Crocus september 2015

[ruben]

Thanks for the information! I know the one of Hagen is lost.
Did you once found intermediates of banaticus in wild populations Janis?

[pehe]

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

Ruben, my seedlings of the normal blue ones show some variation and it is normal that some of them are more or less bicolored as the one I posted in 2013. I have collected seeds of the most bicolored in hope of getting even more contrasting colours.

Poul

[Janis Ruksans]

Thanks for the information! I know the one of Hagen is lost.
Did you once found intermediates of banaticus in wild populations Janis?

In wild I found it only once - this spring in Ukraina, E Carpathians, so I still didn't see its flowers. I never was in other countries where it grow wild.
Janis

[David Nicholson]

I wasn't going to post this as I didn't get the settings right but, as it's my first of the season I will, here's a poor pic of Crocus serotinus ssp.salzmannii from seed from Rafa.

[krisderaeymaeker]

I wasn't going to post this as I didn't get the settings right but, as it's my first of the season I will, here's a poor pic of Crocus serotinus ssp.salzmannii from seed from Rafa.

Good you post it anyway David . He deserves as much attention as any other . Even more , remember its your own baby  ..... 

[Cyril L]

Crocus banaticus self sows in my garden and the resulting plants are quite variable ranging from pure white to dark purple.  Here are a couple flowering now, with one being quite pale.  I have marked it and will see whether it is stable next year.  My experience is that the pale and pink ones revert to the normal purple in due course.

[Thomas Huber]

First flowers also in my garden:
Crocus vallicola from Turkey, a Zetterlund collection
Crocus speciosus Albus - not a rarity, but still a beauty
Crocus pulchellus - first flowers in my lawn, a gift from Aberdeen 
Crocus speciosus - a special early flowering form from an old Swedish garden.

[ruben]

Nice pale form Cyril! Hope it will be stable. But also very interesting to check if most (read all) pale and pink ones revert back to normal purple, and hope to find the single one(s) that stays stable!

Nice pictures Thomas! Crocus vallicola is such a beauty, here also in flower but not enough sun to open

[ruben]

Crocus vallicola (from Artvin- Turkey) - in good compagny of Arum italicum 'Breitseite'.

Crocus nudiflorus

[udo]

Here my first from Speciosus-Group, Crocus bolensis from Abant Lake in Turkey

[ruben]

Crocus bolensis - speciosus group
Crocus laevigatus - very early!! (grows outside next to niveus, boryi and niveus only show noses)
Crocus speciosus albus

[Thomas Huber]

Many new flowers over the sunny weekend:
Crocus cambessedesii, different clones
Crocus speciosus Oxonian and ligusticus in my rockgarden
Also on my lawn the flowers slowly increase

[Thomas Huber]

Crocus speciosus is still one of my favourites:
Oxonian
Aino, the form sold nowadays
Aino, probably the original plant, much smaller and more stable than the new plant

Crocus ligusticus - another favourite plant. This one has increased vegetatively very well, which is not standard for this species

[Thomas Huber]

Crocus nudiflorus, photographed in different light-levels all over the day:
(first photo the plant in the foreground is C. ligusticus! Only to distinguish when open, from the red, much branched style)

[Maggi Young]

 Oh yes!  Some sunshine improves even the most beautiful flowers.