Crocus September 2019

[Maggi Young]

Janis - that tomato is HUGE - but  does  it  taste  good??

[sokol]

Three Crocus, flowering today.

Crocus cancellatus sample RUDA-061:



Crocus pallasii from Crimea:



Crocus brachyphilus:

[pehe]

Lovely pics Stefan!

Crocus autranii has started flowering today:

Crocus autranii in front of scharojanii flavus
Autranni seedlings

Poul

[Yann]

it's admirable, do you shade your cold frame in summer Poul?

[pehe]

it's admirable, do you shade your cold frame in summer Poul?

When it is really hot, I put on a white mesh screen, and water a little so they never dry out.

Poul

[sokol]

Some Crocus from yesterday and the next ones are already showing noses. I am also a bit surprised as it was rather hot here till the end of August.

Crocus hakariensis



Crocus salzmannii

[pehe]

2 pots of Crocus vallicola x scharojanii flavus

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis - that tomato is HUGE - but  does  it  taste  good??

Sorry for late reply, but I was in Ukraine and I forgot my password to log-in by my laptop.
The tomatoes variety name is 'Sugar Giant' and it is very tasteful. By the way, I'm planting in my greenhouse only pure cultivars, not F-1 hybrids. Young plants I'm buying from President of Latvian Tomato Grower Association. In her collection are grown 1500 cultivars of tomatoes.

[StevenS]

Today I discovered this C. hadriaticus flower, this should be 'C. hadriaticus GR 70/08' but I suspect it was mistakenly labelled by the sender and could be 'C. hadriaticus f. lilacinus' but am not certain, could anyone confirm this please?

[barnclos]

Some rain followed by sunshine and C. hadriaticus has shot up.


This was at 10:06 this morning


... and at 14:18
 

[Maggi Young]

As the  autumn flowering  crocus spread their  joy,  I  am  pleased to  learn that Janis Ruksans  still has  some  copies  of  his  book, The  World Of  Crocuses for  sale.  You can read  more  about this  excellent  book here  :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=15246.0 

You  may email Janis via     janis.bulb@hawk.lv   to arrange to  buy a  copy.

[Roma]

The first Crocus pulchellus to flower

[pehe]

An early Crocus speciosus
Crocus vallicola and the same with scharojanii flavus

[Janis Ruksans]

Yesterday I was visited by Alex Harvey, son of famous Australian nurseryman Marcus Harvey, who died from cancer at 64. He was great friend of me and great lower of crocuses. He found new crocus on Ikaria Island and send its seeds to me under label - Crocus nubigena. When it flowered with me for the first time, I immediately saw that it is new species and I wrote to Eric Pasche about it. As Marcus just recently died, I proposed for Eric to name it after discoverer of this species as Crocus harveyi, but getting no reply from him (our interrelations cooled after publishing my book and some critics to his research partner Helmut Kerndorff), I described it by myself and it was published as Crocus harveyi in International Rock Gardener (#90, June 2017). Now in greenhouse is blooming culmination of Crocus speciosus, Crocus turcicus and Crocus salzmannii. On attached pictures I together with Alex Harvey, Crocus harveyi and now blooming part of C. speciosus collection.

[Janis Ruksans]

Marvellously blooms hybrid between Crocus ilgazensis and C. pulchellus (made by bees and grown up from C. ilgazensis seeds). I named it FANTASY, because parentage, although clearly visible on flowers, are not 100% certain.