Crocus February 2014

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin

the colour is true.There are lots of natural hybrids with Crocus chrysanthus on Ulu Dag several of which I have shown previously.They are very variable in colour.

Yes, I remember you showing pics of wild chrysanthus x biflorus  hybrids. Didn't remember  that any of them involved pulchricolor. Must search for them and have another look. I was thinking of deliberate hybridisation in cultivation. To get that deep, deep blue into some strong garden hybrids would really be something - maybe crossed with some of the blue chrysanthus x biflorus garden hybrids that set seed. Must check back with Thomas Huber's chrysanthus hybrid pages to remind myself which blues are fertile. 

Just checked and, as I thought I remembered, 'Zenith' is fertile. 'Zenith' x pulchricolor might produce something rather nice.

[ebbie]

Crocuses outdoors and in my alpine house:
-Crocus chrysanthus 'Uschak Orange'
-Crocus imperati ssp. imperati 'De Jager’
-Crocus danfordiae
-Crocus gargaricus

[ebbie]

Crocus sieberi ssp.sieberi from Omalos, Crete.

[udo]

Schöne Bilder ebbie, besonders natürlich der sieberi.
Here some flowers today,
Crocus bornmuelleri
    ''      napolitanus

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A couple from the garden today :

C. heuffelianus "Shockwave"

Crocus vernus "Haarlem Gem"

[Janis Ruksans]

Yesterday for the first time in this dark winter shined sun and crocus flowers opened in greenhouse without bringing pots inside. Temperature in greenhouse raised up to +14. Here few pictures - all plants are wild hybrids between biflorus sensu lato (may be C. mawii) and some of chrysanthus.

[Janis Ruksans]

On first picture my greenhouse yesterday.
One of new recently described species is Crocus minutus. It is close to danfordiae and easy separable by white stigma. Really it was grown in several collections but no one noted this feature up to it stopped sharp eyes of Helmut Kerndorff and Erich Pasche. DNA confirmed that it really is different species. My collections of it extends area for one more mountain ridge to East. It was described as species with blue flowers. Later we found that in Gothenburg BG is grown another colour form - blue-white striped flowers. Such were unknown before even between danfordiae. Two years ago I collected three corms supposing that it is C. biflorus in locality close to locus classicus of minutus. This spring they bloomed. One was biflorus, another two white minutus.
During the same trip on another spot I collected a pair of corms of another crocus which looked as danfordiae. It was small spot on pass where snow melted and there were few crocus buds coming out and a pair were collected. Now they bloom for the first time with very unusual for Crocus danfordiae colour.

[Boyed]

A couple from the garden today :

C. heuffelianus "Shockwave"

Crocus vernus "Haarlem Gem"

Both are beauties!!!!!!!!!!

[de.da.]

Hello.
Nice plants do you have, Eberhard!
Especially your sieberi!

My first shots:
Cr.tommasianus `Roseus`(growing much better in the lawn than in the pot and many weeks earlier than last year)




Kind regards- Daniel

[Martin Baxendale]

Wow Janis! The colouring on IMG_6286.JPG ! 

[annew]

It's fantastic, makes me want to get my paints out!
This is a fun pot of seedlings from Crocus 'National Park'.

[Matt T]

That's a nice variety mixture there Anne. You must have had some sun recently, they look like good strong plants too.

[krisderaeymaeker]

What a great show , lovely to see them al ! Especially love that sieberi from Eberhard but this has a reason ...we did see that one in Crete in the white mountains or Lefka Ori.

Here some flowers in the garden .

First C. atticus ssp. sublimis 'Tricolor' 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Crocus cvijicii is stil going outside and makes a second flower .

 

[krisderaeymaeker]

First time flowering here is Crocus scepusiensis ssp. leucostigma. (is this the valid name now ?)