Crocus Year 2021

[Leena]

Crocus heuffelianus pictures posted earlier in April are so beautiful! It is one of my most favourite crocuses out in the garden.
I planted five bulbs from Janis in 2015, four came up in spring 2016 and now they have multiplied so well that I should have divided them already last year, and this year I must do it for sure.
All four are a bit different and my favourite is the palest one with white tips in the second picture. This is a really great crocus in the garden, not too big and pompous, and not too small, and so good increaser.

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Crocus cartwrightianus ex 'Halloween' SRGC Seedex 2015 sown 21-05-2016
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[Tristan_He]

Crocus heuffelianus pictures posted earlier in April are so beautiful! It is one of my most favourite crocuses out in the garden.
I planted five bulbs from Janis in 2015, four came up in spring 2016 and now they have multiplied so well that I should have divided them already last year, and this year I must do it for sure.
All four are a bit different and my favourite is the palest one with white tips in the second picture. This is a really great crocus in the garden, not too big and pompous, and not too small, and so good increaser.

Wow Leena, that's a good rate of increase!

I don't find it increases as much as you do, but I have been getting some increase of late and am now getting quite a nice little clump. Which reminds me... must check the seedpods.

[Leena]

Here I have never had seedpods in my C.heuffelianus. Just last week when I took those pictures I saw bumblebees in them, so pollination should not be a problem, but there are never seed pods. Maybe cold nights are the problem here. So, I'm very happy with them increasing with bulbs instead.

[Yann]

Crocus cartwrightianus ex 'Halloween' SRGC Seedex 2015 sown 21-05-2016
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Just collected seeds of this species, a favorite.

[pehe]

The autumn season has almost started.
I have just discovered flower shoots on Crocus scharojanii seedlings from 2016

Poul

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Crocus gargaricus ssp gargaricus - the first pic taken yesterday,
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Crocus etruscus putting up its first flower. Seed from The Crocus Group 2016 sown April 2017.
Commercial stocks of this are mostly virused so I hope that I can keep this one "clean"!
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Pics of Crocus gargaricus ssp gargaricus, the first two in the morning and the others this afternoon.
I hope that the visitor in the last pic is ensuring some seed set!
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[pehe]

Pics of Crocus gargaricus ssp gargaricus, the first two in the morning and the others this afternoon.
I hope that the visitor in the last pic is ensuring some seed set!
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fermi

Lovely pictures!

It is nice to see some spring Crocus

[pehe]

Crocus scharojanii has started flowering today.
Sown 2016 and flowering for the first time.

Poul

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Crocus flavus - the same colour as the fallen Mexican Hawthorn fruit!
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[Janis Ruksans]

Colchicums are harvested and some already blooms (C. parnassicum & paschei), some I started to re-pot. Always problems with re-potting of C. davisii due its corm shape. The "foot" (hypopodia) is quite brittle, but from it starts new growth and roots. Step by step I harvest and repot crocuses. Some made huge corms (Crocus hatayensis) and only 9 enter 15x15 cm large pot, some already formed new shoots (C. suworowianus), but some (mostly W Turkish annulate tunic species) grew quite moderately, but in general looks much better than last year regardless of smaller size.

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Apparently Janis only recently described this species, Crocus rhodensis, in The International Rock Gardener!
I received the seeds from Marcus Harvey via Jacqui Gulbis and sowed them in April 2018.
First flower opened today!
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[Maggi Young]

Apparently Janis only recently described this species, Crocus rhodensis, in The International Rock Gardener!
I received the seeds from Marcus Harvey via Jacqui Gulbis and sowed them in April 2018.
First flower opened today!
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Yes, indeed!  In IRG 64 of April 2015:  https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Apr231429824727IRG64.pdf