Crocus January 2016

[ruben]

Crocus sieberii 'George'
Crocus tommasinianus 'JMG 04' a good selection from John Grimshaw
Crocus sieberii with visitor 
More and more flowers to see
Crocus paschei

[Maggi Young]

A very nice Crocus from Dirk. Will say the name later as i use it for quiz in Vrv forum lol

[tonyg]

A couple of 'special' crocuses caught in the rare sunshine - it was a perfect day.

Crocus biflorus ssp alexandrii - corms I received from forumist Lesley Cox a few years ago.  They reversed their seasons very quickly although I had them in flower in early June the first year.  They are deep purple when the buds are tight closed but open gloriously revealing the much paler inners.

The other special is the form of Crocus dalmaticus - a Brian Mathew collection M5316 which came here in 1999 from Ray Cobb.  I thought I had lost it many years ago, just a tiny cormlet remained after a disastrous season but today I found it in flower once more in one of my 'hospital' pots where odd single corms are nursed to flowering size.  Alongside it is a flower of Crocus imperati.

[Maggi Young]

The  free monthly e-magazine, International Rock Gardener IRG 73  for January 2016  is online now :
A new species  of Crocus is described by Janis Ruksans  : Crocus duncanii- named to honour  Brian Duncan

and   a new Galanthus cultivar, 'Longraigue' by Alan Briggs  is also  named and last but not least,  some good, readily available  garden plants are listed to coincide with David Nicholson's  list of Specialist Plant Nurseries

Read the January 2016  IRG  here : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jan281454019772IRG73.pdf

[pehe]

A couple of 'special' crocuses caught in the rare sunshine - it was a perfect day.

Crocus biflorus ssp alexandrii - corms I received from forumist Lesley Cox a few years ago.  They reversed their seasons very quickly although I had them in flower in early June the first year.  They are deep purple when the buds are tight closed but open gloriously revealing the much paler inners.

The other special is the form of Crocus dalmaticus - a Brian Mathew collection M5316 which came here in 1999 from Ray Cobb.  I thought I had lost it many years ago, just a tiny cormlet remained after a disastrous season but today I found it in flower once more in one of my 'hospital' pots where odd single corms are nursed to flowering size.  Alongside it is a flower of Crocus imperati.

Tony, that's a very fine form of Alexandrii!

Mine are also flowering - but not as beautiful as yours

Poul

[Matt T]

Agreed, alexandrii is a stunning plant in all its forms, but Tony/Lesley's form is jaw-dropping! I only have it as three potfuls of seedlings, so hopefully something special might appear from them in a couple of year 

[pehe]

Crocus caricus from Janis.

I have placed it in-house for some days in hope of getting seeds

Poul

[pehe]

Crocus alatavicus under glass

No crocus is flowering in the garden

Poul

[Luc Gilgemyn]

What a stunning Crocus show people !!!  So hard to choose from !

Here's my contribution :

Crocus biflorus ssp nubigena - can't get enough of it ! 

Crocus biflorus ssp parkinsonii in the garden, growing right through the cushion of Arenaria granatensis tetraquetra 

Crocus korolkowii albus

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some more :

Crocus malyi with it's first flower

Crocus chrisanthus 'Herald', one of my favourite cultivars

Crocus sieberi nivalis

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Last batch :

Crocus etruscus enjoying the sunshine in the garden.... before the rain came 

Crocus ushakensis

Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri

[udo]

very nice Crocus from all,
here some from garden and frame
Crocus antherothes from Göktepe/ Turkey
   ''        hartmannianus, Cyprus
   ''        kerndorffiorum, Turkey
   ''        sublimis, Greece
   ''        suaveolens, seedlings from 'de Jager'

[Yann]

It was a gloomy day with a kind of  monsoon
Hopefully in the greenhouse it's spring

Crocus sieberi sublimis
Crocus tauricus

[Yann]

Crocus chrysanthus 'Constellation'
Crocus x paulineae in full bloom
Crocus chrysanthus 'Blue Peter'

[Janis Ruksans]

Very nice form of C. tauricus, this dark shading around throat!, Yann; and I like C. x paulinae, too. Seems that it is form raised by me to which Liga recently gave cv. name after her daughter 'Paula' - so if it came from me, must be now named Crocus x paulinae 'Paula'