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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #150 on: February 11, 2011, 03:51:54 PM »
Michael,
congratulation for the excellent growth and photos of 'George'. Simply 'amazing' :o

Ibrahim,
you outpace yourself from posting to posting. Wow! :o 8)
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #151 on: February 11, 2011, 04:50:41 PM »
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Graeme, such wonderful C. reticulatus!
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very nice form and a pot ful.  I would be happy mine in the garden would bulk up and flower one day like yours! 
WimB and Armin - Thank you They are certainly floriforous - Fourteen flowers from 3 corms can be seen so far.

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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #152 on: February 11, 2011, 05:29:12 PM »
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Graeme, such wonderful C. reticulatus!
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very nice form and a pot ful.  I would be happy mine in the garden would bulk up and flower one day like yours! 
WimB and Armin - Thank you They are certainly floriforous - Fourteen flowers from 3 corms can be seen so far.

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Show me the snowdrop that can equal that level of flower power!  ;)
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #153 on: February 11, 2011, 06:23:48 PM »
Quote from: Michael J Campbell on February 11, 2011, 01:42:27 PM
Crocus sieberi George.

Michael, that is wonderful. I don't suppose it's generally available is it?
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #154 on: February 11, 2011, 06:34:22 PM »
Graham,I got that one from Janis,it is in the 2011 catalogue.
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #155 on: February 11, 2011, 11:59:37 PM »
Two pics of Crocus biflorus ssp melatherus 'spring flowering form'.  Collected as seed 11 years ago by Steeve Keeble, this form always flowers after Christmas with the early spring crocus.
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #156 on: February 12, 2011, 12:14:19 AM »
Some Crocus sieberi.  I notice 'George' is a fine new cultivar which I must obtain.  This species has many variations all of which do well here.  Raising them from home produced seed only serves to increase the variety.
It has not been a good spring for crocus here.  Sun has been in very short supply while the mild weather has encouraged rather lax growth, flowers tending to flop.  I have had to water too, usually the pots get a good pre-Christmas soaking before being covered as the flowers start.  This winter it was so cold that I covered at the end of November and by mid January, after the thaw, things looked rather dry.  This week I removed the covers to let the rain give the pots a really thorough watering. 
Crocus sieberi ssp sieberi has almost infinite varaition in its purple outer markings, raising them from seed produces some oddities.  Here one is white with a slightly creamy outer petal while another has pale purple inner petals.
Crocus sieberi ssp atticus is not always as striking as the specimen illustrated.
Crocus sieberi ssp sublimis often produces large flowers with outers often slightly darker than inners.  These raised from seed collected by Marcus Harvey are similar to those found on Mt Parnassos.  They have a passing resemblance to C vernus but the yellow throat makes this a sieberi.
Crocus sieberi ssp nivalis has proved elusive here.  I am not sure that I have ever grown the real thing.  This seedling from home seed bears the name but is a sieberi hybrid.  It is twice the size of most of my sieberi flowers and unusually coloured.  I wonder if the others in the pot are the same ... and will it be as good next year?!
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #157 on: February 12, 2011, 03:18:47 PM »
Tony, very nice and colorfull sieberi forms. I also afraid from hibritation because there are lots of honey bees are flying all arounds. I am thinking to cover with a net, with a tag forbidden to bees! 
  But some times I wish to see the variations of specieses too.
 
  Here a few pics from wild taken this week.
C. biflorus adamii top view.
C. biflorus alexandrii some interesting forms
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #158 on: February 12, 2011, 03:48:42 PM »
  Here is my C. biflorus puctatus or what I think It is!
It is very lightly speckled and a creamy view. It is not from known punctatus location but from same region.

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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #159 on: February 12, 2011, 05:08:18 PM »
Lovely pics Tony and Ibrahim.

One of mine-Crocus biflorus 'Fairy'-just short of a bit of sun to open it.

« Last Edit: February 13, 2011, 10:22:36 AM by David Nicholson »
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #160 on: February 12, 2011, 05:56:09 PM »
David,
a very nice clump of C. biflorus 'Fairy' ;)  :D
Is the blue taint really such strong ? - I have it more paler in memory.

Ibrahim,
the variation of ssp. alexandrii is quite interesting and surprising.
I wouldn't hold off any bees from cross pollination. The more seeds the more nice hybrid surprise one can expect a couple of years later.

TonyG,
lovely sieberi ssp. . The atticus is my personal favourite - perfect flower, strong orange-yellow center and nicely fine lines inside!
The spring flowering C. biflorus ssp. melantherus is very beautiful feathered!
« Last Edit: February 12, 2011, 06:16:03 PM by Armin »
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #161 on: February 12, 2011, 07:28:56 PM »
Some Crocus form the greenhouse today: Crocus paschei, C. aerius, C. heuffelianus 'Carpathian Wonder' and a C. cvijicii which has caught the sun to give a rather nice effect, I think.

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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #162 on: February 12, 2011, 11:55:00 PM »
 Alex, wonderfull crocuses! specialy C. heuffelianus.

 Here is a crocus which surprised me completely! I found this two years ago but that time the weather was awfull the flowers were closed and couldn't made picture. Last year also they did not flower but this year when I see them I couldn't believe to my eyes.  :o :o
  I will try to explain why but I wish to see the idea of other crocus experts...
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #163 on: February 13, 2011, 10:22:00 AM »
Quote from: Armin on February 12, 2011, 05:56:09 PM
David,
a very nice clump of C. biflorus 'Fairy' ;)  :D
Is the blue taint really such strong ? - I have it more paler in memory.


Ooops. Thanks for that Armin, that's what it says on the label too.  ;D I will do a quick bit of editing.

The blue colour is quite deep particularly on the less well developed flowers.
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Re: Crocus February 2011
« Reply #164 on: February 13, 2011, 02:36:01 PM »
From yesterday today is pretty miserable here rain and cold

C antalyensis
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