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Meadow flowers during the Festival in Bohinj.
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Mountain avens (Dryas octopetala).
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Festival Workshop on edible wild flowers.
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Scree slopes above Bohinj with Potentilla nitida, known locally as the Triglav rose.
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alpinum subsp. ernesti-mayeri) and the mountains around Bohinj.
Like all community-led initiatives the Bohinj International Wild Flower
Festival would not work without partnerships. It is the close involvement of local people which particularly adds colour and vitality to the wide range of activities held under the festival banner. Turizem Bohinj, the local tourism development organisation and group responsible for managing the festivals, makes a huge effort to make sure no local people or group is excluded and the range of partnerships extends from local bee-keepers to arts and theatre groups, village women’s groups, schools and kindergartens, children’s activity groups, local tourism business associations, local village associations, farmers, and of course, local residents. None of this would be possible without a range of funding partners including Slovene Government Ministries, Bohinj Municipality, The Triglav National Park and a number of tourism businesses all of whom recognise the benefits the Festival can deliver. And let’s not forget the occasional Scottish visitors to Bohinj! Your author will be celebrating 30 years of visiting Slovenia in September 2012 and has no intention of missing the annual celebrations of Bohinj’s wild flower wonders. I would highly recommend that you all visit the Bohinj International Wild Flower Festival but have to declare a huge bias here. In Bohinj I am referred to as ‘Oce za festivala’ (Father of the Festival) and it is natural to be very proud of your children. Mind you I am more often called ‘Nori Skot’ (The crazy Scotsman) which I think is a much more deserved title! For information on the Bohinj International Wild Flower Festival and the 2012 programme visit
www.bohinj.si/alpskocvetje
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