Crocus September 2008

[Thomas Huber]

Thomas - Very interesting. I'll have a look at  my own specimens of Anne's plants in due course - they are only just showing. BM (p60) seems to imply that all forms of C.hadriaticus have a hairy throat & I would guess that his description was based on both living plants & herbarium specimens. I would imagine that Herbert's description was based entirely on dried, herbarium material. I wonder how well throat hairs survive  in such material?

This was exactly my thought, but I would never assume that Herbert has done careless observations!

[art600]

Herewith first flowers on the bargain pot of Crocus banaticus.  Picture quality not good as summer ended as quickly as it started and I did not want to use flash.

The Crocus on the left is a first flowering of speciosus ssp. xantholaimos from Jim Archibald seed.  The Sternbergia greuteriana is one I was recently given, originating from the Omalos Plateau in Crete - it is significantly smaller than the 3 other pots I have.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very worthwhile waiting for Art !
Love them all !!

[Gerry Webster]

Last week I bought back copies of the Plantsman magazine from March and June 2002 that have articles from Brian Mathews.

Mark - where did you buy them? Locally? They are not currently listed on Abebooks.

[Gerry Webster]

The Sternbergia greuteriana is one I was recently given, originating from the Omalos Plateau in Crete - it is significantly smaller than the 3 other pots I have.

Art - the S.greuteriana is small & really nice It also seems to have much narrower leaves than other plants I have seen. Am I right in thinking it came from Peter M?

[art600]

Gerry

It was Melvyn J who gave me the greuteriana this year.

[mark smyth]

http://www.rhs.org.uk/Learning/Publications/pubs_journals_plantsman.htm

March has 13 pages and 17 photos

I want would like C. gotoburgensis 'Ember'

June has 10 pages and 13 photos

I lust after sieberi 'Midas Touch'

[annew]

Are we coming to any decisions then, friends? Or is the deciding part of the fun? 

[Gerry Webster]

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Edit - sorry Martin,  during the night I  remembered the correct version.

[Martin Baxendale]

It is better to travel than to arrive.

Not on First Great Western trains it isn't!

[David Shaw]

A couple of Crocus pulchellus.

[Gerry Webster]

Crocus ex Marcus Harvey

For a number of years I've had a form of Crocus niveus  said to be raised from Marcus Harvey seed. I obtained it as full-sized corms. It multiplies readily but has never flowered & shows no inclination to do so. I wonder if any friends in NZ or Australia have any experience or useful knowledge of this plant before I dispose of it as a waste of space.
(I first posted this on the Crocus SH thread. Either no one saw it or no one has any comment)

[rob krejzl]

Gerry,

Saw your comment on the other thread, but can't volunteer much to help you. The only (public) offering of C. niveus seed from Marcus I know of was in 02/03 - an 800m collection from around Mani.

[Lesley Cox]

I've bought C. niveus Lilac form from Marcus twice now and optomistic though I am by nature, I'm hard put to see much lilac in the colouring. One corm (of 6) had the merest slight suggestion of not quite white colouring.

[Boyed]

few  pics of my crocuses
many started to bloom just at the beginning of september, but I was lasy to photograph and resize the pics; to be more clear there is a lot to do in the garden.

crocus goulimyi
crocus goulimyi 'Many White' - superb cultivar, vigorous, abundant bloomer and good increaser
crocus longiflorus