Crocus in pots March 2010

[David Nicholson]

Lovely display Dirk.

[mark smyth]

Rainbow Gold - wolf whistle

[Maggi Young]

the spring is back, some flowers today

unusual late, a pale form from Crocus michelsonii, Kopet Dag, Iran
Cr.veluchensis x cvijicii `Rainbow Gold`, in my list this year

That pale michelsonii is VERY beautiful, Dirk.

'Rainbow Gold ' is different...... you'd think there would be more blue colour in the rainbow, wouldn't you, with the veluchensis blood?

[udo]

Maggi, crosses between blue and yellow flowers bring often flowers in a brown colour,
see also Cr.paulinae.
Here some new flowers from these Saturday:
Crocus biflorus ssp.adami
          michelsonii from Faruj, thanks Arthur
          suaveolens
          imperati, thanks Thomas

[Graeme Strachan]

A touch of sun and warmer temperatures today.
Along with some other people I note that quite a few of my crocus are pretty small this year –especially the corsicus and some of the olivieri ssp. balansae zwanenburg. We had a colder than normal winter and I presume this was the cause.

                 Graeme

[Lesley Cox]

Cr.veluchensis x cvijicii `Rainbow Gold`, in my list this year


'Rainbow Gold ' is different...... you'd think there would be more blue colour in the rainbow, wouldn't you, with the veluchensis blood?

From the three batches I've grown from this cross (bees, not of my own making) some have been like Dirk's, some pale yellow and some entirely blue. The seed in each case has been taken from C. cvijicii. I've shown them before on the Forum.

[Ragged Robin]

Gorgeous looking potfuls of crocus Udo and Graeme, thank you; seeing them together like this is a great way to learn about the differences and eventually learn to ID, I hope 

[mark smyth]

my green house is now empty of Crocus All over for spring 2010

[udo]

more flowers:
Cr.aerius `Albus`, grown from wild coll.seed Soganli Gec, NE-Turkey
    candidus var.subflavus, possibly a cross between candidus and olivieri
    flavus from Bulgaria, a nice orange and good flourish form

    the difference between Cr.imperati and suaveolens:
    imperati with a short bract and bracteole, red style
    suaveolens with a long bract, orange style

[tonyg]

Magnificent as always Dirk.  Where did you find Crocus aerius albus?  I only acquired the 'normal' form a couple of years ago.

Here the season is passing quickly in the warm weather.  Hopefully the bees are pollinating for me while I am at work.  The Six Pan shot below is from a week ago, the rest are within the last week.

Crocus vernus albiflorus is always one of the last to flower in cultivation.  In the wild it can be seen in flower through the summer months, as least as late as July.  I have been unkind about a form shown at AGS shows (and wrongly captioned as Crocus reticulatus in the latest AGS Bulletin.)  Here are some different forms including the best I grow.

[tonyg]

A few more.

Crocus imperati suaveolens.  Often an early flowering crocus, this year it has been part of the main flush.
Crocus kosaninii.  Seed raised showing variation.  Some are nicely feathered.
Crocus veluchensis.  From Mt Parnassus where it meets Crocus sieberi, the supposed hybrids having been spectacularly illustrated here recently.  This one lacks the yellow throat that characterises the 'hybrids' but it is in other ways more typical of C sieberi than C veluchensis.  Perhaps a 2nd / 3rd generation back cross?

[Ragged Robin]

Love your Crocus kosaninii, Tony, and the group of Crocus vernus albiflorus 

[Anthony Darby]

I have Crocus cvijicii 'Cream of Creams' out now.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

We only believe what we see Anthony... 

[Anthony Darby]

It's in the greenhouse behind the garage where I park my DB9.