Crocus October 2017

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Glorious! It must be spectacular in your crocus house, Janis!
I found this nice C. banaticus outside, I hope it will come back next year.

Quite unique Anne - one to covet ! 

[Yann]

Crocus cartwrightianus, it takes days to open under the cloudy sky. I've missed other crocuses eated by slugs   

[annew]

Beautiful! I like the purple lines in the throat.
The joy of growing from seed - three different flowers from one pod of C. hadriaticus (probably crossed with mathewii).

[annew]

And this multi-segmented flowewr from seeds of Crocus Purple Heart.

[sokol]

Nice and interesting plants, Anne and Yann. It seems that it is ugly weather everywhere.

I took some pictures at Thursday, when it was still warm but very windy. I have never had Crocus ochroleucus so early. It normally flowers in November here.




Crocus hellenicus is now open. It waited two weeks till the temperatures dropped to come further out.




Crocus laevigatus from Ikaria.

[WimB]

Crocus armeniensis (from cormlets from the Crocus Group Seedex 2015)...seems to be some variation in the stock.

Crocus asumaniae

Crocus gilanicus

[WimB]

Crocus lycius

Crocus niveus

[Yann]

not bad, only 2 years to got this lovely crocuses.

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus cartwrightianus is extremely variable crocus. The cv. Purple Heart is so similar to C. mathewii that only position of point where stigma splits allow to separate both.

[Janis Ruksans]

Here two crocuses at present regarded as Crocus pallasii sensu lato - the first 3 pictures from Turkey in Europe and last two - collected E of Bozkir in continental Turkey

[olegKon]

Probably because spring and summer were unusually cold and wet, this is the only autumn crocus flowering at the moment as, I think, it was bought this year. Crocus banaticus I have never had experience of growing before

[Janis Ruksans]

Started blooming Crocus mathewii - on first 2 pictures its variability.
Then Crocus mazziaricus aff.  LST-402 from near Denizli, Turkey, where it is growing side by side with C. baytopiorum.
From Crocus longiflorus the first to bloom is stock AH-9703 from Nebrodi range, Sicily, Italia
and as last - Crocus niveus.

[ruben]

stunning pictures all. Some crocusses of today after being away for to long!

Crocus wattiorum
Crocus melantherus
Crocus hyemalis
Crocus moabiticus x ?

[ruben]

Crocus hadriaticus form
Crocus speciosus xantholaimos x pulchellus
Crocus niveus forms
Crocus kotschyanus HKEP 9103 - really different to other collections to me

[ruben]

and 3 more

Crocus goulimyi 'Agia Sofia'
Crocus pallasii chios Island
Crocus mathewii