Crocus April 2008

[Boyed]

In most of the European countries crocus season has already finished or is about to finish this year, but here in our place it is a high time of their blooming

Some pics from me

[Paul T]

Zhirair,

Yet another nice adamii.  Wonderful species by the look of it.  The 'King of Striped' reminds me too much of 'Pickwick' every time I see it.  Sort of like a pale imitation of it.

[Boyed]

Paul,

'Pickwick' and 'King of Striped' have distinct differences, which is especially seen when they grow side by side. The difference is that outer and inner petals of 'King of Striped' are coloured differently, while the colour of 'Pickwick' is uniform (all 6 petals have the same pattern).

[Paul T]

I hadn't picked that up from the pictures.  Thanks for the clarification.  I realise that King is also apparently paler than Pickwick, at least it appears so in the pics I've seen here.

[Boyed]

the colour intensity depends on the flowering stage the plants were photographed. In most cases they ten to get darker as the flowers mature, or sometimes paler, depending on the variety.

[udo]

some from my last crocusses for this spring:

Crocus candidus, form with more leaves ( up to five ) and many flowers per bulb
Crocus minimus, from Col de Bavella, Corsica

[Armin]

Great pictures!

Zhirair,
this C.biflorus ssp. adami is extraordinary. Wunderful.
Where is the location of this C.vernus form? Do you know?

Dirk,
is the white style typically for this form of C.minimus, Col de Bavella? Super.

[art600]

I agrre with Armin - great pictures

Zhirair
I do not think I have seen a better adamii

Dirk
The minimus 'Bavella' is wonderful.  I lost/killed the corms given to me by Alan Edwards, who I think was the person who discovered this crocus.

[Paul T]

Dirk,

The Crocus minimus, from Col de Bavella, Corsica is stunning.  Great outer colouring, strong colour otherwise, and that white style to set it all off.  Very, very desirable!!    Thanks for showing us.

[Paul T]

Does anyone mind me inserting a couple of Southern Hemisphere pics?  Hopefully not.....

This little clump of Crocus pulchellus have popped up in my new crocus garden.  The shade they were in when the picture was taken intensifies the colour a little, but they are a lovely delicate lavender colour. There was one flower a couple of weeks ago and I thought that was probably it as they were all very small bulbs  I was surprised as anything when these 5 appeared out of nowhere the other day, and I notice today that another bud emerging.  Obviously they only need very small bulbs to flower.  Given how many small ones there are in the basket I can only imagine how many flowers there may be next year.  I am so looking forward to everything settling in and flowering properly in the garden.

[udo]

Armin,
i have this form with white and orange style.

[mark smyth]

Paul the clean grit sets them off nicely.

The white style mimimus is very nice. Fingers crossed for it being on lists later this year

[Paul T]

Mark,

It's just washed river sand. I imagine it might be a bit bright in full sun with some flowers in the future, but we'll see what happens.  It does look lovely and "clean" at the moment, although lots of weeds are still trying to sprout through it.  I go out every day and check for any new buds popping up overnight, but as yet still only the pulchellus.  After Lesley showed the mathewii of hers that popped up overnight, I'm waiting and hoping for mine!!    There are at least 5 different pots of laevigatus in the garden as well, all from different sources.  A few of them I think are similar if not identical, but once they establish this season and hopefully flower well next year I'll be able to properly compare them.  If I'm lucky I'll have some nice surprises like the pulchellus, and get lots of flowers this year instead of waiting for everything to recover from the pots for next year.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very nice pulchellus Paul - so delicate on the unspoilt background - I love it !

[Paul T]

Me too!!  So early, and so perfect!!