Crocus January 2008

[David Nicholson]

Janis Ruksans 2008 catalog
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:xrGM2qisjKwJ:www.remarc.com/craig/images/2008ruksans.pdf+heuffelianus+Wildlife&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18&gl=us

Guff, your Link to Janis Ruksan's catalogue provides only the first 30 pages??

[Guff]

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

[Anthony Darby]

I had to bring Crocus vitelinus into the kitchen lonight to get it to open.

[Andrew]

Ian and Diane when did you plant your C. gargaricus and how many ?

This is my C. gargaricus ssp. herbertii



Not much different from the type I hear you say, so in the interests of science (please do not try this at home ), this is what it looks like under ground.



Hopefully you can see the stolons and this is ssp. gargaricus for comparison.



In three years this has never increased, has your's Thomas ?
Staying on the yellow theme,



C. flavus ssp. dissectus

[Thomas Huber]

Andrew, I can't give an answer - will have to check your ssp gargaricus in my garden!

[mark smyth]

wow they blue really sets off the orange.

Anthony I like the feint stippling on the back of your Crocus

[annew]

I'm delighted to have Hubert Edelsten at last, (thank you Thomas!), but he has brought along a little friend! Do you know who it is, Thomas?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I don't want to speak for Thomas, but his friend does seem related, doesn't he - I bet he's sieberi as well...

Hubert is a real cracker, isn't he !

[Thomas Huber]

I'm very sorry, Anne, but this is (yes, Luc!) sieberi ssp atticus, which was planted
beneath Hubert Edelsten in my bed, before I replanted them in the rockgarden
two years ago. Seems like there was a tiny atticus corm which has now
reached flowering size. Will send you another true Hubert this summer!!!

[Paul T]

Hubert Edelsten is a wonderful plant.  I was given a tiny little offset a few years ago by my friend Lyn here in Canberra and it is now up to full sized and flowering each year.  I hope for offsets one of these years but it doesn't offset much at all in our climate it seems (Lyn was generous and gave me her only tiny offset after a number of years from 3 mature bulbs).  I just love it!!!

Thomas and David (I think?) asked me to post pics of the area that is to be my Crocus garden....... well here they are.  The (front) shot is taken standing next to the front of the car, and the (back) shot is taken standing next to the white pots with the citrus trees in them in front of the garage.  The garden (raised a single sleeper) will extend from just behind the large red pot at the front to just behind where the 2 white buckets are sitting (or if you're looking at the (back) shot the garden will extend to just in front of the white buckets in that picture).  The buckets incidentally are used to grow tropical waterlilies, so I can move them under the eaves in winter to protect them.  The garden will start next to those green and brown pots sitting on the concrete, and the other edge will be just near the bell jar you can see in the top middle of the (back) picture.  Thats 2.4m from front to back and 1.8m side to side.

See..... I told you it was a mess!! 

 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I'm learning Thomas, I'm learning ... 

[ian mcenery]

Andrew I haven't and as I only have a couple won't disturb ssp gargaricus until it goes dormant but I posted a little disaster back in 2006 after the squirrels dug up ssp herbertii and on the picture you can clearly see the stolons. In my garden ssp gargaricus is also larger but that could just be soil and location. The link should take to the correct page in the old forum

http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/5012/23568.html#POST12715

[ian mcenery]

Just remenbered My Hubert is flowering  - thanks Thomas

[Thomas Huber]

Ian I hope yours is true!!!

Paul, you didn't overact - but do you have room for all the plants in these pots
when your new bed is finished??? I don't think you can plant them all there!

[Paul T]

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.