Crocus October 2017

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Crocus boryi x tournefortii

Crocus boryi

and Crocus cartwrightianus 'Marcel'

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Crocus dispathaceus

and Crocus goulimyi var. leucanthus

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Crocus goulimyi

Crocus hadriaticus subsp. parnassicus

Crocus hadriaticus var. lilacinus

and Crocus kotschyanus

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Crocus ligusticus TCH12, from a seed collection by Thomas and Chris Huber in the east of Liguria, with "huge" (to use a Trump-ism) flowers

Crocus 'Netsuke' (hybrid from Leonid Bondarenko)

Crocus pallasii 'Homeri' KJGR-001

and Crocus ilgazensis x pulchellus 'Fantasy' (hybrid from Janis Ruksans)

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Crocus pulchellus

Crocus salzmannii, large flowered clone

Crocus speciosus

Crocus vallicola

Crocus zubovii

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Crocus turcicus 05-1066

and Crocus turcicus JJA 349.961

[Jan Tholhuijsen]

What an overwhelming array of colors. This is to be dreamed. Thank you for all the participants so far.

[David Nicholson]

Your garden must look pretty special at this time of year Wim.

[WimB]

Your garden must look pretty special at this time of year Wim.

There's some colour here and there 

[Janis Ruksans]

Now blooms C. archibaldiorum from my first collection in 2008. It is seedling from original plants but impossible to separate from plants collected at same place this spring - one of them blooms just now.
Crocus armeniensis as always makes the largest flowers.
Very nice is Crocus assumaniae, but its white form surpasses all other autumnal whites.
Crocus mathewii only just started blooming.

[Janis Ruksans]

Still some speciosus - my old garden favourites Albus and Oxonian with its darkest purple flower tube and again group of Blue Web - so impressive it is.
From Europeans - Crocus ligusticus started blooming.
Although some tells that new species of "speciosus" group are inseparable between them, it is not truth and one of the most different is C. ibrahimii - from Turkey in Europe

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus pulchellus here I'm presenting with sample from Chios Island in Greece, then its cultivars Albus and Zephyr. The last is hybrid with some of "speciosus" crocus and you can observe this in splitting of seedlings.

[annew]

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.

[WimB]

Wonderful, Janis. Especially the 'Blue Web' is stunning!!

And Anne, that is a very nice pinkelicious banaticus...

[Janis Ruksans]

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.

Excellent banaticus! My white's has white stigmas, too. But regarding display - this season it is not so impressive as suppose, Anne., blooms come up slowly and chaotic. May be unusually cold summer, may be very late repotting. Usually I finish crocuses in July, this year only in last day of August. Replacing of nursery is not the easiest time... for both owner and for plants, too. Today finished repotting of Oxalis and tomorrow will start with the last genus - Tulipa. Hope to finish next week.
But some flowers here, too: Nice for of cartwrightianus - especially in buds
Another - cartwrightianus seedling
Started blooming the first niveus
And last again another mazziaricus aff. from Samos Island in Greece