Crocus January - 2009

[Tony Willis]

Ian thanks for the comments,as you will see the C. chrysanthus is falling over and the fleischeri will be by tomorrow. I did not show you the ones I could not photgraph. I think gardeners always complain.February is usually my best month when its cold and bright and they are growing slowly.

Anne I have not noticed the scent and as to the stripes they are quite variable in the amount but are usually very fine and  never really obscurs the white

[ian mcenery]

Tony my chrysanthus sp always fall over I think these need to be kept particulalry lean and mean with very high light levels. Perhaps the recently started thread on supplementay lighting http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2938.msg64222;topicseen#newmight offer a solution to the British climate   

[Maggi Young]

Corcus seem to manage reasonably well with us, even in low light levels... possibly they just look reasonable because their leaves are sturdy and hold them up! Narcissus are a different matter.... they do tend to flop quite a lot. Light levels in our bulb houses are awful, position by neighbouring trees, dirty glass (  )  climate .... I could go on...... If we were to take a pot of crocus out of the plunge I expect some might well flop a bit..... we don't take them out, though, because we know that because of the smaller pots we are using these days, the chances are that their roots will be out into the plunge and will take offence at being torn up as we raise out the pot. That's why Ian's pix are so often taken in situ!

[fermi de Sousa]

Tony what well grown plants which are nice and compact and you complaining that they are being drawn. Mine are always drawn I think I will have to move house to find a place with more sunlight.

Ian,
House prices in Australia should be falling because of the GFC
cheers
fermi

[Janis Ruksans]

My Crocus cyprius - of course - growable only in greenhouse, here.
Janis

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful stuff everyone !!    Hard to choose which I like best - so many beauties !!
And so early by our standards - most of my crocus grow in the garden where the soil is now slowly thawing up and there's barely any sign of life !

[Tony Willis]

Tony my chrysanthus sp always fall over I think these need to be kept particulalry lean and mean with very high light levels. Perhaps the recently started thread on supplementay lighting http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2938.msg64222;topicseen#newmight offer a solution to the British climate   

Ian not with my finances ! I shall just bend over and look at them sideways.

Janis I grow all mine inside although I think some of the wetter growing ones would be fine outside but they would just get lost in the garden and I try and keep them documented.

[ian mcenery]

Tony what well grown plants which are nice and compact and you complaining that they are being drawn. Mine are always drawn I think I will have to move house to find a place with more sunlight.

Ian,
House prices in Australia should be falling because of the GFC
cheers
fermi

Fermi I think the light might be a touch better in Oz. And my aches and pains might benefit from being a little warmer but Pam  wouldn't leave her (oh and mine)  babies so the crocuses will have just have to flop 

[mark smyth]

Reading the December 96 AGS bulletin I realise I have been spelling chrysanthus 'Ushak Orange' wrong for years I've been spelling it 'Uschak'. Doh!

[Maggi Young]

Reading the December 96 AGS bulletin I realise I have been spelling chrysanthus 'Ushak Orange' wrong for years I've been spelling it 'Uschak'. Doh!

 It comes up with the Uschak spelling in the RHS listings  and in Janis' book .....       
 That's good enough for me!

[mark smyth]

Is Alan Edwards wrong when he wrote the description or could it be a spelling mistake that has become the norm?

[Maggi Young]

Well, given that it is Uschak in the RHS database, the Plantfinder and Janis' book, I rather think it is a typo in the Bulletin. Let's face it, we are all good at getting names confused and making typos... also, for Brits, there is the added confusion of "foreign" names... it's just not a national strength, is it?

[ashley]

Presumably it's a transliteration of Uşak, the province in western Turkey.

[mark smyth]

5 mentions including the village name.

[Gerry Webster]

I learn from the net that the name of the Turkish city & province is written Usak, with a cedilla - a little hook -  under the 's'.  It is apparently pronounced Ushak. The accepted name for the crocus seems to be 'Uschak Orange'  which I would guess is an anglicised version.  

Edit: Ashley - how did you get the cedilla?