Crocus December 2015

[Janis Ruksans]

And another one from "last" donation from HKEP - again pictures from last spring - Crocus akdagensis

[krisderaeymaeker]

Again some rare beautys Janis !!!!! 

[ruben]

Very nice crocusses Janis! Thanks for shearing!

[Anthony Darby]

Didn't expect to see my first crocus from seed in December! Crocus serotinus.

[ruben]

Nice to see the autumn flowering ones Anthony :-d

Here some of the biflorus comples in flower

Crocus biflorus ssp. pseudonubigena KPPZ 108
Crocus biflorus ssp. pulchricolor BM 8514
Crocus biflorus ssp. pulchricolor - collection by Tony Willis (thanks) in Ulu dag Turkije

[ruben]

Crocus sieberii ssp. atticus
Crocus sieberii ssp. atticus 'Bowles White'
Crocus sieberii ssp. atticus 'Hubert Edelsten'
Crocus fleischeri chios form

[Maggi Young]

I just love those crazy styles on the C. fleischeri!

[Janis Ruksans]

Here started frost. Now outside is minus 7 C and just after new year offered minus 20. All the day passed covering greenhouse plantings. Tomorrow will cover pots with crocuses. There is needed some freezing before covering - to keep low temperature when will start some warming after first frost wave.

But otherwise all free time goes on books, studies on collected material. Today with kindest help of Ibrahim was identified another my crocus gathering from 2007. It turned another species from just published new crocus of HKEP - Crocus salurdagensis. It is reported as plant from Salur Dag but internet shows only one Salur Dag in Antalya Province, close to Antalya, certainly not locality of my gathering. After Ibrahims mail to me I checked on more detailed map locality where I collected this one - and on this (rarely used by me map) I found another Salur Dag - side by side with homeland of my crocus. It was grown by me as "atrospermus affinitas" due its blackish brown seeds. Now I compared my notes and they perfectly match with new species. Here some pictures - I collected it at very start of blooming few days after late snowfall and found very few plants and even less were successfully pictured due extremely cold and strong wind. So here are attached habitat photo, two pictures from wild and my pot with it where you can see variability of Crocus salurdagensis.

[WimB]

Spring has sprung....

Crocus chrysanthus 'Goldene Sonne'
Crocus fleischeri
Crocus hartmannianus (2 x)
and Crocus korolkowii 'Mountain Glory'

[WimB]

Crocus michelsonii
and Crocus michelsonii LEE408

[YT]

Crocus michelsonii started to bloom here, too.

[Matt T]

It's great to see so many spring Crocus already giving a good display on the continent. Unlike the rest of the UK and Europe, my bulbs are behaving and some are actually later than usual. These photos build the anticipation for spring when it does arrive here...I can already notice the days lengthening!

[Janis Ruksans]

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone forumist and many new and beautiful crocus flowers in coming spring and year! It will come and I hope that some of your early runners will alive coming frosts. Here this night was "only" minus 16 C. When on Tuesday I finished covering my pots in greenhouses, was around zero and I was afraid that I too hurried, but in following night temperature dropped to minus 11, and it is offered to even lower temperatures in coming days. I'm really happy that only very few spring crocuses started blooming (less than in previous two years). Hope that frost will loose power reaching W Europe.

[udo]

To these wishes I would like to join, for very flowery 2016.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Agree with Dirk and Janis ....

With a lot of sunny spots .....

(flowering here today .....)