Javorniski Rovt is a small mountain village in the Karavanke mountain range above the town of Jesenice in northwestern Slovenia, near the Austrian border.
Every spring in the month of May, the meadows around the village get covered in a beautiful white blanket of daffodils. It is really an incredible sight to see all the meadows turn almost completely white. Many visitors and photographers come here to enjoy this magical view, and to snap a photo or two!
Every spring in the month of May, Javorniski Rovt gets covered in a beautiful white blanket of daffodils. (photo: Bostjan Hribar)
White wild-growing daffodils (Narcissus poeticus) are also known as the poet’s daffodil, poet’s narcissus, nargis, pheasant’s eye, findern flower or pinkster lily. (photo: Bostjan Hribar)
Each spring, something magical happens in Javorniski Rovt above the industrial Slovenian town of Jesenice. Many of the normally lush green meadows turn almost completely snow-white. (photo: Bostjan Hribar)
The beautiful white blossoms of wild-growing daffodils. (photo: Bostjan Hribar)
The flower is extremely fragrant, with a ring of tepals in pure white and a short corona of light yellow with a distinct reddish edge. (photo: Bostjan Hribar)
The picking of daffodils in Javorniski Rovt is forbidden by law. (photo: Leon Vidic)
May is the best time to visit Javorniski Rovt, which is covered in white in May, but not with snow; with blooming daffodils. (photo: Leon Vidic)
A special spring experience is the image of Javorniski Rovt, a small mountain village in the Karavanke mountain range, which is covered with white blooming daffodils. (photo: Leon Vidic)
Locals call these ‘kljucavnice’, which means ‘locks’ in Slovenian. According to legend, God became very angry when he saw that bees were collecting nectar on Sundays. Therefore, he installed locks on the daffodil flowers that prevented the bees from accessing the nectar on that day, and gave the flowers their name. (photo: Leon Vidic)
Narcissus poeticus is native to central and southern Europe from Spain, France through Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia to Croatia, Greece and Ukraine. (photo: Leon Vidic)
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