white-flowered shoots
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
Iris florentina
A white, violet-scented iris grown for orris root and as a grave flower
🇮🇹 Italy and 7 more · Wildflower
Spring Pasque FlowerPulsatilla vernalis
A small, early-blooming wildflower of Europe's mountain regions
🇳🇴 Norway and 2 more · Wildflower
Paeonia peregrina
A wild red peony native to southeastern Europe and Turkey
🇷🇴 Romania and 7 more · Wildflower
HaberleaHaberlea rhodopensis
A rare Balkan flower that revives after years without water
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 1 more · Wildflower
Ramonda nathaliaeНаталијина рамонда
A small Balkan flower that can survive drying out and revive with water
🇷🇸 Serbia and 2 more · Wildflower
Sieber's crocusCrocus sieberi
A small wild crocus from the Balkans with vivid orange stamens
🇬🇷 Greece and 4 more · Wildflower
Place
Keukenhof
A vast Dutch flower garden famous for its spring tulip displays
Lisse, 🇳🇱 Netherlands · Flower garden, Mar to May
Star-of-BethlehemOrnithogalum umbellatum
A white, star-shaped spring flower that opens late in the day
🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Wildflower
Place
Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian UniversityOgród Botaniczny Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Poland’s oldest botanical garden, in Kraków, with thousands of plant species
Kraków, 🇵🇱 Poland · Botanical garden, Apr to Oct
Place
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
London’s world-renowned botanical gardens and plant science centre
Kew, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Botanical garden
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Beltane: Stefan Schäfer, Lich, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bollenstreek Flower Parade: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- International Garden Festival: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Villa Rufolo: Istvánka, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- RHS Garden Wisley: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- RHS Garden Rosemoor: Patche99z, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Columbia Road Flower Market: SunDawn, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Parc Floral de la Source: Croquant, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rhododendron-Park Bremen: -- Xocolatl 00:35, 13 January 2008 (UTC), Public domain, source
- Orto botanico di Pisa: Sailko, CC BY 3.0, source
- Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University: Iwona Grabska, CC BY 2.5, source
- Flor og Fjære: Kilabs, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Jardin botanique de Bordeaux: J W, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Hortus Eystettensis: Wolfgang Kilian, Public domain, source
- Jardin botanique de Deshaies: myself, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Viktualienmarkt: User:Mattes, Public domain, source
- Bay laurel: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, source
- Oxeye Daisy: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Wild daffodil: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wild cherry: MPF, CC BY 2.5, source
- Mountain arnica: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhlers Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain, source
- Common Lilac: Nedelin, CC BY 2.5, source
- Early Purple Orchid: Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Leucojum: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, GFDL 1.2, source
- Star-of-Bethlehem: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sea kale: Charlesdrakew, Public domain, source
- Poet's daffodil: Arnaucc, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Small Pasque Flower: The original uploader was Walter Pfliegler at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Iris florentina: Abrahami, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Spring Pasque Flower: DimiTalen, CC0, source
- Paeonia peregrina: Димитър Найденов / Dimìtar Nàydenov, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Haberlea: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ramonda nathaliae: Francine Riez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sieber's crocus: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Keukenhof: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Elder: Willow, CC BY 2.5, source
- Giardino Botanico Fondazione André Heller: Argonobi, CC0, source
- Tulip: John O'Neill, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lily-of-the-valley: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rosemary: Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, CC BY 2.0, source
- Blackthorn: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hawthorn: Nadiatalent, Public domain, source
- Wild Garlic: Agnes Monkelbaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pedunculate oak: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Narcissus: Uberprutser, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Horse-chestnut: Stephan van Helden, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common hawthorn: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source