Author Topic: Crocus Year 2021 (Read 31007 times)

Maggi Young · « **Reply #105 on:** April 01, 2021, 04:47:11 PM »

Selection of Crocus abantensis 'Azkaban's Escapee' - my real favourite.

Selection of Crocus sieberi 18-01 - Omalos plain, Crete.

Still are blooming very few of latest crocuses - this one is Crocus albiflorus TCH-3608 - from Switzerland, Engstlensee

The darkest yellow Crocus danfordiae RUDA-099

This was grown from seeds received by seed exchange from AGS as Crocus artvinensis

Maggi Young · « **Reply #106 on:** April 01, 2021, 04:48:18 PM »

True Crocus cvijicii 13MCY-058 from N Macedonia - one of the latest crocuses at end March.

True Crocus cvijicii 13MCY-058 is pale yellow to almost white and growing only in North Macedonia

Tristan_He · « **Reply #107 on:** April 01, 2021, 05:48:19 PM »

Not just Iris then - what an incredible collection!

Is it just me or does a cultivar called 'Azkaban's Escape' make anyone feel old?

Maggi Young · « **Reply #108 on:** April 01, 2021, 06:13:41 PM »

Quote from: Tristan_He on April 01, 2021, 05:48:19 PM

Not just Iris then - what an incredible collection!

Is it just me or does a cultivar called 'Azkaban's Escape' make anyone feel old?

Surely that can't make a youngster like you feel old, Tristan?!!
edit ti add - Oh dear, I just looked up the year of that book and it appears to be 1982

So yes, I can see it would make you feel old!!(I was in my prime!!- she said, hoping no-one would notice that that now makes her an old lady!)

I've never read any Harry Potter books myself !( I'm too mean to buy them and when I tried to take them out of the library they were always already out on loan - in the end I gave up!)

Hoy · « **Reply #109 on:** April 01, 2021, 07:19:55 PM »

Maggi,
that Crocus artvinensis is nice! Never seen anything like it.

Mostly ordinary ones in my lawn

Tristan_He · « **Reply #110 on:** April 01, 2021, 07:53:29 PM »

Quote from: Maggi Young on April 01, 2021, 06:13:41 PM

Surely that can't make a youngster like you feel old, Tristan?!!
edit ti add - Oh dear, I just looked up the year of that book and it appears to be 1982 So yes, I can see it would make you feel old!!(I was in my prime!!- she said, hoping no-one would notice that that now makes her an old lady!)

I've never read any Harry Potter books myself !( I'm too mean to buy them and when I tried to take them out of the library they were always already out on loan - in the end I gave up!)

1982? That would be fine, I was 10! But according to my sources (a Prof. W. Pedia), the Prisoner of Azkaban was published in 1999. But maybe the Crocus is from 1982 and JK Rowling is a secret crocus lover? In fact... J R(owling) / J R(uksans)... it's got to be!

Tristan_He · « **Reply #111 on:** April 01, 2021, 07:59:55 PM »

The books are quite fun by the way - not Great Literature by any means but a nice thing to read with children / grandchildren (delete as applicable). The earlier ones are more fun though, I found the later ones a bit verbose and po-faced.

And by the way, if we are looking at Harry Potter names, I think that extraordinary bluish C. baytopiorum could be called 'Veela'.

Leena · « **Reply #112 on:** April 03, 2021, 07:29:15 AM »

What wonderful views in Janis's greenhouses, and all the different kinds. Thank you for showing them.

Tim Harberd · « **Reply #113 on:** April 03, 2021, 12:11:42 PM »

Hi Maggi,
Thanks for posting Janis's pics...
I enjoyed them... And will probably go through them again later!
Tim DH

Maggi Young · « **Reply #114 on:** April 07, 2021, 03:40:22 PM »

A few more pix from Janis - he says " Blooming of crocuses practically ended, but in this entry I'm showing seedlings which are raised from Crocus heuffelianus, mostly with "blood" of cv. 'Carpathian Wonder' - this species good grower here in garden and well selfsowing if not great autumn cleaning in garden is realized.