Crocus April 2008

[Thomas Huber]

Why don't you get your mate Mr Huber to send you wild collected seed he gets down on the French Riviera? It's a much better plant but I have only a few."

Lesley, if my memory serves me right, I have already sent sent you some of my wild seeds in summer 2006!
Zhirair already mentioned what I only thought about your kotschyanus albus - it's pulchellus Zephyr!

[mark smyth]

and of course Aphids feed on my Crocus also

[ranunculus]

Hi Paul,
Please do not stop posting your superb pictures....I know viewing figures can sometimes be discouraging but it took me a while to realise that many members actually look at the thumbnail pictures (as I tend to do myself) but do not need to enlarge them to get the gist of the subject matter, because the smaller images are so clear and well-defined.  You will find that images of people, animals, garden settings, quirkiness, children and chocolate cakes will always gain the highest viewing counts.

[Paul T]

Cliff,

Yeah, but the chocolate cake figures are artificially high.... because certain people keep coming back to drool over them again and again!! 

[Guff]

A couple update pictures and vernus var heuffelianus? It doesn't look like one.

[Guff]

The above vernus var heuffelianus?, could be Graecus and they were tagged wrong. I did buy 6 corms of Graecus also, so maybe the tags were switched.
Now that I think about it, Thomas posted a picture of Graecus, and it does look like it.

[Thomas Huber]

The above vernus var heuffelianus?, could be Graecus and they were tagged wrong. I did buy 6 corms of Graecus also, so maybe the tags were switched.
Now that I think about it, Thomas posted a picture of Graecus, and it does look like it.

Guff, you're only partial right - Yes, I've posted such a photo of "what I received as Graecus"
but this plant is probably Crocus vernus "Haarlem Gem". Perhaps Luit can help to ID 100%!?

[Lvandelft]

Guff, you're only partial right - Yes, I've posted such a photo of "what I received as Graecus"
but this plant is probably Crocus vernus "Haarlem Gem". Perhaps Luit can help to ID 100%!?

There is a pict. in the Connoisseur Collection:

March 11th, reply #99   http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1331.90    Page 7.

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks Luit, but what is the plant Guff and I have

[Lvandelft]

Thanks Luit, but what is the plant Guff and I have

I tried to find a picture in this thread, Thomas.
But soooooooo very    s  l  o  w     at the moment.

Anyhow, you ARE the specialist.   

[Thomas Huber]

Anyhow, you ARE the specialist.   

I never said I am a specialist 

[Lvandelft]

But I did!   

[Guff]

I think they sent me 12 corms of  "Graecus" and none of vernus var heuffelianus. This is a picture of the flower bud, these are tagged "Graecus", doesn't look any different.

[Guff]

Thomas does 'Negro Boy' set seed and have pollen?  My Twilight's are about to open, maybe later today. The flower buds looks to be 'Negro Boy', they have the dark black tips, with the silver edge. I will see if I can get a picture later.

Thanks for info.

[HClase]

Crocus fleicherii is the last of my pots to flower, rather narrow petalled, but not too bad en masse.  It will be interesting to see if the corms planted outside did as well.  I think that the C. chrysanthus 'Princess Beatrix' I posted earlier wasn't, just a nurseryman's near miss, the original patch are just opening now and are much bluer especially on the outsides of the petals (I assume that's the right way round Thomas?). C tommasinianus is weedy here just as elsewhere. I've had the species, 'Whitewell Purple', and 'Ruby' over the years so the seedlings have a lot of genes to choose from, moslty they are uninteresting, there's an awful insipid pale mauve one with thin petals that unfortunately does rather well; but this one is a bit better looking - does it resemble any named cultivar?  C sieberi 'Hubert Edelsten', like several of the others is flowering up through the melting snow - the snow didn't fall on top of them.