Crocus October 2013

[tonyg]

I love crocus, too! Ok I'll start my first official post (second really because the first was a seed request) with my little crocus which have been blooming for a week. I lost the label to the wind since last year so I'm not sure what they are, could you help me there too? I might have planted ligusticus around there but it looks  different to me...

Welcome!!
Your crocus is Crocus speciosus.
Try re-sizing your images before posting.  700 x 500 or something around that size looks best on the screen 

[Maggi Young]

Happiness is .......

Crocus mathewii 

You'll get no argument from me there, Tony!

Good to have you join our happy band of Croconuts,  fenius. 

[ashley]

Here my first flower on karduchorum raised from JJA seed from 2010. Not a good flower and a bit dishevelled but I am pleased.

Very nice Ian.  It's flowering here too for the first time, from a Jan 2010 sowing (RRW 09-175 via JJA). 

Several flowers have appeared sporadically over the last month or so rather than together, but I've been tickling them in hope of a seed set.

[ian mcenery]

A quick result and it looks super.  I also flowered this for the first time this year.

Thanks Tony and Yes it was quick I also sowed in 2011 as well and there are seedlings from that sowing too but I didn't expect a flower yet. Nice mathewii but they are not showing here yet and it certainly hasn't been a success story with me so far.

Very nice Ian.  It's flowering here too for the first time, from a Jan 2010 sowing (RRW 09-175 via JJA). 

Several flowers have appeared sporadically over the last month or so rather than together, but I've been tickling them in hope of a seed set.

Thanks Ashley this is the first flower here but all of my crocus seem very late compared with what others have been showing.

[pehe]

Here my first flower on karduchorum raised from JJA seed from 2010. Not a good flower and a bit dishevelled but I am pleased.

Lucky you Ian! I will have to wait 3-4 years as I have just sown the seeds, that I got from the seed exchange.

Poul

[ian mcenery]

Lucky you Ian! I will have to wait 3-4 years as I have just sown the seeds, that I got from the seed exchange.

Poul

Poul you are lucky to get seed it's not an easy plant to find. Good luck with germination

[I.S.]

And Here is mine C. karduchorum,
It is very nice one with dark vains but pity it is a hybrid one too!
C. karduchorum x cappadocicus
With my best wishes to all croconuts...

[Otto Fauser]

  Ibrahim  , what an exciting and handsome hybrid  !!!. Also I am very pleased that Crocus fauseri has germinated and I may yet see it in flower in 3-4 years .

[de.da.]

a dark speciosus...

also speciosus

speciosus group under the apple tree...

Cr. cancellatus ssp.cancellatus

I am waiting for open blooms.
Daniel

[ian mcenery]

And Here is mine C. karduchorum,
It is very nine one with dark vains but pity it is a hybrid one too!
C. karduchorum x cappadocicus
With my best wishes to all croconuts...

Lovely crocus Ibrahim 

[de.da.]

jippiiiiee...




Daniel

[Mike Ireland]

Could do with help identifying these two crocus.  Thanks in advance.

[udo]

Hi Mike,
picture 1, Crocus ligusticus (medius) with virus
    ''      2, Crocus pulchellus 'Zephyr'

Here some flowers this weekend:

Crocus asumaniae, pure white form
    ''      goulimyi
    ''      ligusticus 'Millesimo'
    ''      mathewii

[udo]

and more,

Crocus hadriaticus x sativus, the F1 cross
    ''               ''               ''     , the best F2 cross ;

What's all this? A Crocus kotschyanus without stem? After short search the cause is certain.

[pehe]

and more,

Crocus hadriaticus x sativus, the F1 cross
    ''               ''               ''     , the best F2 cross ;

What's all this? A Crocus kotschyanus without stem? After short search the cause is certain.

What a nasty little beast! Did it eat the corm too?

Do you know what it is?
I have similar ones in my garden, but I have never seen them eat crocus, only other small plants, mostly in my vegetable garden. I do not hope that they get taste for crocus or other bulbs!

Poul