Crocus September 2007

[Maggi Young]

These plants are all quite hardy. Thomas and Franz have them in a lawn or meadow and they are fine.
Nearly all are able to be grown outside in the UK... sometimes we have them in pots so we may protect them from the wind and rain, but they are not bothered by cold, especially if they can have a covering of snow to protect them.

[Gerdk]

Although there were some Crocus nudiflorus shown I cannot resist to show my plants - photographed today

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

How lovely they are, Gerd. I see you have had some sunshine!

[Gerdk]

How lovely they are, Gerd. I see you have had some sunshine!

Yes, the sun came out at 11 and everything appeared ' in another light '.
Maggi, you are so fast.

[Maggi Young]

We have been lucky with a good day here, also. This evening the light was beautiful and the sky had so many different shapes of clouds and each area of sky was a different colour. We were out walking with our little dog and did not have a camera 
Sdaly there has bben some rain and quite a lot of wind in the last days so the colchicums are suffering; in some patches they are completely flat on the ground. There are lots more still to come up ,though, so they may fare better. The crocus are not so flat..... yet!
A friend has new flowers on her tree paeony, a seedling from our red P. delavayi... these flowers are a lighter red than the spring versions, they seem tolook mo to have more orange in them. Fun to see them, I don't think any of our paeonies have ever made autumn flowers. I will check them all tomorrow, just in case!

[Michael]

Wow! congratulations Gerdk, you literaly ~have gems growing directly from the ground! An what a colour!!!!!!!!!

[Lesley Cox]

As Mike says Gerd, a super colour in nudiflorus. Mine are good but not so deep as that.

[Gerdk]

Thank you alltogether. Must go to the SRGC-Forum to realize that this is a special color. I am looking for an albino version of this easy growing crocus.

Gerd

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great colour Gerd !
Write me on your list if ever you have spare corms   

[Martin Baxendale]

Did you spot it?

This white banaticus with the soft blue hint came up between dark blue
forms - it even seems to be a shot from the same corm as his blue
neighbour. Are there any white forms in trade with blue style
I have to wait until next year until I know if it is permanent 

Thomas, I still haven't found a white banaticus with lilac style amongst my seedlings, but today I did find a pale lilac one with white style!

I know in the past that I've crossed the lilac and white forms of banaticus, hoping for intermediates. I guess the white style may have come from a white parent and the lilac flower colour from a lilac parent (made paler perhaps by the white parent).

First pic, the little patch of seedlings. Second pic, the lilac flower with white style:

[David Nicholson]

Gerd, those nudiflorus are a lovely colour.

[David Nicholson]

I remember last year there was discussion on the thread about Crocus speciosus Oxonion and whether the plant shown was a 'true' Oxonion. Here are some pictures of mine, corms purchased this year from Rare Plants.

Tomorrow we jet of to Spain for a week for some Autumn sun to get us in the right mind to face the Winter and, as the plants came into full bud yesterday, I was a bit worried that I might miss them at their best. A couple of hours in the kitchen this morning opend them up nicely.

Hopefully I shall have some more plants in full bud when I get back home.

[Maggi Young]

Funny thing, David, a couple of hours in a warm kitchen never makes me look that good 
Have a good holiday!

[Martin Baxendale]

   Grrrr!  Rare Plants had sold out of C. speciosus 'Oxonian' by the time I got around to ordering! I meant to order from him because I know in the past he's always had true Oxonian and I wanted to get it again. Lovely thing!

Oh well, I ordered it from a couple of other sources too when Paul Christian ran out, and hopefully at least one of them will send the real thing. 

[Armin]

Hi Croconuts,
its a geat pleasure to see all your nice crocus pics . And sooo early! Just beautiful.

This summer was obviously extremely good for a high mice growths rate.
Everywhere in the garden new holes appear  - and the mice are surprisingly very active during the day eating/collecting gras and seeds. In spite of seven cats in direct neighbourhood the mice are not shy at all!

The cats seem to be full - they still catch and kill but don't eat them! Just bite off the mice heads. 
Have you ever experienced something similar?

Honestly, for the time being I became a bit nervous. None of my autuum crocuses were visible! Have all my corms eaten up by mice invasion?

Fortunately today I saw the first buds. I calmed down...