Crocus January 2010

[Gerry Webster]

Wim,
The laevigatus is very late though isn't it ??

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.

According to Brian Mathew, the flowering season for C. laevigatus extends from  October to March. Very late flowering ones occur in the Cyclades & they retain this habit in cultivation.

[Janis Ruksans]

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

Rik,
Michelsonii - correctly 'Odissey'
Superb artvinensis!
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Wim,
The laevigatus is very late though isn't it ??

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.

According to Brian Mathew, the flowering season for C. laevigatus extends from  October to March. Very late flowering ones occur in the Cyclades & they retain this habit in cultivation.

I pictured last spring in Kew C. laevigatus in full bloom in March. It was from Cyclades, Isle of Naxos, originally collected by Brian Mathew.
Janis

[annew]

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 ?

Kris,
They have just suddenly emerged in the last 4 days since temperature is above freezing. They may get much taller if it gets very warm. They are in a greenhouse kept above -2C, with the door left open as much as possible. This form of C. baytopiorum is easy to grow, so I take no credit for it!

[Alex]

Hi Anne, here's mine today, easily the neatest and best of the forms I have!


Alex

[krisderaeymaeker]

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.

Thanks Wim , want to try some species in the garden in the future and so we have an idea what is maybe good to try .

[mark smyth]

One Crocus from me and ex Janis. Another foggy day outside but just a glimpse of sun to take a couple of photos

Michael Hoog's Memory
korolkowii - I gave one away last year but to who?

[Ragged Robin]

Mark, your photos are superb of two lovely crocuses - who was Michael Hoog?  A wonderful crocus to remember him by.....bred by you?

[annew]

Alex, glad they are doing well for you, my narcissi have lots of buds!
Mark, they are super photos of these crocuses.

[mark smyth]

Thanks Anne and Robin. If only Crocus could be twin scaled. The cream korolkowii wouldnt need it. My darker apricot coloured form died in the summer

[Gerry Webster]

Mark, your photos are superb of two lovely crocuses - who was Michael Hoog?  A wonderful crocus to remember him by.....bred by you?

Michael Hoog was the last (I think) member of the Hoog family to be associated with the famous Dutch firm of van Tubergen.
The crocus - a form of C. sieberi -  was selected & named by Janis Ruksans.

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks for your reply, Gerry, it is always interesting to find out about how plants were named after people and their contributions to the plant world.  Having Googled Michael Hoog I found some wonderful old photos related to him and his family:

http://www.jcstoffels.nl/Fotogalerie.htm

...and the references to him in Janis's great book, 'Buried Treasure'.

[Gerry Webster]

Interesting photos Robin. I see one of them includes a young Antoine Hoog who is now quite famous in the bulb world as a collector & supplier. He carries on the family tradition but from  Brittany rather than the Netherlands.

[winwen]

One Crocus from me and ex Janis. Another foggy day outside but just a glimpse of sun to take a couple of photos

Michael Hoog's Memory
korolkowii - I gave one away last year but to who?

Hi Mark,

the secondcrocus -is this a "Snow Leopard"?

[David Nicholson]

Seems an age since I had a Crocus in flower so here is C. gargaricus ssp. herbertii after a spell on the kitchen window sill.