Crocus October 2008

[mark smyth]

Luc my speciosus are only just coming up in the garden. My white ones, in pots, were up first and are now almost over.

If you own C. pulchellus you have to smell it. I've just brought mine in to a sunyy windowsil for photos. The scent is really good

[olegKon]

Thanks to everyone for clarification and appreciation
Oleg

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Luc my speciosus are only just coming up in the garden. My white ones, in pots, were up first and are now almost over.

Ok - in that case I can still hope ... 

[Gerry Webster]

If you own C. pulchellus you have to smell it. I've just brought mine in to a sunyy windowsil for photos. The scent is really good

Mark - I do & I have. Mine just smells of plant. We must have different clones. It's a very attractive crocus though, far more so to my eyes than its relative C. speciosus. If it flowered with the leaves it would be perfect.

[David Shaw]

Welcome to a new Croconut - Pip appreciating a pot of Crocus banaticus.

[Brian Ellis]

Ok - in that case I can still hope ...

Yes Luc, mine only came through in the last couple of days.

[Martin Baxendale]

If you own C. pulchellus you have to smell it. I've just brought mine in to a sunyy windowsil for photos. The scent is really good

I have a lot of seed-raised pulchellus and I've noticed (especially when you pick the flowers, as I did the other day before the latest rain and wind - to enjoy and use for making crosses) that the scent is quite variable; some have a strong honey-scent, others less so and some hardly any.

[Maggi Young]

Best scented crocus today is C. hadriaticus- really delicious sweet smell... lovely in the sunshine 
I expect that pix will appear in next week's BulbLog 

[Michael J Campbell]

1 Could someone ID this one please, There is just a ? on the label

2 Crocus niveus blue form.

3 crocus goulimyi main white.

4 Crocus speciosus aitchsionii ?

Please feel free to correct names.

[Gerry Webster]

Crocus hadriaticus

This is the exceptionally handsome form distributed by Anne Wright. There has been a good deal of discussion on the forum concerning the correct name of this form. If we follow Brian Mathew’s last thoughts (2002) it will be known simply as C.hadriaticus since he suggests  that the species is so variable that we should “ignore all infraspecific taxa.”

[Maggi Young]

Gerry, I hope you pressed your nose into those gorgeous flowers?

[Gerry Webster]

Michael - no 1 looks like a very good colour form of C. cartwrightianus.

Edit: on a second look there seems to be a suggestion of a yellow throat? If it is yellow, this would rule out C. cartwrightianus.

[Gerry Webster]

Gerry, I hope you pressed your nose into those gorgeous flowers?

Maggi - that's a treat for tomorrow. Shoot first & smell later is my motto at present. I'm such a hopelessly  amateur photographer that all my attention is devoted to getting a half-way acceptable image.

[Anthony Darby]

That Crocus hadriaticus is a real stunner Gerry, and No. is lovely too Michael. Here as some more open today: kotschyanus and pallasii from SRGC seed and serotinus from Portugal.

[Tony Willis]

Gerry that is really lovely.

I also enjoyed yours Anthony,a sunny day certainly brings them out