From Kopitoto to Momina Skala on Vitosha, the mountain south of Sofia, a short distance but an encyclopaedia of flowers.

Meadow vetchling (pea), cicely (celery), the ethereal willowherb, the incredibly named perennial honesty (as a race we should adopt this flower), spotted dead-nettle, tansy chrysanthemum, dusky crane’s-bill, heal-all (mint), spreading bellflower, water forget-me-not, bladder campion, great masterwort (onion), sulphur clover, winged broom, Breckland thyme (mint, the butterflies were crazy about this one), bloody crane’s-bill, starwort, great mullein, bush vetch (pea), alpine rose. Incalculable wealth at our feet.