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Vered Libstein poses for a portrait among anemone wildflowers in bloom near Kibbutz Or HaNer in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
February 16, 2024, 10:05 pm
South Israel was filled with blood, death. Brilliant red flowers now bloom among ashes
Vered Libstein founded the festival celebrating the blossoms 19 years ago; her husband, son and mother were all murdered on Oct. 7; ‘Life is stronger than everything,’ she says
By Melanie Lidman
Soldiers drive by anemones at a forest near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on January 21, 2024 (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
January 23, 2024, 3:38 pm
Oblivious to war, Israel’s iconic red anemone blooms again along the Gaza border
The flower is the first of five species of bowl-shaped red blossoms with black centers that bloom one after the other, so as not to compete for pollinating beetles
By Sue Surkes
Flowers bloom along the Cedar Trail in the Jerusalem Forest. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
April 16, 2023, 5:49 pm
Israel’s total rainfall normal, despite dry start; cold promises late floral show
Ecologist recommends hitting southern deserts for a colorful display in mid-May, with rainfall there three times last year’s quantity
By Sue Surkes
People visit blooming lupine flowers on Mitzpetel, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
March 7, 2023, 12:58 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 7: Reservist refusals signal shift; capital lupine hill at risk
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur unpacks the real meaning behind protests from IDF reservists; environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at the Mediterranean two years after tar spill
By ToI Staff
Drone bee orchid, Ophrys holosericea, seen near to the Rakit parking lot in the Carmel mountains, May 7, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel).
May 8, 2022, 6:26 pm
If it looks like a bee and smells like a bee, it may be a flower
In extraordinary example of evolution, bee orchids trick male bees into ‘mating’ with them, to help disperse pollen
By Sue Surkes
Turban buttercup. (Alastair Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
April 28, 2022, 3:21 pm
Spring wildflowers late this year, thanks to historic cold spells in early 2022
Ecologist Avi Shmida says weather conditions led to some profuse blooming, though early bloomers and those in the desert were subpar; climate analyst: Coldest March since 1953
By Sue Surkes
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