http://swissmountainleader.com/wp A Mountain Leader in Switzerland Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:51:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/07/23/great-yellow-gentian-gentiana-lutea/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/07/23/great-yellow-gentian-gentiana-lutea/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:05:13 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/?p=1841 I can’t believe I’ve not posted a photo of the great yellow Gentian before, it’s so common that I must have just assumed I’d done it already. This plant is just above the Arnesee between Les Diablerets and Gstaad in Switzerland but it’s common in mountain areas on alkaline soils like the pre-alpes and the [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/07/23/great-yellow-gentian-gentiana-lutea/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/07/23/yellow-mountain-saxifrage/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/07/23/yellow-mountain-saxifrage/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:44:39 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/?p=1836 The first thing to say about Yellow Mountain Saxifrage is not always yellow, it’s relatively rare but you’ll also find dark red or orange plants like this one at Isenau above Les Diablerets. It’s a magnet for insects and will attract wasps, bees and beetles and so on. It favours cliffs with trickling water and damp [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/07/23/yellow-mountain-saxifrage/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/07/13/fragrant-orchid-gymnadenia-conopsea/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/07/13/fragrant-orchid-gymnadenia-conopsea/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:27:22 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/?p=1821 These flowers have developed to attract moths and butterflies who can reach inside the flower with their proboscis. Early evening these flowers produce their most intense fragrance. This is just above Leysin on some calcareous soil at around 2200m which is a typical environment for the fragrant orchid.

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