Primavera has arrived!

Today was a wonderful day in Florence. Museums were open for free for all women and people enjoyed the spring air and the sun rays in piazza della Repubblica.

well, it's not Primavera yet but the air is warming up and the flowers in the gardens are ready to bloom. Here  is a shot from my garden: crocus sativus, used since centuries for the precious saffron, the princes and knights food...because its stigmas made food look like gold.

You can easily find them in the forest or historical gardens ...but hurry up, or you will have to wait for the next primavera...

Camelias near Florence

DID YOU KNOW...?

There is a place, close to Florence, where Camellia's plants grow as shrubs and trees in February and March as you were in East Asian. Come and visit two rural villages in the beautiful Tuscan countryside, Sant'Andrea and Pieve di Compito (in the municipality of Capannori), where among typical stone houses, pinewoods, olive groves  and a gurgling stream you can follow the Camellia's Path during the wonderful Ancient Camellia's of Lucchesia Show that takes place in March 2011. Introduced during the XIX century, several different species of this evergreen plant have been successfully cultivated thanks to the warm-humid climate of these hills . So a great variety of Camellias  (single petal, semi-double, double flower, anemone form and peony form flower) with their showy white, red, pink, jellow, or variegated blossoms such as the  Camellia  japonica (common camellia) or the C. crysanta, C. sasanqua, the C. oleifera  and the newly cultivated  C. sinensis for tea show themselves  to botanists, art historians and flower enthusiasts.

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