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Little shoeshop of the wooded meadow

04.06.2009 - 21:17 |  Looduskalender
Text and photo: Toivo Tuberik
Translation: Liis from forum
 
 
When the flowering of snowdrops and snowflakes is past, the waiting for the cowslips and the globeflowers is over, the lilies of the valley are shining in the white nights – then the time has come to turn your steps to the secret back rooms of well-known wooded meadows and marsh islets. There the beautiful lady’s slipper has opened its first flowers – or we might say, a small secretive shoe-shop. What tiny foot might fit into such footwear?

 Discovering a lady’s slipper is one of the most exhilarating of all late-spring experiences for a rambler. I remember the amazement of artist Valli Lember-Bogatkina, and how she clapped her hands in pure joy when she first saw these beauties when she was over 80 years old. Her comment – Dear god, how can I have lived for so long and not known these flowers!

 
Old friends of the lady’s slipper as well as new acquaintances have the chance to go searching for them each day from June 8 to June 14 in the Mahtra bog area together with the author; don’t hesitate to contact me.

And there is also the opportunity to find other native orchids. In the Mahtra Nature Protection Area there are about 20 species.

 
More information:
 
Toivo Tuberik
5076214
mahtra.rahvakool@mail.ee

 

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