Crocus July

[Thomas Huber]

Kees, the markings look like 'Snowbunting' but your flowers don't have the
yellowish groundcolour of typical 'Snowbunting'. I guess they aren't a registered
Dutch cultivar (at least none I know), but nevertheless they are beauties!

[t00lie]

Warm and sunny today 15c (winter was a non event , and a number of crocus are are just starting to shine.

Crocus chryanthus snow bunting.

C.chryanthus zwanenburg bronze.
C. gargaricus in a very shady trough.

A couple of plants i should know the name of --umm ....

Finally first flowering of C.abantensis --a lovely little thing --Label says seed x Gothenburg Bot.Garden sown march 07---however most of the plants in the pot are very small non flowering seedlings -- i remember Lesley C. giving me a bulb or two a number of years back which i cannot locate --- maybe i have combined the two pots ,(as sometimes i'm inclined to do).

Cheers Dave.

[Janis Ruksans]

Finally first flowering of C.abantensis --a lovely little thing --Label says seed x Gothenburg Bot.Garden sown march 07---however most of the plants in the pot are very small non flowering seedlings -- i remember Lesley C. giving me a bulb or two a number of years back which i cannot locate --- maybe i have combined the two pots ,(as sometimes i'm inclined to do).

Cheers Dave.

Crocus abantensis blooms from very small corms and it is one of very few species which is far better growing in open garden where form much larger corms. In greenhouse it is too hot for this species. I prefair to grow it in garden, although it is something risky as once I lost it during black frost in winter.
Janis

[t00lie]

Crocus abantensis blooms from very small corms and it is one of very few species which is far better growing in open garden where form much larger corms. In greenhouse it is too hot for this species. I prefair to grow it in garden, although it is something risky as once I lost it during black frost in winter.
Janis

Thank you for that info Janis.
Planted out in the garden they will go then --i have far too many pots anyway --(  sigh ! despite a recent makeover i fear the garden is quickly filling up again ).

Cheers Dave

[Lesley Cox]

Dave I think your purply one with the yellow base is sieberi, probably 'Firefly' or 'Violet Queen' I'm not sure what the difference is between these two. Not sure about the gargaricus either. Isn't that plain yellow? I would have thought Chrys 'Fusco-tinctus' maybe. For years (and still) everything coming in from Holland as 'Zwanenburg Bronze' was 'Fusco-tinctus.' Took me years to find the true form again, with the solid bronze flushing after losing my original van Tubergen imports from 40 years ago.

[t00lie]

Not sure about the gargaricus either. Isn't that plain yellow?

Oops 
Thanks for pointing that out Lesley .

Here is a pic ,(which i omitted earlier), of C.gargaricus in a shady trough  .

Cheers Dave

[Armin]

Dave,
lovely crocus pictures. Particular like yor last image.

[Kees Green]

My crocus look identical to yours Dave. So snow bunting it will be from now on.

[Thomas Huber]

My crocus look identical to yours Dave. So snow bunting it will be from now on.

Sorry for my late reply, havn't been online for weeks now.

Kees, please compare your plant with this photos of the true 'Snowbunting':
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5060.msg138199#new

You will find, that yours is different to 'Snowbunting'