This video is about marsh gentians in the Netherlands.
From Natuurmonumenten in The Netherlands:
On the Oude Buisse Heide [nature reserve in the southern Netherlands], forest rangers have discovered marsh gentians!
This is a result of the special nature management by Natuurmonumenten in this nature reserve in Noord-Brabant province. …
Since 1978, Natuurmonumenten records which plant species grow at Oude Buisse Heide.
In all those years, marsh gentians were never seen.
In 2002, Natuurmonumenten started with small-scale taking away of heather in various spots.
In this way, rangers removed the upper soil layer containing much dung.
The results came immediately!
The work was rewarded by the appearance of beautiful plants like spatulate-leaved sundew, white beak-sedge, brown beak-sedge, and deergrass.
After the marsh gentians, Natuurmonumenten is waiting for the first alcon blue butterflies, inextricably linked to the marsh gentians. …
In The Netherlands … [marsh gentians] have much declined, and are on the red list of threatened species.
The Oude Buisse Heide is now a nature reserve thanks to Henriëtte Roland Holst (1869-1952).
A famous poetess (one of my inspirations), she was also well-known as a fighter for women’s rights, and in the Dutch and international labour and anti-war movements.
Talking about rare plants: Captain Cook’s scurvy grass in New Zealand.
Alcon blue butterflies of the Hoge Veluwe: here.
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