Crocus February 2011

[tonyg]

Would like an ID on this last one grown as biflorus albus x2  from AGS seed sorry about poor quality of photo

Could be C biflorus alexandrii - I have something similar which is just that.  However I have seedlings ex biflorus pulchricolor (blue) which are pure white and seedlings ex sieberi Bowles white which are blue so it could just be a chance 'hybrid' form.  Nice though

[ian mcenery]

Would like an ID on this last one grown as biflorus albus x2  from AGS seed sorry about poor quality of photo

Could be C biflorus alexandrii - I have something similar which is just that.  However I have seedlings ex biflorus pulchricolor (blue) which are pure white and seedlings ex sieberi Bowles white which are blue so it could just be a chance 'hybrid' form.  Nice though

Thanks Tony I also wondered if it could ssp weldenii 

[tonyg]

It does look a bit like ssp weldenii Fairy but I would not expect that clone to breed true!

[tonyg]

Sunshine today - Spring ...but still too early for my liking!  Too late to post more but here is a taste of things to come

[Janis Ruksans]

Oh, happy friends. My entries stopped for at least two weeks. On attached picture you can see my Crocus greenhouse few minutes ago. Last night we had minus 2, at present it is minus 4, tonight will be minus 7 and so down to minus 25 for ~ 2 weeks. So this morning all covering was returned. Hope it will not damage well deeveloped plants, their leaves and few flowers.
Janis

[ian mcenery]

Oh, happy friends. My entries stopped for at least two weeks. On attached picture you can see my Crocus greenhouse few minutes ago. Last night we had minus 2, at present it is minus 4, tonight will be minus 7 and so down to minus 25 for ~ 2 weeks. So this morning all covering was returned. Hope it will not damage well deeveloped plants, their leaves and few flowers.
Janis

Janis It certainly seems tough to be a grower in your climate

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis It certainly seems tough to be a grower in your climate

Yes, it is not easy - winter jumping up and down, cold and wet spring and autumn (sometimes I'm putting wooden planks between beds for walking and working), summer sometimes too dry and hot, sometimes too rainy. But I learned to menage most of problems. Of course, every season are done some mistakes, but I'm not more awakening in midnight and not getting back to sleep seeing bright moon in sky, outside minus 20 C and no flake of snow on my beds as it was some 10 years ago. Polytunnels helps and, most important - if plant are not growing especially after several attempts - it will not grow. Not worth to keep on list which is far too large, if it don't want grow with me. Even then my last inventory of stocks (finished a pair of weeks ago) showed 5750 entries, 250 I'm striping out for registration, label mistakes etc., but even then 5.5 thousands are too much, between them are 1182 samples of Crocuses (seedlings which didn't flowered yet are not counted).
Janis

[udo]

Dirk,
super croci - as usual. 
Did you use a non-calciferous soil mix for C. carpetanus & C. nevadensis?

Armin, all my Crocus grown in the self soil mix.
Here some new flowers:
Cr.biflorus ssp. atrospermus and
      ``            isauricus, this two ssp. from SW-Turkey
    sieberi ssp.nivalis, S-Greece

[Armin]

Hello Dirk,
thanks for your answer. Sofar C. carpetanus and C. nevadensis look very good!
I'm exited if my C. carpetanus (from Rafa too, thanks ) planted outside will flower this season, last year only leaves appeared. No noses visible yet in the garden.

C. biflorus ssp. atrospermus is of my particular interest. As it is still rare I've not seen a good picture of the open flower, to compare form of anthers and style and inner markings.
Can you post one if convienient for you?

Hi Tony,
good 'roadside' spring start - nice hybrid!

[WimB]

Some Crocusses which flowered here in the last couple of days:

Crocus alatavicus
2 x Crocus antalyensis 'Sky Blue'
Crocus chrysanthus 'Uschak Orange'
Crocus dalmaticus 'Petrovac'
2 x Crocux fleischeri 'Gulek Pass'
Crocus korolkowii 'Lucky Number'
Crocus laevigatus
and Crocus versicolor

[Gerdk]

Crocus tommasinianus appeared in an unexpected place near my home.
I have no idea who choose this ideal site for naturalizing.

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

How nice to see Forumists with sunshine to open their crocus. 

[WimB]

How nice to see Forumists with sunshine to open their crocus. 

Maggi,

we only had two days with sunshine on which day all Crocusses and reticulate Irisses opened up...tomorrow and the following days: overcast and rain
I'll just think: two days of sun are better than none at all. 

[Michael J Campbell]

A few in flower here today.

Crocus corsicus 1
Crocus corsicus
Crocus sieberi Ronald Ginns
Crocus sieberi Ronald Ginns
Crocus veluchensis
Crocus veluchensis
Crocus versicolour
Crocus versicolour
Crocus sieberi subsp sublimis f. tricolour
Crocus cvijicii

[David Nicholson]

Lovely displays Wim, Gerd and Dirk. A real dreich day here today and similar promised for the rest of the week. Not good for Crocuses at all


PS: and Michael too.