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Gerry Webster

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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #390 on: October 26, 2008, 10:25:38 AM »
Thanks David. I find the variation in C. cartwrightianus fascinating. if I had the space I'd grow far more specimens.
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #391 on: October 26, 2008, 11:15:15 AM »
Space! The blight of the gardening classes ;D
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #392 on: October 26, 2008, 04:34:31 PM »
Crocus niveus

Ex a Jim Archibald seed collection (JCA5132), Greece, Messinia, S of Kalamata (1984). JCA pop. ref. 348.800.

This plant, like all the collected & seed raised  forms of C. niveus which I grow, is intolerant of winter wet.   



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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #393 on: October 26, 2008, 05:25:10 PM »
some pictures from this weekend
Cr.cartwrightianus in pale blue and white, seedlings from cartwrightianus Albus hort.
Cr.caspius, two pics
Cr.wattiorum, to warm for this flower
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #394 on: October 26, 2008, 05:32:45 PM »
more pictures
Cr.biflorus ssp.melantherus
    niveus
    laevigatus from Crete
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #395 on: October 26, 2008, 06:10:03 PM »
Dirk - beautiful crocus. C. biflorus subsp. melantherus is especially attractive
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #396 on: October 26, 2008, 10:05:11 PM »
Not seen wattiorum in 'captivity' before Dirk. Looks very special and definitely one I'll be looking for in due course.
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #397 on: October 27, 2008, 09:55:26 AM »
very fine plants. Thank you Dirk
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #398 on: October 27, 2008, 11:52:00 AM »
Dirk you are not short of melantherus then :o great display

Here is my first crocus from seed at least deliberately. The seeds were sown in Jan 2006 so I wasn't expecting them to flower yet a while. Is this normal? Be interesting to see how some of the spring flowering ones show later
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #399 on: October 27, 2008, 12:16:14 PM »
Ian

For banaticus I would suggest that is some kind of record   :o
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #400 on: October 27, 2008, 12:36:06 PM »
I was sent a corm that was supposedly melantherus but it wasn't and I got my money back.
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #401 on: October 27, 2008, 12:42:06 PM »
Dirk you have very nice crocuses  :o
Here I want to show some more photo from university garden. They have nice specieses but the slugs made big problems.
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #402 on: October 27, 2008, 12:48:50 PM »
Some really nice ones there folks.

Here's one of mine from a few small corms kindly sent to me by Tony Willis. Tony wasn't sure what the species would be but said that the corms were collected from Kosmos in the Greek Peleponnese. My guess would be Crocus boryi, am I correct??

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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #403 on: October 27, 2008, 01:00:15 PM »
And these are from another garden which is well-kept
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Re: Crocus October 2008
« Reply #404 on: October 27, 2008, 01:29:40 PM »
And here are some pics. from one old crocus garden. There were no more crocus in area only broken pots.
But still found somethings. These are grown from seeds.
First two, C. kotschyanus subsp. kotschyanus
Second one, it looks C. speciosus subsp. speciosus  :-\
Thirt one C. aumaniae  :-\
For last two I need yor confirmation..


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