Crocus December 2015

[Janis Ruksans]

Excellent korolkowii, Ruben!

[WimB]

Crocus biflorus subsp. punctatus

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus biflorus subsp. punctatus

Sorry, Wim, but this is Crocus babadagensis - punctatus has blue ground colour. Very characteristic for C. babadagensis (described in 2012) is blackish tips of anthers. Although with same petals outside both are very distant geographically and has different morphological characters, too. Before 2012 both were distributed under name punctatus but now better to correct name.
Schocked by so early bloomiong. What when will come frost?
Janis

[WimB]

Sorry, Wim, but this is Crocus babadagensis - punctatus has blue ground colour. Very characteristic for C. babadagensis (described in 2012) is blackish tips of anthers. Although with same petals outside both are very distant geographically and has different morphological characters, too. Before 2012 both were distributed under name punctatus but now better to correct name.
Schocked by so early bloomiong. What when will come frost?
Janis

Thanks for the correction, Janis! I'll change my label. It's flowering a month earlier than last year....no frost over here, at least until the end of the month. Minimum temperatures stay around 10°C during the night.

[art600]

Wim

I really like your Crocus babdagensis     Could you please tell me who supplied the corms.

Arthur

[WimB]

Wim

I really like your Crocus babdagensis     Could you please tell me who supplied the corms.

Arthur

Arthur,

they came from Kirsten and Lars Andersen, the collection number is HKEP9708

[art600]

Benefitting from the fleeting sun -

Crocus adamii

A Crocus from Kot - can anyone suggest which sub specie it is.

[art600]

Arthur,

they came from Kirsten and Lars Andersen, the collection number is HKEP9708

Thanks Wim - I must try to get some as I think the stippling on the outside of the petals is excellent.

[Janis Ruksans]

Thanks Wim - I must try to get some as I think the stippling on the outside of the petals is excellent.

HKEP 9708 is the single acquisition in cultivation at present. Grown in Gothenburg BG and I suppose that will be offered by my successor Liga in her catalogue sometimes in January - she now is working on it.

[ruben]

Spring feeling in December, very strange and much to hot weather. I grow almost all my bulbs in open ground so they are not much earlier than usual (thanks god) pff

Crocus imperatii ssp. suaveolens 'De Jager'
Crocus fleischeri 'Gulek Pass'
Crocus sieberii 'Bowles White'
Crocus korolkowii from Mongol tau mts in Uzbekistan

[Steve Garvie]

Some nice-looking crocus Ruben!

Here in West Fife the weather has been very mild but also wet & windy (as usual).
I grow almost all of my crocus under glass as most crocus flowers don't last long in the open garden here. This year the cool summer and warm winter have brought many plants into flower ridiculously early. The warmth, humidity and poor light levels encourage lax growth, flopping floral tubes, flowers that don't open ......and then botrytis. Here are three that should not be flowering at this time of year:

Crocus michelsonii -A form initially collected from Turkmenistan by Jan Jilek.


Crocus caricus -Straggly asymmetrical flower due to low light.


Crocus x goteburgensis -a very attractive and robust hybrid of impeccable parentage. This particular clone was created by Tony Willis. Once I have enough I will try it in the open garden.

[Janis Ruksans]

Some nice-looking crocus Ruben!

Here in West Fife the weather has been very mild but also wet & windy (as usual).
I grow almost all of my crocus under glass as most crocus flowers don't last long in the open garden here. This year the cool summer and warm winter have brought many plants into flower ridiculously early. The warmth, humidity and poor light levels encourage lax growth, flopping floral tubes, flowers that don't open ......and then botrytis. Here are three that should not be flowering at this time of year:

Fantastic pictures! The last at first look as pure scardicus, but later noted brownish veining and flush confirming hybrid origin with C. pelistericus,

[Janis Ruksans]

Here today +12 C - the warmest since 1932 for 20th December. In greenhouse still blooms melantherus, laevigatus and few others and for great surprise all cambessedesii regardless of very dull weather had completely open flowers. Another surprise - finally C. moabiticus pushed flower buds out of cataphylls, but they still did not open. Extremely late, although it is late bloomer, but never was so late. Between spring bloomers only few flowers of C. hittiticus were out but finished blooming without opening. I hadn't camera with me, so not pictured those few blooming crocuses, only noted very strong scent of C. melantherus.
Janis

[Yann]

Ruben i love the ray of light on the imperatii, you catched it!
Steve as always fantastics photos, if you have surplus of goteburgensis you can knock on my door 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Wow Steve .....great plants and great pictures . Congrats !!!!!