Crocus september 2015

[pehe]

Very good picture of C. autranii, Paul. From where just in Russia are your speciosus?
Crocus gilanicus - first flowers pictured 2 days ago
Janis

Thank you Janis!
Unfortunately I do not know the exact location in Russia where this speciosus came from. I got mine from Sarah and Julian Sutton, Desirable Plants. They describe it as exceptional early, but as it is the first season at my place I can't really judge that yet. But it is earlier than puringhiorum, which has not shown yet. Since I read about the very early speciosus you once had from Crimea, but unfortunately lost, I have been looking for early flowering forms.

Poul

Poul

[pehe]

Although something similar in some forms C. vallicola always blooms after C. suworovianus. It is easy separable from the last by long "tail" on tips of flower segments. Here the form from Turkey and on next two pictures - from Russian Caucasus. For those I must thank to Dima from unhappy Ukraine, suffering from Russian aggression and terrorist gangs in Donbass where lives Dima's parents and is located his garden. All his Caucasian and Azerbaijan gatherings left unplanted in autumn 2014 due Russian aggression.
Another 2 pictures are crocuses from speciosus group originally collected in C Turkey.

Janis the vallicola from Caucasus is very beautiful! Much better than the Turkish forms I grow.

Poul

[Yann]

Fore sure what a wonderful set of Crocus dear Janis

[Steve Garvie]

Some cracking-looking crocus Janis!

Crocus cappadocicus is in flower here.

[ruben]

Hope you will keep post them Janis! You grow so many Jewels. Its nice to see the pictures and its very instructive.

I very much like the white form op cappadocicus JRRK 090, hope i will come available in the future :-d

Lots of sun todat, so finally the crocusses opened well:

Crocus speciosus 'Oxonian' - still a very good form
Crocus banaticus 'First Snow'
Crocus cancellatus ssp. mazziaricus - at his very best today

[ruben]

More and more flowers out of Crocus kotschyanus

[Matt T]

Crocus banaticus with a nice contrast in colour is out now, joining C. b. 'First Snow' which I've shown earlier and is pushing up more buds, so this will be 4 flowers - there was one corm and one small offset when I repotted in July - what good value!

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus banaticus with a nice contrast in colour is out now, joining C. b. 'First Snow' which I've shown earlier and is pushing up more buds, so this will be 4 flowers - there was one corm and one small offset when I repotted in July - what good value!

Excellent banaticus, Matt. Mine blue only showed first nose out of soil. Today is raining all the day and flowers stay closed. Nothing else left than to order papers and prepare some herbariums of quite rare crocuses. Pity that for complete herbarium we need to kill the plant.
Janis

[ruben]

A few years ago i saw a picture of a bicolored banaticus. Any idea of there is another bicolored banaticus? Somebody who grows it?

[krisderaeymaeker]

Many fantastic pictures and plants  already .....here only few that start flowering.

Crocus vallicola is one of them .

[krisderaeymaeker]

Crocus banaticus 'Snowdrift'

[Matt T]

Excellent banaticus, Matt. Mine blue only showed first nose out of soil. Today is raining all the day and flowers stay closed. Nothing else left than to order papers and prepare some herbariums of quite rare crocuses. Pity that for complete herbarium we need to kill the plant.
Janis

Thanks, Janis. I think our cool, moist climate suits them rather well. They certainly don't present any problems to grow here.

A few years ago i saw a picture of a bicolored banaticus. Any idea of there is another bicolored banaticus? Somebody who grows it?

Try searching the Bulb Logs Ruben, as I recall some plants with nicely contrasting colours amongst Ian and Maggi's seedlings.

[Thomas Huber]

A few years ago i saw a picture of a bicolored banaticus. Any idea of there is another bicolored banaticus? Somebody who grows it?

I remember Hagen's banaticus bicolor:
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4099.345

[Matt T]

Some more variations on C. banaticus:

from Ian
from Shelagh
from Hagen
and from Poul

Off to cross-pollinate my white and blue!

[Janis Ruksans]

Some more variations on C. banaticus:

from Ian
from Shelagh
from Hagen
and from Poul

Off to cross-pollinate my white and blue!

My open-pollinated seeds of First Snow and Snowdrift gave mostly blue forms but in each pot were 1-2 whites, but no intermediates.
Janis