Crocus December 2006

[mark smyth]

here is my Crocus 'Bowles White' slightly open in todays sunshine. Other corms are just poking throughThe fog has finally lifted or blown away by this mornings breeze.

[Maggi Young]

Now, THERE'S a white flower that is really yummy! Can't beat a Bowles white, can you really? Just a perfect shot, Mark, incredible for December. Hope the fog is clearing all over the UK.... got a chum flying to Liverpool for Christmas who's worried her flight will be cancelled at the last minute... she's flying on Christmas Eve, mid-afternoon May need to make the festive beans on toast stretch to another helping!

[mark smyth]

I like all white Crocus. I should say for those not familiar with this Crocus the 'pink' is caused by the low sun

[tonyg]

A Christmas crocus!

Below is Crocus biflorus ssp melantherus.  Usually an autumn flowering plant this form was collected as seed from a spring flowering population.  This is its 2nd flowering in 2006 .. the first one was in February!  Mind you if the current cold snap had come 10 days earlier this flower would have held off until the turn of the year.

[mark smyth]

in Little Britain stylee - I want that one!

Very nice. So good I feel I could touch it

[John Forrest]

I hope you don't do the same when you get things Mark.
Tony, that's a real Christmas cracker.

[mark smyth]

Having a good look around pots of spring flowering Crocus shows them all above ground. In the garden are a few late speciosus and ochroleucus in pots