Crocus November 2006

[tonyg]

I think I will make more posts using the new forum set-up.  It helps to keep the text close to the image.
Here is Crocus hyemalis a seldom cultivated species from Israel.  I have been fortunate to obtain some  material from an Israeli crocus enthusiast.  Hopefully I can persuade them to set seed but this season each of the 3 corms that has flowered has done so independantly of the others!  It is a fairly large flowered plant with a reputation for being slightly tender.  I will be keeping it in the greenhouse (under the bench where many seedling bulbs live) for now.

[Thomas Huber]

Welcome to the SRGC Forum, Ibrahim!
A really impressive pulchellus collection!
Thanks for sharing them with us!

The one with the red style is pulchellus x speciosus Hybrid!

[Lesley Cox]

I panicked a bit because the first part of some pages was disappearing but now I see there is a page number to the left. This will help download times and still make previous posts on any topic very accessible. Another plus.

[I.S.]

Thank you so much Thomas. It was happiness for me.

[tonyg]

Hello Ibrahim.  Welcome from an English crocus enthusiast!  I am interested in your collection of Crocus pulchellus.  The pictures look as if they are growing wild.  Are they pictures of wild plants or garden grown plants?  I grow several forms which look quite similar to yours in my garden.

[mark smyth]

I'm normally the one dishing out advice but now I need some. How do I post multiple images?

Mark, might I respectfully suggest that, failing the "official" help pages, you might care to read the page of Questions/Answers posted on this forum to be of assistance? 
This is the page you need:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=41.0

Cheers,
Maggi

[Thomas Huber]

Mark, click on "more attachments" right beneath the path of the first one!

[I.S.]

Hello Tony.

  I'm glad to hear from you. That is right. They were wild grown but many of them are not wild any more!!
I have selected many different forms and put them ın the pots without any disturbing. Next summer I'll replant them.
  It is amazing for me,to see fauna and so many different forms on their own place.

[hadacekf]

The dark form of Crocus laevigatus is one of the last flowering Crocus in my bulb frame for which I thank Tony.

[Maggi Young]

A very fine form of laevigatus, Franz, and from a good home! Wonderful photographs, as usual. Thank you!

[mark smyth]

thanks Maggi. I've master the technique now.

In the old forum I mentioned buying Crocus sativus. Would you like to know how many flowers the 30 bulbs have? None! On the other hand the cartwrightianus 'Albus' are all flowering well

I have some unplanted Crocus that I found today. I hang my head in shame to say I have had them for probably two months. Do the Croconuts think it is worth planting them? They are spring flowering and have long noses but not showing any green. Poor Crocus! Maybe they thinks it's been very bad drought!

[Lesley Cox]

Of course it's worth trying Mark. You lose nothing by that and maybe they'll be OK. If you don't plant them - no crocuses at all. Maybe they won't be as good this year but I'm pretty sure they'll survive OK. I hate to tell you this, but I've had clumps of Nerines sitting at the end of my potting bench for a full 18 months and they still have survived. Didn't flower for a couple of years but eventually they did.

[David Shaw]

Mark, did your C. sativus come from Walkers Bulbs - available from every outlet in the UK! We have exactly the same result with ours; lots of grass but not a single flower . Also put a bag in the garden and I dont even know if they came up.

[Ian Y]

Mark, shame on you 
Bulbs are true survivors and they are perfectly capable of surviving this type of abuse.
If you plant them now then the worst you can expect is the roots will not grow, as they may have passed the time window or the emerging tips may have died off. Then the corms will go into survival mode and pass on their food store to a new corm for next year, they may or may not send up some leaves.
My guess is that if you plant them and water them well they will produce a reduced root system and may even send up a flower for you, not that you deserve it.

[Thomas Huber]

Mark, I've planted (spring)-Crocus even around Christmas and they have survived.
They didn't flower well, but had lots of flowers in the next year.
Autumn-crocus planted in January sent leaves, but no flowers in the first year.
You only have to possibilities: Plant them, or throw'em in the rubbish!