Crocus October 2016

[Cfred72]

The fourth is superb.

[Maggi Young]

Some great crocus  - and many other fab plants too, of course - at the Kent Alpine show of the AGS in Sutton Valence School last weekeind - here is Don Peace's photo from Twitter of Alan Furness with his Farrer Medal Winning plant, Crocus banaticus 'Snowdrift' - really nice to see crocus winning!

[sokol]

What a great pot.

I have many Crocus speciosus in my lawn or meadow and they are spreading everywhere. Unfortunately also bulbs and seed received as other species have turned out to be Crocus speciosus.

[Diane Whitehead]

Nice pictures Luc, especially the sequence of Crocus karduchorum.

That flower is absolutely determined to get pollinated.  I've never seen such a brazen crocus before.

[Thomas Huber]

I have many Crocus speciosus in my lawn or meadow and they are spreading everywhere. Unfortunately also bulbs and seed received as other species have turned out to be Crocus speciosus.

Morning Sokol, unfortunately it often happens that you get C. speciosus instead of your ordered species, but it depends on the source from which you got your plants..... gardencenters often contain wrong corms and also wholesale dealers are no more reliable, but there are still many small, private dealers from which you can buy good and true plants.

Re C. karduchorum: Most plants in trade are not flowering, and if flowering not true but C. kotschyanus leucopharynx... this mistake is known for decades, but still valid. The true karduchorum is a very rare plant and only available from special dealers or from seed exchanges.

[Thomas Huber]

Some photos from my garden in the last days:
068 - My bulblawn in the late sun
079 - Crocus speciosus Albus + Artabir looking great together
076 - C. speciosus in my lawn
009 - My favourite speciosus: An unnamed small and dark flower with a very strong stem. Could be the original plant of speciosus 'Aino'....
039 - Crocus mazziaricus from the Peloponnese

[Thomas Huber]

Some more impressions from my crocuslawn
Crocus cambessedesii from Mallorca
Crocus tournefortii from Greece

[Thomas Huber]

... and another favourite of mine: Crocus ligusticus from Liguria/Italy
The white one took me 9 years of hard search.....

[ruben]

Superb crocusses Thomas!

I really love cambessedesii and the white ligusticus! Well done!

[Yann]

yep what a carpet in the darkness of the evening, the deep yellow of this niveus late form.

[ruben]

Nice Yann

Crocus armeniacum
Crocus ibrahimii
Crocus niveus large form MELJ 1109
Crocus ligustivus TCH 15- Crocus puringiorum

[ruben]

Crocus mathewii
Crocus ochroleucus
Crocusframe
Crocusframe

[Yann]

mathewii bouquet 

[David Nicholson]

Just a couple from the greenhouse today:-

Crocus goulimyi
and from Crocus Group 2012 seed sown October 2012 and flowering for the first time C. vernus, or is it?? Should it be this early?

[sokol]

Morning Sokol, unfortunately it often happens that you get C. speciosus instead of your ordered species, but it depends on the source from which you got your plants..... gardencenters often contain wrong corms and also wholesale dealers are no more reliable, but there are still many small, private dealers from which you can buy good and true plants.

Re C. karduchorum: Most plants in trade are not flowering, and if flowering not true but C. kotschyanus leucopharynx... this mistake is known for decades, but still valid. The true karduchorum is a very rare plant and only available from special dealers or from seed exchanges.

Thnx Thomas for your explanations. Yes, I bought my Crocus in gardencenters, when I started to grow autumn crocus.
Wonderful pictures and it looks if they are growing completely outside.