Crocus October 2008

[tonyg]

I have great pleasure to see all your wonderfull crocuses .
I also would like to share some from my side which taken on wild and very cloase to my garden.
C. pulchellus.

That pulchellus with a darker zone in the throat is very nice.  Looks like it has large flowers too.

[ian mcenery]

Lovely pictures everyone. It is strange the way the flowering time varies so much geographically and even in  some cases to different areas of the garden. I sometimes wonder whether early flowering is as a result of being dried out in summer and new growth triggered by watering, as mine always seem to be late possibly because many are in the open garden and are kept moist( or this year and last WET). Any theories


 Here are a few of mine

[David Nicholson]

Here are a couple of mine from the greenhouse today. Bought as Crocus serotinus ssp.clusii 'Poseidon', and bought as C.cancellatus damascenus.

[mark smyth]

Ian mine are performing very poorly this autumn caused I suppose by our 10 week drought between April 5th and June 21st

[Gerry Webster]

Today the first of the serotinus ssp clusii 'Gwendoline Edwards' were open. They are very small maybe 6cm high and difficult to photograph. Is this normal? Does any know anything about this Crocus?

Mark - there is a short note about this crocus in The AGS Bull. vol 62, p429 (1994) following its showing by Alan Edwards the previous year. This note refers to a full description & illustration in vol 58, p356 (1990). Unfortunately I do not have the earlier volume

[mark smyth]

Thanks Gerry. Hopefully someone here keeps their AGS mags neat, tidy and in order

[Maggi Young]

That would be me, Mark! Busy at the minute, but will copy and get it posted asap   

[Gerry Webster]

There's a useful cumulative index to the AGS Bull. online at:
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/servlet/indexservlet?command=visitindex

[Maggi Young]

It appears that the plant was first brought to the RHS Joint Rock Plant Committee in 1989 by Alan Edwards and subsequently the form shown must have been given the cultivar name  'Gwendoline Edwards'

Here is the mention from the AGS Bulletin of 1994 and the photo and report from 1989............

[mark smyth]

thanks Maggi.

Here's one of my photos

[Gerry Webster]

Crocus serotinus subsp clusii 'Gwendoline Edwards'

This is Mike Ireland's photo from the AGS Bulletin but taken from the web. I think it gives a better idea of the colour.

[Gerry Webster]

Crocus laevigatus

Ex a Ray Cobb collection (CRO1012), Greece.
Corms & seeds were given to me by Alan Edwards some years ago

[Gerry Webster]

Crocus longiflorus

Ex an Alan Edwards collection, Italy,  Sicily,  Madonie Nebrodi.

[Gerry Webster]

Crocus cartwrightianus

Another form of this very variable plant. Ex a collection by Christian, Elliot & Hoog (CEH 613), Greece, Evvia, nr. Polipotamos (1982).                         

[David Nicholson]

Lovely examples Gerry, I particularly liked the cartwrightianus.