Crocus March 2014

[Rimmer de Vries]

Rimmer

as you know I thought it was a vernus but here is a Crocus sieberi  with a 'v' shaped marking from Mt Parnassus where it is a very mixed population of sieberi/veluchensis

Hi Tony
 yours is a very nice coloration!
how did you determine it was Crocus sieberi?

[Tony Willis]

Rimmer

collected it on Parnassus where sieberi grows,slight yellow in throat to distinguish it from veluchensis.

[David Nicholson]

What's the correct pronunciation of sieberi please? I've heard 'seeberi'; 'sybeeri' and 'syberi'

[uvularia]

Slovenia is covered in Crocus vernus ssp. vernus and Crocus vernus ssp. albiflorus at the moment!

[Tony Willis]

What's the correct pronunciation of sieberi please? I've heard 'seeberi'; 'sybeeri' and 'syberi'

My answer is how you feel comfortable pronouncing it !

[David Nicholson]

Well that'll do me Tony.

[tonyg]

What's the correct pronunciation of sieberi please? I've heard 'seeberi'; 'sybeeri' and 'syberi'

Tony W is right of course!
I say seeberi.
Next lesson: How to pronounce cvijicii 

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Tonyg, I like that pronunciation best, I shall adopt it

[tonyg]

Thanks Tonyg, I like that pronunciation best, I shall adopt it

But you did not rise to the svee-each-e-i challenge .....darn, I gave it away!

[David Nicholson]

It's a sneeze isn't it?

[Gerry Webster]

But you did not rise to the svee-each-e-i challenge .....darn, I gave it away!

Can we stay away from Bowles, that  upper class English twit? Despite Brian Mathew, his comments are  not at all amusing. They reflect a  crass & lazy English mentality which regards all things foreign as funny. So a paeony has to be  "Molly the Witch - hilarious!

[Janis Ruksans]

Tony W is right of course!
I say seeberi.
Next lesson: How to pronounce cvijicii 

Regarding cvijicii - play on violin...  (recommendation by E.A. Bowles)

On mainland Greece are growing only atticus, sublimis, nivalis and athous
Crocus sieberi grow only on Crete.

[tonyg]

Can we stay away from Bowles, that  upper class English twit? Despite Brian Mathew, his comments are  not at all amusing. They reflect a  crass & lazy English mentality which regards all things foreign as funny. So a paeony has to be  "Molly the Witch - hilarious!

I'm sure that other countries have more than a few laughs at the expense of our language with it's inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies.  Indeed playing with words is at the root of much great English comedy 

[Lesley Cox]

Regarding cvijicii - play on violin...  (recommendation by E.A. Bowles)

In that case I'd have to agree with Gerry. NOT amusing!

[Janis Ruksans]

In that case I'd have to agree with Gerry. NOT amusing!

I'm always reeding Bowles with greatest pleasure - so beautiful comparings, specific English proverbs. Need a little thinking to understand what will be the Latvian equivalent and then you find how same things can be explained in various nations. It is very interesting and enlarges your world. No one is thinking that it is bad or abusive. So I can't understand why you feel so... What is bad in "cvijicii" plaid on violin? I use same comparing when I'm making lectures in Latvia, too, of course citing Bowles as author. It is fantastic and shows how intelligent and educated was E. A. Bowles.
Janis