Crocus January 2018

[Yann]

i'm speechless Janis 
Luc that's a nice collection you show us.

[Yann]

Crocus sieberi sublimis and weldenii, sun is needed they don't open

[Maggi Young]

Crocus sieberi sublimis and weldenii, sun is needed they don't open

Who can blame them?!   More sun would be  a treat for us all - too wet and dark here.

[Jacek]

Today was my first garden tour this spring (OK, we don't have spring here, yet). No pictures, though - camera does not want to cooperate with crutches.

Snowdrops and first C. coum are open. Winter aconites in yellow buds - nice, but very early here.

Oddly enough, the first fully developed crocus ready to open, waiting for the first glimpse of spring is C. etruscus. No other crocus show any visible flower buds. In the previous years earlier were C. korolkowii and C. ancyrensis. Now I can't see them - may be they perished, they don't like my garden. I have two clones of C. etruscus: Zwanenburg of commercial origin and Rosalind from Latvia (but not from Janis). I cannot see any difference in flowers, but the only developed buds are on Rosalind. Is it possible that they differ so much in timing? Or I have something else, not Rosalind?

[Jacek]

Forgot to add - all your pics are so nice. In my garden commercial plants still dominate, nothing very special. Still nice though.

[Paul Cumbleton]

Crocus tommasinianus 'Bobbo' - I got this form from Desirable Plants and this is the information they give about it: "A distinctive old cultivar of the classic slender flowered spring crocus whose leaves are quite well expanded at flowering time. Flowers lilac-pink with a white throat and white tips. The outsides of the closed flowers are wonderfully pale and pearly, a great consolation if happens hit its peak in a run of cloudy days. Named by E.A. Bowles ‘to remind me of the sharp-eyed boy who was the first to spot it’ and given to us by John Foster who, as a lad, met EAB himself."

Paul