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Marsh bloomers
June 14th – July, 2025, High Fens. Walking on the wooden paths (“caillebottis” in French, “vlonderpaden” in Dutch) of the Belgian highland, the marsh bloomers just above the high grasses attract immediate attention.
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Tiny monsters
June 13-14th, 2025, High Fens near the Belgian-German border. The leaves of the sundew (zonnedauw (NL), rossolis (F)) are particularly well-equipped to catch small insects and any minute things that come too close to their tentacles. These tiny monsters aren’t … Continue reading
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Wild bloomers
June 12th, 2025, High Fens, Belgium-Germany border. Late spring in the High Fens offers special treats such as cottongrass (veenpluis), common sundew (zonnedauw) and arctic starflower with six or seven sepals (zevenster). Also, we were careful not to step on … Continue reading
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Staying close to the stream
March 23rd-24th, 2025, East-Belgium. The signal of spring is discrete: early daffodils start colouring the meadows of the higher valleys while insect-eating birds such as the white-throated dipper and the great yellow wagtail are ready to care for their offsprings.
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Dressed in purple
July 2024, East-Belgium. The purple digitalis purpurea can be seen in large numbers almost everywhere this year, amidst the forest and, most of all, in every clearing or broad path.
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The old mountain
Kelmis (La Calamine), July 11th, 2024. The museum of “Vieille Montagne” or “Altenberg” tells the story of the extraction of zinc from the old mountain. A short stroll from there brings you to the riverbank where the ore was washed … Continue reading
Wild flower time
April, 6-8th, 2024, East of Belgium. This is the moment of the wild flowers covering the bottom of the valleys and the humid meadows. Suddenly, all secret places are filled with people coming to enjoy the natural spectacle.
Tiny and sticky
August 27-28th, 2023, East-Belgium. For the very first time, we managed to spot the red and green leaves of the enigmatic ‘drosera rotundifolia’ amidst the lush and flowering vegetation of the Belgian high moors. The insect-eating plant displays tiny leaves … Continue reading