Crocus autumn - 2020

[Gerdk]

Crocus laevigatus in the greenhouse, i sown many pots form different sources, now it's time to select the best forms.

Yann, this is a laevigatus which I received from you - I guess not bad!

Gerd

[Roma]

The last Crocus pulchellus for this year.  I photographed the first one on September 9th.

[Yann]

Yann, this is a laevigatus which I received from you - I guess not bad!

Gerd

He seems to like its new home 

[Pauli]

Melantherus, goulimyi and speciosus still in nice flower...

[ashley]

Crocus caspius

[johnw]

A surprise today, Crocus serotinus subsp. salzmannii CGroup 2015-138 is in flower.

johnw
58F & sunny

[Yann]

Crocus laevigatus, i like the green tones

[Janis Ruksans]

Again some "spring" crocuses try to run out. May be Crocus hittiticus blooming now must be reclassified as autumn-spring blooming? Last years it always started in December and continued up to spring. Yesterday all the day was snowing. We had strong storm a week ago and one huge spruce (around 90 years old) was broken over Guna's hosta beds, so we got marvelous Christmas tree even with cones to be placed in front yard of our house. On Sunday I put lights on it and yesterday it was additionally decorated with snow. But my main joy - this morning finished 3 weeks old job on my new offer for 2021. Several new rare crocuses are included. You can see it on http://www.rarebulbs.lv/index.php/en/

[Janis Ruksans]

More and more crocuses are coming out. Today I fixed C. stridii, C. demirizianus, 2 forms of C. fleischeri, C. punctatus. And 2 reticulata irises are blooming, one more muscari (new species from high altitudes in NE Turkay over Altiparmak - offered in new catalogue, too).
As there are no sun last days, flowers didn't open but stay in tight buds.

[Maggi Young]

More and more crocuses are coming out. Today I fixed C. stridii, C. demirizianus, 2 forms of C. fleischeri, C. punctatus. And 2 reticulata irises are blooming, one more muscari (new species from high altitudes in NE Turkay over Altiparmak - offered in new catalogue, too).
As there are no sun last days, flowers didn't open but stay in tight buds.

Nice  to see the  elegant  form of the  closed  buds!

Wonderful to read your  new  list, Janis!     http://www.rarebulbs.lv/index.php/en/

[Tomte]

But my main joy - this morning finished 3 weeks old job on my new offer for 2021. Several new rare crocuses are included. You can see it on http://www.rarebulbs.lv/index.php/en/

And so early.. I did not expect the list to be finished before Christmas. What a (nice) surprise.

[Gail]

Crocus niveus, late form, nicely scented.

[Yann]

I'm also waiting several late blossoms, don't know what's happen this year.

[Catwheazle]

Hi Tomte,
"Upper Bavaria" is close to Allgäu:-)
Greetings
Berrnd

[Janis Ruksans]

I don't like bringing of crocus pots from greenhouse into room. My first attempts with replacing of pots on bathrooms windowsill ended with great losses in crop and a pair of very rare plants were lost forever. But there are situations as last season and again this winter when weather is so mild, that some crocuses hurry to come out and stay in closed buds due lack of light and regardless of minor + C degrees, it is quite cool even under cover. And I keep all doors open to press down inner temperature. Some of those are rarities and I need their seeds - so nothing left than bring them for only a pair of hours in warm kitchen to open tightly closed buds, pollinate and immediately back into greenhouse. Even this by my last years experience shows that crocuses don't like such "forcing", actually this could be compared with raping.
In this entry I'm showing very special crocus which I got from Ibrahim as seeds. He gave me some seeds supposing that it s new, autumn blooming species as ripe seeds were collected wild in February. But it turned identical with Crocus demirizianus published by Osman Erol, and collected by me, too at its locus classicus. Regardless of identity by morphology, Ibrahim's plants always blooms earlier than those from type locality - this season it happens just now.