Crocus September 2007

[mark smyth]

ssp.cappadocius looks fantastic

[Paul T]

Dirk,

That striped kotschyanus has a wonderful "Wow" factor, doesn't it?  I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it, in any species or hybrid.  Very nice!!

[tonyg]

MMM very nice crocus Dirk.

Here are some humble ones from my garden.  Just a few showing now but with rain and cooler nights the main show is coming

Crocus cambessedesii - pale lilac above but striking stripes below.

Crocus pulchellus - easy to please

Crocus nudiflorus - a group of last years 'spares' planted out in a sunny raised bed.  They seem to like it.

[Lesley Cox]

I'm utterly hooked, line and sinker (that's a simile for Fred!-if it was a simile? and that's probably not how it's spelt)

Closer to a metaphor I think David. If I remember my English classes from the last century, a simile always contains the word "like."

[Lesley Cox]

Thomas, I'm delighted to think of your crocuses in your sales hall. You mean among the Opels? THAT would be something to see and quite different from the usual salesroom decorations of posters and aspidistras!

Lovely pics from everyone. Nearly over here though CC. kosaninii and minimus still go on. And still the chrysanthus hybs are in flower, `Herald' (from Marcus last year), `Blue Prince,' Purity,' `Ladykiller' and some others.

I'm reading the new Ruksans book for the second time and am noticing so much that I missed first time round. For instance, how he almost always collects bulbs (even Juno irises) in flower (unless he happens on plants in seed). He then presumably packs them and takes them home to replant. If most people dug bulbs in flower, the bulbs would promptly die or at least be very badly set back and take perhaps years to recover and flower again. That man certainly has a magic touch!

[Thomas Huber]

Lesley, do you have a photo of chrysanthus "Blue Prince"?
It isn't registered from the KVAB and I've never heard of it!

[Andrew]

The season has started here with,



Crocus mathewii and



Crocus boryi.

[David Nicholson]

I'm utterly hooked, line and sinker (that's a simile for Fred!-if it was a simile? and that's probably not how it's spelt)

Closer to a metaphor I think David. If I remember my English classes from the last century, a simile always contains the word "like."

That's the word Lesley-couldn't think of it at the time.

[David Nicholson]

Andrew, nice plants. I notice that you don't top dress your pots and would be interested to know why you choose not to?

[mark smyth]

all but one of my C. mathewii died during the summer. They were a soft rotten mess when I knocked them out for repotting

[Andrew]

Andrew, nice plants. I notice that you don't top dress your pots and would be interested to know why you choose not to?

David, I do not have a 'showing' background so it is something I have just not done and if a pot needs topping up with compost you can dump some in, without worrying about the top dressing.

[Hans J]

also from here few pics -we have a little sunshine

[Anthony Darby]

Here's my first two crocus of the season: Crocus mathewi and C. serotinus salzmanii (labelled as clusii).

[Lesley Cox]

Thomas, your question brought me up short as I certainly don't have any "rare" or unusual chrysanthus form. I just now went out to check, and of course I meant `Blue Pearl' not Prince. I was thinking of Prince Claus. That's what happens when you get old. Just you wait, laddie. 

[David Nicholson]

Good morning Lesley.