Crocus september 2011

[I.S.]

  Hagen, very good mathewii seedlings! For me I would prefer the second one shape is very good with wide petals and large dark zone

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis what a wonderful, colorful crocus world you show us.

Here are three different seedlings of C mathewii.
And I learned, seedling is not only a seedling. There are big differences.

Very nice mathewii forms, Hagen.
Janis

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you.

A happy group of Crocus banaticus is beginning to annex my garden.

[Oron Peri]

Great photos from everyone,
Good to see Crocoseoson has started, mine will need a few more weeks...

Janis your niveus Blue form photo is stunning!!!

[udo]

Hagen, nice Cr.banaticus,
here is a very sunny weekend, many new Crocus in flower:
Cr.asumaniae
   cambessedesii
   caspius
   nerimaniae
   medius from Cassego, Italy
   kotschyanus ssp.kotschyanus var.leucopharynx
   kotschyanus ssp.kotschyanus 'Albus'

[udo]

and more:
Cr.hadriaticus ssp.hadriaticus close and open
   a selection with darker outside 2x
   hadriaticus x sativus 'Cashmerianus' F2 Cross Mix
   Selection from this with smaller blue flowers and
   a white form with brown throat ( Autumn Sun )

[udo]

and two more:
Cr.mathewii, rose' form
   cultivation from Crocus in my garden

[hadacekf]

Some Crocus in my meadow.

Crocus kotschyanus
Crocus kotschyanus
Crocus goulimy -kotschyanus
Crocus goulimyi
Crocus goulimyi
Crocus boryi
Crocus hadriaticus
Crocus Cancellatus

[Gerhard Raschun]

Wonderful Croci everywhere ! 

Impossible to top your show......

[Lesley Cox]

I love them all, the commonest and the rarest and in their pots they look cosy and secure but..... most of all I love them in the garden or especially in Franz's meadow.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you for showing us these crocus worlds of the world. And Dirk is not far from here......
At first I thought, there was a colchicum meadow in Vienna, but it is a crocus meadow now, and tomorrow....

The stigmata of C banaticus can look very different in color.

[Gerry Webster]

Crocus ligusticus 

From a collection by Peter Bird & Mike Salmon (BS376). Italy, Liguria, Carcare (above Savona, S of Cairo Montenotte).
This form does not increase vegetatively and all the seedlings from it were killed by the severe cold last winter.   

[pehe]

The stigmata of C banaticus can look very different in color.

I have a strange Crocus banaticus, which doesn't look healthy. Is it virused?
It could be a seedling flowering for the first time - I am not sure.

Poul

[pehe]

Some crocus flowering today:

Crocus banaticus
Crocus nudiflorus
Crocus vallicola
Crocus serotinus salzmani erectophyllus
Crocus medius

[pehe]

And some Crocus speciosus forms