Crocus January 2010

[Janis Ruksans]

Hi.
This crocus species is from Turkey, Middle Anatolia, Karaman province.
I check all the yellow crocus but I couldn't match any of them.
What do you think about it.

My first impression - danfordiae. What is the size of flower?
Janis

[annew]

An hour of SUN today brought these two almost out. I almost like them better at this stage. Crocus baytopiorum and Crocus korolkowii Mountain Glory.

[Hendrik Van Bogaert]

Best friends,
Herewith some rarities, flowering last Sunday during a rare moment of sunshine:
Crocus biflorus ssp. artvinensis and 2 forms of Crocus michelsonii.
Hendrik

[annew]

Very delicate markings, Hendrik.

[krisderaeymaeker]

All beautys Rik ,but  I like this Odissy most .
It looks that you got a lot to expect in the near future.

[mark smyth]

tomorrow will be sunny all day so hopefully I'll get some photos

[Alex]

Nice baytopiorum, Anne, and the corms you sent me are also flowering. I am very pleased with it since it is beautiful and etiolates far less than my other forms! It's almost normal with me. I hope the Narcissus are doing OK, I have a pot full of about 40 flowers coming which I'll photograph when it's out.

Cheers,

Alex

[Gerry Webster]

An hour of SUN today brought these two almost out. I almost like them better at this stage. Crocus baytopiorum and Crocus korolkowii Mountain Glory.

Anne - your photos, both of crocus & narcissus, are very impressive. How do you do it?

[annew]

Hmm, I use aperture priority on my camera, can't usually be bothered with a tripod, delete most and have to tweak the rest in Photoshop!

[WimB]

Some Crocus that are flowering here now:

Crocus alatavicus
Crocus korolkowii
Crocus laevigatus

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Anne,
Lovely C. baytopiorum !! (so much shorter than mine  )

Rik,
Some great looking Crocus !
biflorus artvinensis is beautifully marked !!   
Not one I have seen before..

Wim,
Don't forget to show alatavicus again when it's open !! Looks great !
The laevigatus is very late though isn't it ??

[WimB]

Luc,

the laevigatus grows outside so maybe it's late because of the cold weather we had the last month. I have some other laevigatus that are just showing buds so its isn't my last flowering laevigatus.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Anne , not only beautiful pictures but also great plants.They look very healthy and it looks that they are grown hard .I think so because they are very squat ...
How you succeed ?

Wim ,nice plants .Are there other species you grow outside with succes in our wet country ?
(I mean botanical species and not the strong hybrids from the garden center) 

[mark smyth]

Anne is your camera point and shoot or DSLR? I love the combination of the two colours of your korolkowii.

So much for a weather forcast of bright sunshine all day across Ireland. Wherever I went today was foggy

[WimB]

Kris,

I grow the following species outside:

Crocus abantensis
Crocus alatavicus
Crocus antalyensis ‘Sky Blue’
Crocus banaticus
Crocus chrysanthus ‘Sunspot’
Crocus chrysanthus ‘Uschak Orange’
Crocus dalmaticus ‘Petrovac’
Crocus flavus ssp. flavus
Crocus fleischeri
Crocus fleischeri ‘Gulek Pass’
Crocus gargaricus herbertii
Crocus goulimyi
Crocus hadriaticus
Crocus korolkowii
Crocus kotschyanus
Crocus laevigatus
Crocus longiflorus
Crocus niveus
Crocus nudiflorus
Crocus pallassii
Crocus sieberi ‘Tricolor’
Crocus veluchensis
Crocus vernus ssp. vernus var. heuffelianus ‘Carpathian wonder’

some of them with more success then others. I grow the ones that like a dry summer rest against a south facing wall in a very sandy soilmix which get covered in summer.