Crocus September 2007

[mark smyth]

Gerd your Crocus banaticus is very dark compared to mine

[Maggi Young]

Mark, Crocus banaticus is very variable, coming in a wide range of shades and also in a wide range of flowering times, depending on the origin of the plants, it seems. We have this lovely flower over a long period because of this variation.

It's a beauty Mark !
I like it too until the next beauty comes along.

I was thinking, well we are all guilty of that, are we not? This is the favourite today, then tomorrow another flower opens and we fall in love all over again... then, I realised, that is the answer to the secret of Galanthophilia..............those Galanthophiles feel guilty about being so fickle, so they give all their attention to one plant, then they feel more faithful and, after all, that's true, because all snowdrops are the same!! hurrah, i have solved the mystery of the white fever!!

[Brian Ellis]

This is the favourite today, then tomorrow another flower opens and we fall in love all over again... then, I realised, that is the answer to the secret of Galanthophilia..............those Galanthophiles feel guilty about being so fickle, so they give all their attention to one plant, then they feel more faithful and, after all, that's true, because all snowdrops are the same!! hurrah, i have solved the mystery of the white fever!!

Mystery solved Maggi, now all you have to do is find a cure

[Maggi Young]

No need for a cure, Brian, I've read that the first step to cure any addiction is to understand and acknowledge the problem then work from there.... so it's in the hands of the sufferers... I'm just off to write up my thesis for a learned (white) paper 

[David Nicholson]

So it's back to the cake and ice cream then?

[mark smyth]

Last mention of C. cancellatus ssp mazziaricus from me. The two buds from yesterday are now open so I took these two photos to show the outside. The hitch hikers are no more!

[david m]

No need for a cure, Brian, I've read that the first step to cure any addiction is to understand and acknowledge the problem then work from there.... so it's in the hands of the sufferers... I'm just off to write up my thesis for a learned (white) paper 

There are probably enough addicts to start a galanthophiles anonymous along the lines of AA.

[Maggi Young]

Beautiful crocus, Mark, exquisite markings.

David, that's a good idea, they could be GAGA 

[Lesley Cox]

David, that's a good idea, they could be GAGA 

But they're that already Maggi

[Gerdk]

Mark,
The intensity of the color of my C. banaticus can be a problem of  photographing. It seems my camera tends to prefer to represent colors a little bit too dark. Although after having a look at all of my banaticus in flower now I saw there is of course some variation.
See comparision between darker and  my paler specimen.
Gerd

[Thomas Huber]

I love these dark banaticus!!!

Maybe it's not the correct thread - but could anybody help with
an ID of this poculiform autumn-Galanthus?

[Maggi Young]

Thomas, the Bulb Despot says he is amazed to see you have the very rare plant, Galanthus crociflorus ssp. apateus..... you must look after it!

[Thomas Huber]

Ohhh Maggi - you're such a killjoy!!! 

Of course the correct name of this rare plant is:
Galanthus snappedoffii ssp bychrisensis!

[mark smyth]

I dont think there are any autumn flowerings Galanthus pocs. Does it do this every year?

[Thomas Huber]

No Mark - only if the footballs fly deep!