1. Snow gentians and trumpet gentians (1), with their vivid-blue petals, carpet slopes well above the tree line.

2. 11 We picked gentians and edelweiss in Kashmir and hibiscus and bougainvillaea in our own garden.

3. There are so many more beautiful flowers–teal colored gentians, Bistorts, arctic wintergreen, saxifrages–the list goes on and on

4. In spring and summer, the Dwingelderveld heaths are transformed into a multicolored carpet made up of many flowering plants, including blue marsh gentians, pink bog heather, and yellow bog asphodels.