Crocus February 2008

[hadacekf]

Here are a few in bloom today. Hope the ID are correct.

Crocus baytopiorum
Crocus abantensis
Crocus biflorus-ssp. crewii
Crocus fleischeri
Crocus sieberi Hubert-Edelsten

[Armin]

Another day with real beauties!
Great images from all.

I'm currently abroad from home. I'm anxious to see which speci will be in flower in my lawn on Saturday...

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thank you Franz !
Superb series !  All favourites of mine !  
Do they all grow outdoors
I've always heard C. baytopiorum was a difficult one in the open ?  

[hadacekf]

Luc, all grow in my meadow outdoor. They survived -6° C.

[udo]

view pictures from the last days:

Cr.biflorus ssp.isauricus
    biflorus ssp.    Belpinar, Turkey
    x bornmuelleri
    aerius

[mark smyth]

That's a very rich yellow!

Paul Christian's web site shows a korolkowii labelled Apricot which must be what he supplied to me as the white form

[Michael J Campbell]

Crocus bed today.

[Thomas Huber]

Michael is your bed only for crocus??

Here some of mine:

- chrysanthus "Eyecatcher" - long wanted by me, finally last year I found a Dutch grower who could help me 
   all the plants I have bought in the years before turned out to be wrong 
- chrysanthus "Herald", I had a good stock of this plant but lost most of them last year, this is the rest 
   have ordered some from Holland last year, but these are still not flowering - hope they will be true 
- chrysanthus "Warley", a small stock built from a single corm found in 2004
- a dark form of C. versicolor. I will separate this beauty and try to increase it in the next years.

[Gerdk]

Luc, all grow in my meadow outdoor. They survived -6° C.

Franz,
I never tried Crocus baytopiorum outside. I gave this species away because within a greenhouse it remembers a creeper at flowering time.
In your meadow it looks much better.

Gerd

[Michael J Campbell]

Michael is your bed only for crocus??

There are a few dwarf Tulips but mostly crocus, I made it especially for the crocus with the contents of last years compost bin mixed with lots of grit. It is two railway sleepers high so well drained because of our high rainfall.

[udo]

more flowers,

Crocus sieberi ssp.sublimis, several seedlings
          leichtlinii
          carpetanus
          fleischeri
          paschei

[Gerry Webster]

Dirk, how nice to see some of the less common species. I look forward to your autumn flowering collection!

[annew]

A fantastic collection, everyone. C. fleischeri is a favourite of mine because of its scent. Here are a couple of mine. C. 'George' and C tommasinianus 'Roseus'

[David Nicholson]

Breathtaking pictures everyone is there any wonder how easy it is to become besotted by Crocuses!

[mark smyth]

Anne could your tommie be Lilac Beauty?