Orchids and Sedums and Trebuchets, OH MY!
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Kalmar (AKA home this week)
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Site first occupied around 100 AD
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Traction Trebuchet
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Miniature Plants of the Alvar Plain
A dry place with fossiliferous limestone, a very short growing season
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shallow soil
and tiny Orchids
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and other tiny flowers, too. Found a geranium 2mm across in full bloom.
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Stockholm