Crocus March 2011

[Tony Willis]

Last of mine to flower

Crocus pelistericus.

One of my favourites.... what a colour!
We had one group just opening yesterday, while another, just a  couple of feet away, were still "pencils", today the second lot  have caught up. Crocus really are magically speedy souls!

Maggi

a strange season, some pots are in flower and others are just showing through the grit. This has been the case with lots of species this spring.

[Pauli]

Hello,
yesterday I visited a special place in Lower Austria, where Crocus vernus (neapolitanus) ist locally abundant!
Enjoy the pictures!

[Pauli]

...and two special plants:

[Maren]

What a wonderful place and the pictures are stunning. You must have found it difficult to walk on a field so full of flowers. Thank you for sharing.

[Maggi Young]

Hello,
yesterday I visited a special place in Lower Austria, where Crocus vernus (neapolitanus) ist locally abundant!
Enjoy the pictures!

Wow! Herbert, this is superb! Thank you for sharing this. A Croconut's dream!

[Gunilla]

A few seedlings flowering today

[Armin]

Herbert,
that view is breathtaking.
Thank you for showing.

Gunilla,
very nice hybrids. Hope they will quickly increase and nicely clump up for you!
Certainly it makes fun to breed your own hybrids.

[Alex]

Crocus pelistericus out today (ex Tony Willis).

[tonyg]

Lovely sight Herbert - Thanks.  Wish I could be there too

[WimB]

A Crocus which started flowering here last week:

Crocus veluchensis

[Hoy]

Seems that all of you have so many wonderfull Crocuses!
Yesterday this one opened the flowers wide to the sun.

   

The flowers are very small and I have no name for it. Any suggestions?

[johnw]

Crocus 'Cream Beauty' and perhaps a white sport to the left.

Also C. tommassinianus 'Roseus'.  I imported several hundred from Holland, with many permit/phyto hassles, a couple of years ago.  Selected forms of this great Crosus species are impossible to find in this country which is sad as it is such a good-doer.

johnw

[Knud]

Herbert,
- a very special place indeed and very nice photographs, I particularly liked no. 2 in the first posting. I would add to Maren's comment; a difficult field to walk away from.

Trond,
As the crow flies we do not live very far apart, and I have a crocus that looks very similar to yours, pictures included. If you, like me, "sourced" your crocus locally at a garden centre (or supermarket) it is not unlikely that they are the same (we are not exactly spoiled for choice in bulbs). I bought mine about 5 years ago as, I think,  C. chrysanthus 'Dorothy', but labels are long gone (crows and magpies seem to like them) so I cannot guarantee this (my memory is no longer what it never was). Not a very botanically based explanation, but pictures I can find match quite well. Also, Thomas Huber has a very nice thread here on the forum (February 2010) on Compilation of crocus chrysanthus/biflorus cultivars, where you can see that there are at least three cultivars that are not unlike 'Dorothy'. Good luck!

Knud

[Knud]

A Crocus which started flowering here last week:

Crocus veluchensis

Wim,
What a colour of the crocus you are showing. I see in Janis Ruksans's book that he puts it in his subgroup CC, which means it would grow outside in our climate. Is you plant growing outside in your garden?

Thanks,
Knud

[Hoy]

Trond,
As the crow flies we do not live very far apart, and I have a crocus that looks very similar to yours, pictures included. If you, like me, "sourced" your crocus locally at a garden centre (or supermarket) it is not unlikely that they are the same (we are not exactly spoiled for choice in bulbs). I bought mine about 5 years ago as, I think,  C. chrysanthus 'Dorothy', but labels are long gone (crows and magpies seem to like them) so I cannot guarantee this (my memory is no longer what it never was). Not a very botanically based explanation, but pictures I can find match quite well. Also, Thomas Huber has a very nice thread here on the forum (February 2010) on Compilation of crocus chrysanthus/biflorus cultivars, where you can see that there are at least three cultivars that are not unlike 'Dorothy'. Good luck!

Knud

Hallo Knud!

Takk skal du ha!
I thought maybe it was some chrysanthus cultivar, but I have other and this one has smaller cups. I have given up a long time ago to use labels As with these, no labels, but probably tomasinianus.