Crocus September 2010

[Andrew]

A close relative of my previous posting.



C. kotschyanus suworowianus

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus suworovianus got companions in blooming. Nicely blooms pots with Crocus speciosus ilgazensis - the smallest of speciosus, easy identifiable by stigma which is well overtopped by anthers. Side by side is pot with speciosus speciosus from Crimea - very variable in color and more than twice as large than ilgazensis.
Janis

[Tony Willis]

Janis very nice,my first Crocus speciosus is out today. This is from Hasan Dag in central Turkey

[krisderaeymaeker]

The first to flower here : Crocus banaticus 'Snowdrift' 

[Alex]

Something from today - Crocus kotschyanus ssp. cappadocicus (from Janis this year).

[Lesley Cox]

The lovely picture of C. banaticus 'Snowdrift' reminds me that I must lift and rescue my own white banaticus (not a named clone) as there was not a single flower back in the autumn and I thought I would have lost them, their place had become so dry. A couple of weeks ago there came up a rash of new foliage so still alive but definitely in need of a new, damper home.

Only CC. kosaninii and minimus forms are in flower here now, then the long, deprived wait until autumn rains start in maybe 6 months.

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus kotschyanus cappadocicus started to flower yesterday, but weather is cloudy and flowers didn't open so well as in Alex garden.
Still blooms Crocus suworovianus, so I'm showing some variation in flower color - two lilac striped forms (BATM-174 - striped in lower half of petals and LST-304 - lilac stripes reach top of flower segments) and one with flower segments resembling by shape Crocus vallicola. Only vertically positioned corm allow identify it without doubt as C. suworovianus (JRRK-028).
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Today great surprise - started blooming of Crocus scharojanii flavus. As I wrote earlier flowers of scharojanii and lazicus were aborted due very hot weather. I thought the same about flavus as at replanting time at end of July it had 6-7 cm long shoots and I hoped to quick blooming, but flowers didn't came up today. Quite late for it.
During some sunny hours nicely opened kotschyanus cappadocicus, started to bloom white Crocus pallasii from Crimea. Still blooms earliest forms of Crocus speciosus. Here some pictures of forms from Crimea (very large), from Southern part of Turkey (smaller, less striped and darker blue) and another form of ilgazensis with comparatively larger and deeper colored, more striped flower. If not stigma branched far below tips of anthers (check on left flower - almost in throat), I would be in some doubt about its belonging to subsp. ilgazensis.
Janis

[Tony Willis]

Janis very nice to see.

It has been a good day for flowering with me,warm and sunny.

Crocus pulchellus self sown in sand plunge
Crocus speciosus three collections
Crocus hadriaticus

[Gerry Webster]

Crocus banaticus

Always the first crocus to flower here.

[tonyg]

Some lovely Crocus - Janis and Tony.  Crocus kotschyanus cappadocicus is one of the most beautiful.  Gerry takes the prize for the best potful though, magnificent!
Here I am almost finished repotting the crocus, it will be a little while before the main autumn flush of flowers.

[Janis Ruksans]

Excellent C. speciosus from Greece, Tony. I still haven't Greek speciosus in my collection.
Beautiful pot with banaticus, Gerry. Crocus banaticus here allways is quite late and rarely blooms in outside garden.
Janis

[udo]

Six weeks after the flower from Cr.scharojanii
comes the real autumn season:
Cr.kotschyanus ssp.cappadocius
         ``               suworowianus
         ``               hakkariensis
         ``               kotschyanus
and very early this year Cr.serotinus ssp.salzmanii

[David Nicholson]

Now it's started! Not a single nose showing yet on any of mine.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show folks !
Looking forward to many many more and hope to show some of mine in a couple of weeks.