Crocus October 2016

[Yann]

another good batch of Crocus, you still have time to takes photos between 2 bottles and diapers ?

[ruben]

LOL, next 2 my 2 children i need to find some time to work in the garden. But i never looked so clean this time of the year 

Crocus hadriaticus white form- pelop Greece. Collection from Hendrik van Bogaert
Crocus longiflorus 'Nebrodi' AH 9703

[ruben]

Very happy with this Crocus - Crocus hellenicus (speciosus group).

Grows only in 3 places in Greece- Ioannina, Vikos Canyon, and near Monodendri.

[sokol]

It looks very nice indeed.

I have often been in this area but I have never heard anything about this species.

[ruben]

Its newly described in 2013 by Janis Ruksans in the paper 'Seven New crocuses from the Balkans and Turkey' published by the alpine garden society.

If you type it in google you will find it

[sokol]

Thanks, I have must have overlooked it or simply forgotten.

I hope I can take some pictures tomorrow as some species are now out, waiting for the sun to open the flowers.

[ruben]

Sunny weather without any wind --> nany crocusses to open

Crocus banaticus
Crocus boryi x tournefortii
Crocus hellenicus
Crocus kotschyanus ssp. leucopharynckx

[ruben]

Crocus laevigatus AH 0153
Crocus niveus
Crocus pulchellus
Crocus salzmanii KPW 9425

[ruben]

4x speciosus

901-6
'Aino'
'Artabir'
Oxonian'
ssp; ilgazensis

[Maggi Young]

Sunshine and crocus - is there anything else needed to make time in the garden perfect?

[sokol]

Correct and I was so happy that it was out yesterday to take pictures in the garden.

I love Crocus banaticus and the seedlings seen on the second and third pictures flowered for the first time this year.

[sokol]

Also one of my favorites is C. cambessedesii, that started yesterday.

Crocus mathewi is seed raised with at least one albus. It flowers for the second time, but last year just one plant.

[sokol]

Crocus speciosus loves our garden soil and it has spread out everywhere since years. When I started with Crocus about 20 years ago I planted different species in the meadow but all vanished besides Crocus speciosus or all have been misnamed Crocus speciosus from our garden Centers.

The other three species origin all from Greece and are the first to come into flower yesterday.

[sokol]

I must have lost a Crocus bulb during repotting two years ago and discovered it yesterday in the meadow. I think it is Crocus oreocreticus.

[olegKon]

Thanks for showing some beautiful crocuses, Ruben and Sokol.
A couple from my garden, nothing very special but they brighten somewhat gloomy autumn here
1. Crocus speciosus ( received as "Bowles")
2. Crocus speciosus
3. Crocus kotschyanus (nearly white)
4. usual Crocus kotschyanus
5. Crocus kotschyanus leukopharynx