Grape Hyacinth (Muscari armeniacum)

Helsinki Botanical 10.5.2002

Wow, I love this photo. Was the color of the photo enhanced? If not, I would love to have Muscari this color. Is it a particular cultivar?

Great photo!!!

Don't know the cultivar... and I have done nothing for the photo. :)

I did not see this photo wow so beautiful and good to see you post here. Does it has scent?

Hmm, don't know.. I guess they have a kind of faint scent.

Lovely blooms and photo :)

I believe that is the prettiest Muscari I've ever seen! Beautiful photo, Evert.

Lovely blooms, is this from your garden?

kaleem

I don't remember, the botanical garden I suppose.

I was a bit worried about you Evert, because I know your family likes to travel and I thought during the Christmas Holidays you might have gone on a trip. I'm glad you were not in Sri Lanka or any of the areas affected by the sunamis..

Well, we almost ordered a trip to Thailand for January but I wanted to go somewhere else so we choosed The Gambia. I'm glad of my decision now.. We will leave on Feb 18th.

thank goodness you didn't go to Thailand. We can get the impression, from television reports, that there was just one big wave, but apparently many. And I misspelled, it's Tsunami.

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Here it's a big thing, the biggest loss of Finnish people in the time of peace.. And even bigger in Sweden. We had a national sorrow day yesterday all over Norden at least.

What do you mean by "Norden"? Is it the area of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland that we refer to as Scandinavia?

Yes, exactly.. + Iceland, Faroe Islands.
But.. Switzerland?? No.. It's far away from here. :/

Finland is actually not a part of Scandinavia, but it's ok to call the area Scandinavia. Norden is a Swedish expression that is sometimes used in English as well. In Finnish it would be "Pohjola or Pohjoismaat" :)

Now I'm getting my European map out. I hate not knowing where places are. Geography has always been fun to me.

:)