Flowers of the Silk Road

FINALLY WE CAN ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL OF OUR BOOK! We're sorry for the long silence but we wanted to know just when the book was going to be available. Last minute setbacks with the publishi...

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Alas, my tour schedule and finalizing everything related to the book finally clashed and I won't have time to review the final proofs until I return from a tour to NW India in mid-July. The firs...

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Despite centuries of plant hunting and botanical science many new are plants are still being described and I’m sure many of us would love to discover a beautiful new flower or to have one name...

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First of all sorry for nothing appearing here for a long while, but we’re now delighted to announce that we have finally signed a contract with IB Tauris for the publication of the book with a...

http://flowersofthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2013/09/at-last.html

Admittedly we’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front of late but hopefully things will soon pick up again.  Hopefully we now have a publisher and the intention is to have the book on the s...

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This was my fourth visit to southern Chile and floristically the best so far with good rains in the drier northern deserts and amazing weather courtesy of El Nina.  I was travelling with prof...

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We’ve been fortunate to see many wild hardy orchids around the world especially in Europe and Asia and standout examples would be fields of Orchis palustris in eastern Turkey, Ophrys-rich limes...

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It’s been too long between posts we know, but with good reason – we decided to undertake a complete revision of the book that involved ditching the botanical structure we had before and inst...

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Sorry for a lack of posts of late, I’ve just returned from five weeks in China and blogs such as this are blocked there!  The first half of my trip was a tour I led to Yunnan which was superb ...

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For some years I’ve led tours around Turkey - the world’s premier temperate bulb paradise - visiting the south-west, central, north-east and east , but one area had always missed out the nor...

http://flowersofthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2011/05/forgotten-flowers-of-north-west-turkey.html

Chris is just back from a great Greentours trip in Turkey that took an original route from Hatay (Antakya) to Cappadocia, calling in at Osmaniye and Karamannmaras on the way and visiting everyt...

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What a superb trip this turned out to be!  Despite the financial worries of laying out for the trip it delivered with a stunning array of early season flowers.  I began in Dushanbe capital of T...

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Just as I thought my hopes of reaching Central Asia were just a dream everything has come together at the last minute and I’ll be flying to Dushanbe in Tajikistan in early April.  The plan is...

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Spring is well and truly underway here in SW TK with lots of Romulea tempskyana, Iris unguicularis and ivory-white Astragalus lusitanicus in flower (our small colony of sweet-scented Narcissus ta...

http://flowersofthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2011/02/flowers-of-sw-turkey.html

The first draft of the photo spreads for the book will be completed this week so to keep things ticking over on the blog we want to change the sample selection every few days so keep en eye on th...

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We’ve got most of the pics we need, but there are always a few loose ends and annoying these are strung out across Asia.  There are some superb species we’ve got to try and include and ...

http://flowersofthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2011/01/searching-for-final-flowers.html

A celebration of the finest mountain flowers that lay along the fabled Silk Road beginning in Istanbul, Turkey and passing through Iran to  Central Asia from where we continue the jour...

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