Crocus January 2008

[Thomas Huber]

You know that I also plant everything in baskets and I can promise:
You will need much more than 50!! I don't know exactly how many I have
but I guess I will reach 500 this year!

[mark smyth]

and I thought I had a pot collection!

[Paul T]

Thomas,

I realise that with the Crocus and Iris retics alone I would be over the 50 different varieties, but I am not sure how many I'll actually be able to fit in the garden until I have it put together.

Mark,

I have approximately 3000 pots, give or take a few hundred.  I've never actually individually counted them, just counted part and worked it out over approximate area.  At least once I have the crocus etc into their baskets in the ground I will have that many less pots to have to keep an eye one!! 

[mark smyth]

3000! OMG. I working to a goal so I only a minimum in pots but after someone emailed me Janis' 2008 catalogue this morning it will not be 2009.

[annew]

Thomas I was not complaining! I think I did very well getting an extra bonus!

[Thomas Huber]

Anne, I realised that it wasn't a complain, but I don't like the thought that I've sent wrong plants to friends 

[Andrew]

I get a catalogue from Janis every year provided I ordered the previous year.

Martin, if you ordered last year, have you received a catalogue yet ?

[Martin Baxendale]

I get a catalogue from Janis every year provided I ordered the previous year.

Martin, if you ordered last year, have you received a catalogue yet ?

Not yet, but I've had a free catalogue every year for the last 5 or more years, provided I've sent a decent-size order, which I have done everyh year.

[ashley]

Evidently they were posted yesterday.

[Anthony Darby]

I didn't order last year, but am tempted by that wierd tulip with the corrugations, if it has come down in price?

[ashley]

T. regelii?  Unfortunately he doesn't list it at all this year Anthony, corrugated, expensive or otherwise   
Does anyone know of a seed source?

Ashley

[Anthony Darby]

Aw shucks.

[Tony Willis]

some more in flower today
crocus sieberi greece parnassus cr122
 crocus veluchensis greece olympus cr251
 crocus favus turkey kandira cr108
 crocus biflorus alexandri greece falakro cr433

[David Nicholson]

David there is a PDF link that has all pages, at the very top. What I posted was html version so you don't need acrobat reader to browse. The pages are cut off also in the html version, you can't see prices. I didn't notice this, since I just had clicked on the PDF link. Must be when google converts the file to html, it loses some data.

Heres  link to acrobat reader download.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Thanks Guff, I'm sorted now.

[David Nicholson]

Thomas,

Actually, nothing you can see in that picture will be planted into that garden.  Only things in the garden will be the Crocus, Iris retics and Narcissus bulbocodium/romieuxii types.  part of the mess you can see there is actually a collection of deceased pots..... whose soil will be recycled as part of the new garden.  I picked up 50 small round baskets from a supplier today to plant the bulbs in within the garden, but I'd imagine I am going to need to get more of them once I start planting everything and realise just how much I have!! 

At least now you'll all believe me next time I say that things are a mess at my place.  The gardens themselves are fine, it's just the pots that are full of weeds etc.  Unfortunately for so much of my collection the pots are actually easier to monitor watering on..... as there is no root competition from the gum trees, magnolias and maples etc in the garden.

Not a mess at all, go for it mate