Crocus January 2018

[Janis Ruksans]

as you mention le grey sky doesn't help the buds to open.
Here's one from you: Crocus sakaltutanensis, an absolute stunner!
Crocus sieberi 'Hubert Edelsten' , outside they has been eaten by slugs.

Thank you, I like sakaltutanensis very much, it is so different from neighbours and others, that you can immediately note it between hundreds.

[Janis Ruksans]

Here started winter. Last night we had minus 11 C and still there are no snow at all. On Sunday morning, after two days and nights with almost constant temperature -7 to minus 9 C, I pluck off last "autumn" blooming crocus flowers - mostly melantherus, laevigatus, pumilus and some last niveus, goulimyi, aleppicus and maid a list of spring bloomers which showed well developed flower buds, and this list turned quite long - alatavicus, antherotes, baytopiorum, fauseri, hittiticus, korolkowii, olivieri, randjeloviciorum, tauricus, uschakensis and may be some more, not everyone was noted and registered. Then followed covering with glass-wool. It took half day. On attached picture you can see how looks my greenhouse today at 11-00 in morning, when bright sun something warmed up greenhouse. The temperature in greenhouse raised up to minus 1.5 (minimum last night was -9), under cover at top of pots it is zero, but at bottom of pots + 1.5. Actually that is almost ideal, and if there was not some damage from frost in the first 2 nights without cover, seem that crocuses can overwinter well. Of course, if there will not come unexpected heat waves or very extreme frost. I'm every day checking max/min temperatures both in greenhouse air and over cover, just below cover and at bottom of pots.

[Yann]

Janis do you let an empty air's layer between the panels and the raised bed?

[Tony Willis]

horrible weather here,dark and wet but not cold only down to -2c at night and upto 12c in the greenhouse at times during the day.

Lots of crocuses showing buds,just need some warmth to open

Crocus cyprius my own seed collection in 1995

[sokol]

Janis do you let an empty air's layer between the panels and the raised bed?

And how good is the isolation of these white stones? Is it colder at the side as in the middle or not?

[sokol]

horrible weather here,dark and wet but not cold only down to -2c at night and upto 12c in the greenhouse at times during the day.

Lots of crocuses showing buds,just need some warmth to open

Crocus cyprius my own seed collection in 1995

Nice collection!

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis do you let an empty air's layer between the panels and the raised bed?

No. The glass-wool sheets (5 cm thick) lies just on crocus leaves, shoots, pots.

[Tony Willis]

Crocus veluchensis Mt Olympus

[ian mcdonald]

Janis, your greenhouse looks bigger than my garden.

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis, your greenhouse looks bigger than my garden.

It is 400 square meters large. In another of same size bulbs are planted in ground and no covering there is provided. From that bulbs slowly goes out and sold according catalogue. When it will be free (I hope it will take not more than 2-3 years) I hope to grow there some peaches, grapes, vegetables.
The list of my new catalogue is prepared, but still no prices, descriptions, pictures are attached, so you can only see on my home page what will be offered this season, but no orders at present can be accepted.

[Yann]

ok Janis.
Here it's spring in the greenhouse

Crocus leichtlinii

[Tony Willis]

Crocus nivalis and

Crocus biflorus alexandri

[Janis Ruksans]

Last year I sent one corm of pink Crocus alatavicus to Japan. This morning got mail with photo of it in Japan. My customer wrote me:  "Pink alatavicus" blooms from yesterday. It was a color really same as an image. It is impressive beauty. I thank for what you handed over. ... A wrinkle caused ... by ups and downs of the temperature had intense, a leaf, a flower seemed to remain too much in bract at long time." Picture from Japan attached.

My own corm is with well coloured bud out, but now it is under glass-wool covering, so it is waiting for opening at last days of February (if weather will allow), when I'm arranging open door days or CROCUS DAYS in my nursery from 1-6th of March and from 9-20th of March. Visitors then are welcome.

Janis
 

[Janis Ruksans]

MY NEW OFFER WAS OPENED YESTERDAY LATE EVENING - see http://www.rarebulbs.lv/index.php/en/

[Tony Willis]

Crocus biflorus pulchricolor x chrysanthus natural hybrid Turkey,Ulu Dag