Crocus: October 2010

[Hagen Engelmann]

A nice Crocus nudiflorus with an orange stylus.

[udo]

a good start in the october:
Cr.speciosus ssp.speciosus from Krim, the first species in
    my collection ( 1987 )
    banaticus, three years old seedlings from blue and white forms,
    some `Albus`comes true
    mathewii in several forms

[Hagen Engelmann]

Dirk, it seems that some of your mathewii have a yellow throat??? Unusual.

[Armin]

Hagen,
you have an excellent form of C. nudiflorus.

Dirk,
impressive size of the C. speciosus!
Lovely forms of C.banaticus and C.mathewii.

[tonyg]

A new month and some new flowers at last.  The weather changes from day to day ..  rain sun rain but under cover the flowers shine!  I am posting some garden crocus pics in my blog (from an untidy garden) in the General Forum area but will show potted plants and interesting forms here.

A nice freshly open Crocus kotschyanus
Crocus serotinus salzmannii seed raised (sown 2001) from white flowered form 'El Torcal' ... originating from El Torcal (see David N recent travel post) where mixed lilac and white populations occur.
Crocus serotinus salzmannii from my own seed sown in 2007 - a nice feathered form.

[Graeme Strachan]

After the heavy rain and high winds of yesterday, things settled down today and the the sun came out.

     Graeme

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you all for the good galleries of crocus. Is a very fine firework of colours. But a real galanthophile likes the white crocus mostly;D.
Here is Crocus mathewii. I took some leaves of Hamamelis over the pot .

[Gerdk]

Nice croci (?) alltogether!

Here is Crocus sativus - found today in a herb garden on occasion of a sunday outing near the Dutch border

Gerd

[Armin]

Tony,
a nice form of C. kotschyanus carrying so much white pollen and the striped C. serotinous ssp. salzmanni (or is yet official to say only C. salzmannii?)

Graeme,
nice croci. Like the C. pulchellus with the intensive egg yellow center.

Hagen,
pretty nice your C. mathewii composition.

Gerd,
quite advanced flowering C. sativus. Mine in the garden just showing tips of leaves...I still hope for flowers.


Today in my garden...

[Lesley Cox]

Is orange not the usual colour for the style of C. nudiflorus? I'm working from memory of 6 months ago, but I'm sure that's the colour of all mine.

Hagen, I do very much like your red leafy background for your white crocus flowers. Looks like some rare and exotic Rheum species, throwing up an amazing flower.

[Martin Baxendale]

Is orange not the usual colour for the style of C. nudiflorus? I'm working from memory of 6 months ago, but I'm sure that's the colour of all mine.

Yes it is, Lelsey. Hagen mentioned that his pic was of a nudiflorus with an orange style because a little earlier I'd posted pics of some nudiflorus seedlings with yellow styles that I selected out from my nudiflorus bed last year.

Here's one of them again:

[Lesley Cox]

Ah. That will teach me for skipping some posts when in a hurry. Quite a lot of flowers this year on your Cory. solida seedlings, mostly pinks and lavenders but still a lot to come. The pinks are very pretty.

[christian pfalz]

hello,
from my last visit in greece......now in bloom crocus spec.

without any protection, half shady and dry....
cheers
chris

[Tony Willis]

warm sunny day so some open today
Crocus vallicola
Crocus nerimaniae
Crocus pulchellus
Crocus pallasii
Crocus goulimyi mani white

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Superb series Tony !  Love 'em all but nerimaniae is a clear favourite ! 
Love all the black anthered species.