Flora of the Ljubljana Botanical Garden

 

Ljubljana Botanical Gardens established by Franc Hladnik as a second home of a great many plants in Slovenia. Within 2 years since 1810, 766 different species had been planted by Franc Hladnik. On March 30, 2012, Slovenia Post issued the stamp set features the plants of this garden, which connected with Hladnik. The issue comprises of three postage stamps and one souvenir sheet.

 

The stamp of 0.40 EUR, presented Fleischmann’s Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa var. fleischmanni). This plant is a variety of the common parsnip. Felischmann discovered this species at Ljubljana Castle between 1819 and 1840. Then transplanted by him into garden, results the plants remains to the presents day.

Solčavsko – Three Valleys in Harmony

 

Slovenia Post  continue to release  the Tourism series with stamps featuring destinations and areas in Slovenia that have won the title of European Destination of Excellence (EDEN) in the competition organized by the European Commission. In 2009 Slovenia was represented in the European competition by the Solčavsko district, which took first place in the national competition to choose the country's EDEN entry. On March 30, 2012, they issue one stamp depicted the Solčavsko district.

 

 

The Solčavsko district consists of three remarkable valleys (hence the official tourist slogan in the title) surrounded by the peaks of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the Karavanke. These valleys are: Robanov Kot, Matkov Kot and Logarska Dolina.

Goričko Regional Park

 

Slovenia Post promote regularly their national park through media postage stamps on May 25 , 2012, they issued one souvenir sheet consists of one stamp that features Goričko Regional Park and have background image of flora fauna inhabit in the park.

 
 

Goričko Regional Park is  the Slovene part of a three-nation park comprising Õrség National Park in Hungary and Raab National Park in Austria. The park takes its name from the gorice, the local word for the little hills that long ago emerged at the bottom of the Pannonian Sea.

Goričko Regional Park covers an area of 462 km2, reaching just 418 metres above sea level at its highest point, yet it offers views of the three-nation park area, which has always been a meeting point of cultures and peoples.  This area features wetlands and wet meadows, fields producing a variety of cultures, forests, an intricate network of waterways, lakes and ponds, low hills and vineyards.

Secovlje Salina Nature Park

Slovenia Post has issued the single stamp set features their nature park, Secovlje Salina National Park on November 25, 2011. The stamp shows a salt harvester in modern clothing with a traditional salt-harvesting tool called a “gavero” in Slovene.

Secovlje Salina National Park is a preserved of the unique salt-making landscape of 650 ha area in Slovenia. The harmony of man and nature is presented in this area and marked by the centuries-old method of harvesting salt. In the past 700 years, the only thing that has changed in the Secovlje salina is the salt makers clothing, which depicted in the image on stamp.

Salt is produced in the traditional manner at the northernmost salt works in the Mediterranean, using classical salt-making techniques and tools with  result  the wonderful taste and exceptional qualities .

The Lovrenc lakes on Pohorje

 

Slovenia Post issued the stamp featured The Lovrenc lakes on March 27, 2009.

The Lovrenc lakes, the largest high swampland in Slovenia and one of the most important in Southern Europe, are a specially protected part of the largest Slovenian Forest Reserve Ribnica-Lovrenc lakes. The tiny lakes are situated on the ridge in water sources of Radolnja, Mislinja and Velka and present a natural and tourist site of special interest on Pohorje.

The swampland was formed as a mineral swamp on a corrugated impermeable surface. With the accumulation of peat, the marshes turned into a high swampland, which developed 8000 years ago. The lakes are true bogs, which were formed as erosion surfaces, since the ground of all lakes is progressing to peat. The swampland has no surface inflow. It is fed exclusively by surface water; therefore, the number of lakes is variable (11 to 22), depending on the volume and durability of standing water.

The vegetation of high swamplands is rare and specific. One of the the typical plants of the high swampland is the rotund-leaf-form sundew (Drosera Rotundifolia), a vulnerable species, which is indicated on the stamp of the first day. It is a plant with small, white blossoms on approximately 10 cm-long stems; it has superiorly adapted to the life in peat swampland ground. It is a carnivorous plant and gains organic substances from bodies of smaller insects, which are being caught by sticky hair on its leaves.

Source of the topographic map, which is indicated on the stamp: Public Information Slovenia, © Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, National Topographic Map.