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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #150 on: March 22, 2021, 07:34:09 PM »
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Guff

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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #151 on: March 22, 2021, 07:45:29 PM »
Grass bank was ruined last night..........all the flowers in last picture of bank are all gone
Seems deer like to eat crocus buds.


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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #152 on: March 22, 2021, 08:07:31 PM »
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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #153 on: March 22, 2021, 09:23:55 PM »
Grass bank was ruined last night..........all the flowers in last picture of bank are all gone
Seems deer like to eat crocus buds.
Oh my, that is really sad to hear.
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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #154 on: March 22, 2021, 09:28:33 PM »
I had a quick look at the flowers that are left on grass bank, and spotted this....
Five or six years ago(or maybe 8, hard to remember) , I had a seed pod grow on my Carpathian Wonder. I had also used the pollen to make a couple crosses that year.


Maggi, going to have to make something next year to protect them. I think the deer have been eating them since I had started the bank, but it has never been this bad that I had noticed.
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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #155 on: March 22, 2021, 11:15:55 PM »
Beautiful markings on this one.

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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #156 on: March 23, 2021, 08:13:09 AM »
Hi Guff,

what a drama - you wait a whole year and then the buds are simply plucked off by an ignorant, hungry soul...
Fortunately, crocuses often have multiple flowers. That may allay your grudges...

Nice offspring of Carpathian Wonder.

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Armin

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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #157 on: March 23, 2021, 06:34:47 PM »
Jeff, Armin thanks.

I have an even bigger project planned, need all the crocus seeds I can get. Plus I finally wanted to see mass flowers on the bank. Upstate New York, the weather can change fast, and this has been the best year for crocus in a long time.

I have a lower woods, that I want filled with Spring flowers.

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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #158 on: March 24, 2021, 08:11:59 PM »
Crocus on the grass bank
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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #159 on: March 24, 2021, 08:30:07 PM »
Last seedling bed, will be added to grass bank this summer. Mostly growing in all shade, so they don't flower well.


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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #160 on: March 25, 2021, 12:31:01 PM »
Crocus on the grass bank

The yellow seedling is a really nice one with that delicate pale yellow color. It reminds me of Midas Touch.

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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #161 on: March 26, 2021, 05:25:30 PM »
Poul thanks.

Think it's a seedling from this crocus. Always have plans on digging the crocus up to see if can get it to clump up, but never do. Just been collecting seeds.

Found a second possible Carpathian Wonder seedling. No marking on the white outside.

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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #162 on: March 26, 2021, 05:52:51 PM »
Update picture on special bed.
Wildlife (no seeds) in row with Tatra Shades

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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #163 on: March 30, 2021, 10:11:58 PM »
Found another Heuffelianus type seedling on grass bank.


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Re: Crocus crossing
« Reply #164 on: April 05, 2021, 09:52:19 PM »
Found three more, Heuffelianus type seedlings.


 


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