Crocus October 2015

[Maggi Young]

Interesting , also, to remember that Zhirair's Augis  'Artabir' were in flower last year by 16th October while the Janis 'Artabir' were still noses- - opposite of this year.

[Boyed]

Interesting , also, to remember that Zhirair's Augis  'Artabir' were in flower last year by 16th October while the Janis 'Artabir' were still noses- - opposite of this year.

Maggi, that's, maybe, because, Janis' 'Artabir' I just gor last year. And I think that it was just beacause of late planting. late, I mean, after August.

[Boyed]

Superb crocus Zhirair, Ruben and Janis.

Crocus gilanicus grown from my own seeds from plants ex Jean Wyllie, showing some colour variation.
Crocus pulchellus albus from Janis.  This does well in a lattice pot sunk in the open garden and has not been repotted for many years.

Cyril,

And I have few comments related with crocus pulchellus white form. As you may know, Janis selected it from the seelings of crocus pulchellus x specisosus 'Zephyr'. I also got exacly such from my 'Zephyr' seedlings. Se my previous post Reply #24 on: October 09, 2015 - 2 samples in the middle of the posted picters. But as they have longer styles, I just thought that they are white pulchellus x speciosus hybrids. As pure pulchellus albus I selected 2 samples with shorter styles, as pulchellus should have, in the foreground and background - one with poited petals and the other with rounded ones. Now I am puzzled. lets wait for Janis and others opinion.

[ruben]

I very much love autumn flowering crocus, but most (read almost all) of them are flowering in white or blue/purple and sometimes that is boring.

For that reason i'm very happy with this collection of hadriaticus from Mt. Enos in Greece. Is has got a brown keel and a yellow(ish) flower. In the background you see a white flower of cartwrightianus 'Marcel' for comparison.

The other is the lovely Crocus mathewii

[Boyed]

I very much love autumn flowering crocus, but most (read almost all) of them are flowering in white or blue/purple and sometimes that is boring.

For that reason i'm very happy with this collection of hadriaticus from Mt. Enos in Greece. Is has got a brown keel and a yellow(ish) flower. In the background you see a white flower of cartwrightianus 'Marcel' for comparison.

The other is the lovely Crocus mathewii

For me they never boring. That's true, there is no wide range of colours, but there is very wide range of different shapes.

[ruben]

It was a way of saying i'm very happy with this yellow form. Bored was a wrong word 

[Dave Hardy]

Ruben,
It is great to see your photo of C. matthewii. I have just bought a bulb and I look forward to the time it flowers for me in N. Ireland.
Dave

[Yann]

Crocus 'Netsuke', the sun burst flower

[udo]

nice pictures from all, here some from last sunday:
Crocus gilanicus x kotschyanus, many flowers-not seeds
            caspius ( next year hopefully in my sale list )
            ibrahimii, thanks Janis
            pumilus from Omalos, Crete

[Yann]

ibrahimii is stuning.

[Maggi Young]

See the first pic in this post -  http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13624.msg342882#msg342882 - for a fine pic from TC (Tom) of a lovely naturalised planting of Crocus speciosus at Dawyck Garden, Stobo, Near Peebles, Scottish Borders, EH45 9JU

[Boyed]

See the first pic in this post -  http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13624.msg342882#msg342882 - for a fine pic from TC (Tom) of a lovely naturalised planting of Crocus speciosus at Dawyck Garden, Stobo, Near Peebles, Scottish Borders, EH45 9JU

They seem to be speciosus 'Oxonian'. The dark tube is very visable and eye-catching.

[Maggi Young]

They seem to be speciosus 'Oxonian'. The dark tube is very visable and eye-catching.

That's what I thought, Zhirair. I love the dark tube.

[Cyril L]

Thank you Tony and Janis for putting me right on Crocus gilanicus.  I should know what the true species look like (see picture of the plants grown from Jean Wyllie's seeds), but I had forgotten and thought this was just a good form.  My plant must be a hybrid with C. kotschyanus, somewhat similar to Dirk's C. gilanicus x kotschyanus.

[Cyril L]

I very much love autumn flowering crocus, but most (read almost all) of them are flowering in white or blue/purple and sometimes that is boring.

For that reason i'm very happy with this collection of hadriaticus from Mt. Enos in Greece. Is has got a brown keel and a yellow(ish) flower. In the background you see a white flower of cartwrightianus 'Marcel' for comparison.

The other is the lovely Crocus mathewii

Ruben, the yellow(ish) flower on the C. hadriaticus is a welcome colour in autumn crocuses.  I believe there is no true yellow autumn crocus.