Crocus February

[Melvyn Jope]

A very small but beautiful C.biflorus (I think) from Turkey, thank you Arthur.

[Janis Ruksans]

A very small but beautiful C.biflorus (I think) from Turkey, thank you Arthur.

Looks like Crocus pestalozzae. What is colour of stigma?
Janis

[Melvyn Jope]

Thank you Janis, the colour of the stigma is orange.

[Janis Ruksans]

Thank you Janis, the colour of the stigma is orange.

Then it is pestalozzae.
Janis

[tonyg]

A very small but beautiful C.biflorus (I think) from Turkey, thank you Arthur.

It's a beauty for sure.  My first thought was C danfordiae.  To me it does not look so much like pestalozzae which should also have the dark stain at the base of each anther.

[Janis Ruksans]

It's a beauty for sure.  My first thought was C danfordiae.  To me it does not look so much like pestalozzae which should also have the dark stain at the base of each anther.

You are right, it is danfordiae. Pestalozzae allways has black stain at base of anthers. When I put my comment I wanted to ask you for inside picture, but...
Now I enlarged your picture and pattern of petals colour is different, too. Sorry for mistake.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Today we have outside only minus 3 C, so I opened cover on crocuses to check autumn crocuses and their leaves. A lot still tried to bloom under cover. I took off flowers from laevigatus, boryi, melantherus, caspius, hadriaticus, aleppicus and few others. At present plantings looks better than last year. Much less mould on plants, but it took some hours to check them all. Most difficult is to find specimens where some part of flower tube left and now it is covered by botrytis or Fusarium nivale. Spring crocuses still are sleeping. Even alatavicus and korolkowii didn't show shoots. From michelsonii only cultivar ODYSSEY showed tips of shoots and one of Iranian biflorus stocks, too. Not bad! Still at least month of real winter here ahead. By weather broadcast temperature must to drop to minus 25 C.
Janis

[Melvyn Jope]

Thank you Tony and Janis for advising on its identity.

[Alex]

Warmer here than in Latvia! Debatable whether this is a good thing or not as all the Spring flowering spp. are coming through and flowering now on etiolated stems as Winter light is so poor (in my garden, anyway).

A couple of non-etiolated ones from yesterday: C. cvijicii (I removed some dead flowers but obviously left one, sorry!) and C. adanensis.

Alex

[Alex]

P.S. Janis, is there any news on when your catalogue will be out?

Thanks,

Alex

[Armin]

Alex,
I like your potful C. adanensis

First crocus buds springing up in my meadow, too. But no sunshine to open them.

[Janis Ruksans]

P.S. Janis, is there any news on when your catalogue will be out?

Thanks,

Alex

Hope that it will come out next week. Now you can receive only text part as word document by special request. I had surgical treatment on my right hands palm (Dipidren disease/viking finger) and it was not easy to work on computer and I lost my line at printing company, so now I'm waiting when will be some "hole". I hope this week will start printing process.
Janis

[ian mcenery]

Nice show Alex

[Tony Willis]

Alex nice cvijicii,mine are not even through yet.

[Susan Owl]

I had surgical treatment on my right hands palm (Dipidren disease/viking finger) and it was not easy to work on computer

I hope you will be fine again soon.