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Thomas Huber

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Crocus September 2007
« on: September 01, 2007, 08:04:18 AM »
Good morning September!

Crocus kotschyanus ssp soworowianus is the first in my garden this year:
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2007, 02:04:20 PM »
very nice. Is it a shade of blue?

Just as I guessed and you knew here is the rogue bulbs from my pot of Crocus serotinus wide open in today's heat
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2007, 11:31:12 PM »
A :) lovely crocus Thomas. It looks white to me Mark
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2007, 09:21:26 PM »
OoH crocus!

nice pics...
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2007, 10:48:13 PM »
Today I noticed Crocus pulchellus x speciosus is flowering
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2007, 08:09:44 AM »
No blue in my flowers, Mark!
I think you need to adjust your screen  ;)
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2007, 08:12:23 AM »
to my eye/computer they have a feintest amount of blue something we would call Daz blue
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2007, 03:56:51 PM »
At least here are the autumnal crocus in my garden

1. Crocus banaticus in the morning
2. the same in sunshine
3. Crocus nudiflorus
4. Crocus kotschyanus

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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2007, 07:36:03 PM »
Here's my first Crocus of the season. Crocus kotschyanus (gratefully received from Thomas). Having looked at the pictures on Crocus Pages it seems to be C. kotschyanus kotschyanus but looks different from Gerd's kotschyanus.

I kept moving it around the garden hoping it would catch some sun and open wide for me, but if it did I missed it-so here it is, closed.

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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2007, 07:48:25 PM »
It's great to see Crocus appearing again but the current heat, over here, is pushing them past their best in a day or two

This is pulchellus x speciosus
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2007, 07:32:07 AM »
Yes, David - it's Crocus kotschyanus ssp kotschyanus. This is a very variable species
varying a lot in size and colour, but always with white anthers and 12
yellow dots in the throat. Obviously Gerd' wonderful plants were from
another source than mine!
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2007, 08:39:11 AM »
Thomas,
In all probability our kotschyanus are from different sources.
Mine came from a friend in Magdeburg (received in 1990).
I don't know where the original plants came from but a collection in the Kaukasus is possible.

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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2007, 03:00:43 PM »
Gerd, mine came from a friend in Eastern-Berlin (2003), also without naming their origin  :-\

Glowing in todays sunshine: Crocus tournefortii, received last year from a friend in Austria.
It's a very floriferous form with the flowers coming up nearly white, getting blue after
a day or two. The dark blotches on the petals were burnt by the sun with the help of raindrops:
« Last Edit: September 05, 2007, 03:10:01 PM by Thomas Huber »
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2007, 03:11:32 PM »
it's always great to see your collection, Thomas
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Re: Crocus September 2007
« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2007, 03:13:09 PM »
Thomas,
simply beautiful.
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