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Sapria species by Alastair Robinson and Jeremy Holden.
A few days ago, my good friend and field botanist Alastair Robinson posted a short video showing the rare holoparasitic plantSapria himalayanain its habitat in Thailand. With his distinctive dry...
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April 2019 : botanical expedition in Sumatra !
2019 will be a special year : after a December-January sojourn in the Seychelles, I will join in April, a group of friends for a botanical expedition in Sumatra: expect many articles on Nepenthes,...
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Coelogyne fimbriata, the Fringed Coelogyne.
A good part of the 80+ plants I kept from my former collection after I move house are orchids. So far, they seem to adjust well to their now 'home'. ThisCoelogyne fimbriata has been growing outside...
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Leaving for the Seychelles...
That's it !I am currently waiting for boarding here in Paris International Airport. By tomorrow afternoon, I shall start a series of posts dedicated to the great Seychelles archipelago. We will be...
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Happy New Year 2019 !
I wish you all the best for the forthcoming year. I amStill in the Seychelles right now. Expect many posts fromthat trip when I come back. In the meanwhile, check the Facebook page if you want to see a...
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An iridescent Selaginella.
I just came back yersterday from my Seychelles tripbut I feel already in the mood of starting my series of blog articles dedicated to this unique archipelago. Let's start with an intriguing plant I...
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A stroll in the Port Launay Mangrove forest.
We start our sojourn in the Seychelles in Mahé, the archipelago biggest island. There, we had our first nature walk -a mere little stroll- in the mangrove forest near the small town of Port Launay.We...
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Ocypode ceratophthalma, an (almost) elusive crab from Baie Ternay Marine...
Going on with my newly found interest in crabs, let me introduce you to one of the most memorable representatives I encountered in the course of my two-weeks sojourn in the Seychelles, namely Ocypode...
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Ardea cinerea, the Grey Heron, in Baie Ternay Marine National Park.
Having developed a quite recent interest in bird watching thanks to my eldest daughter, I was quite motivated to spare some of the time I usually devote to botany to ornithology. On Sunday December...
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First contact with the Seychellois aquatic marine life.
Another post at Bay Marine National Park in the North of Mahé island. Even though I was not really used to this kind of biotope (I'm more a forest or a mountain guy), I couldn't help to investigate it...
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First meeting with the highly anticipated Nepenthes pervillei, at dusk.
Traveling to the Seychelles was obviously the opportunity of a lifetime to observe the endemic Nepenthes pervillei. To the new readers of the blog (I know there have been quite a few recently): these...
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The ever impressive Alocasia macrorrhizos in Mahé island.
Another post dedicated to my Seychelles trip.I will unsurprisingly write a long series from this sojourn in the following weeks. Maybe, in between, I will include some posts on my cultivated plants or...
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New Instagram account!
Dear readers,I now have a new Instagram account for this blog. It is called ‘gardenschronicle’. I had never really fed the previous one (‘agardenschronicle’). This will be clearly different this time....
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Starting the Trois Frères trail on Mahé island.
One of the first highlight of our Seychelles sojourn was undeniably the Trois Frères trail that we followed on Monday, December 24th. 'Trois Frères' is the French for 'Three Brothers'. The names...
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Two different vanilla from the Trois Frères mountain.
Climbing the Trois Frères mountain was obviously a chance for me to look for the local species of Orchidaceae, one of my very favorite groups of plants-how original I know. ;-) In the course of my...
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Lycognathophis seychellensis, the Seychelles wolf snake.
Seychelles might not be the very best destination there is for herping if one excludes the remarkable exceptions of the giant tortoise and sea turtles. However, the archipelago does host some...
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Cattleya maxima.
Let's have a short break with the long series of Seychelles articles I am currently writing and posting here on the blog. A few weeks before I left France for the Indian Ocean on last December, I was...
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A discreet orchid from Mont des Trois frères.
I spotted that very discreet epiphyte while I was climbing the Mont des Trois Frères on Mahé island about two months ago. It was the sole specimen I could find and I nearly missed it as I was...
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Some Isolated Nepenthes pervillei on the Mont des Trois Frères.
One of the obvious targets while ascending the Mont des Trois Frères on Mahé island was to observe the Nepenthes pervillei population that occurs there. According to the literature, the endemic...
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The Nepenthes pervillei population of Trois Frères Mountain
I have my hands full at the moment. I came back from an exceptional trip in Sumatra one week ago and have to sort out thousands of pictures and notes that will keep me busy for the forthcoming weeks...
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