Crocus December 2010

[krisderaeymaeker]

Breathtaking pics, Fred!
It must be fantastic to find this jewels in such dry conditions!

I agree with Hans .......  

[Gerry Webster]

Fred - Many thanks for showing C. moabiticus which, in  the wild, looks very good. I have seen it twice in cultivation where it was not at all impressive - rather miserable looking in fact. I suspect it is difficult to cultivate well.
Perhaps it is worth pointing out that there are forms of C. cartwrightianus which are virtually indistinguishable from C. moabiticus & very easy to grow.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Stunning plants and pictures Fred !!! 

[BULBISSIME]

Thank's all for kind comments 
Miriam and Gerhard, I prefer C. baytopiorum and C. mathewii...
Gerry, as always, plants looks better in the wild and it's also easier to get good pictures of them when in their natural environment.

[Oron Peri]

Fred,
Stunning photos!!!Defiantly plants look better in the wild but you need also  a good photographer

Oron, I have a passage climate between mediterranian and terresrial so I don't have realy cold winter in this case, many of my spring bloomer plants which come from Mediterranean coast usualy bloom in late autumn. But for my native plants around Istanbul region they bloom in february!
  Yes, my C. graveolens and C. r. hittiticus they are from Içel (or Mersin) - Silifke. But this crocusses in their native habitations they bloom in february. but for sure in low altitute they can bloom earler then higher altitute. C. graveolens has a large distribution. It is posible to see this plant in Center and East Taurus mountains.

Ibrahim thank you so much for this information,
i must go and visit that area at this time of year.

[Janis Ruksans]

My observations showed that specimens of same spacies planted in garden side by side keeps their blooming sequence in nature - samples from low altitudes even in garden blooms earlier than plants of same species but from high altitudes.
Janis

[Rafa]

I'm agree Oron, fortunately Fred was in the right place and moment. C. moabiticus..

[Graeme Strachan]

Happy New Year.
       
I looked out into my garden today and spotted a patch of blue. I was intrigued and discovered a clump of crocus speciosus that must have come out after the snowfalls we have been having since the end of November. The clump has been in my garden for a few years and has always flowered at the usual time, however I was disappointed in October when only a few of them flowered. I was indeed surprised to find the rest have flowered so late. Very strange indeed.

           Graeme Strachan

[Maggi Young]

Well, that's a surprise, Graeme. Poor wee souls, all bunched up under all that snow.... it's a wonder they are even recognisable for crocus at all after that ordeal.

Have you seen this thread? http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6195.0     lots of lovely flowers from autumn to chher us!

[mark smyth]

many spring flowerers in my collection now with noses showing well. I expect flowers soon if the snow and ice stays away

[Janis Ruksans]

Happy New Year.
       
I looked out into my garden today and spotted a patch of blue. I was intrigued and discovered a clump of crocus speciosus that must have come out after the snowfalls we have been having since the end of November. The clump has been in my garden for a few years and has always flowered at the usual time, however I was disappointed in October when only a few of them flowered. I was indeed surprised to find the rest have flowered so late. Very strange indeed.

           Graeme Strachan

I suppose that very hot and dry summer delayed normal blooming time of several Crocuses. Here few even only started when real winter came and I didn't see normal blooming of them.
Janis