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tboland

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Crocus May 2008
« on: May 04, 2008, 09:51:01 PM »
Only in Newfoundland can you have the crocus peaking in May!  This past couple of days have been sunny if not still cool at only 5 C but the crocus have gone mad!  Here are a bunch of the chrysanthus:  1. Advance   2. Blue Pearl   3. Cream Beauty (or maybe Romance)   4. Prins Claus   5. Ard Schenk   6. Blue Bird
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Todd Boland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, zone 5b

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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2008, 09:54:43 PM »
Other crocus open inlcude 1. corsicus (Howard, these came from you but I have no leaves!)  2. sieberi 'Tricolor'  3. siberi 'Hubert Edelsten' (also from Howard)  4. tomassinianus...I think roseus..they are more pink than the pic shows
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Todd Boland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, zone 5b

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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2008, 09:57:51 PM »
Finally I have this mystery...I was thinking wild form of sieberi but the base of the petals is not yellow.  Otherwise similar to etruscus but no darker veins on the reverse and my etruscus are smaller and faded over a week ago, while these just opened today.
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Todd Boland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, zone 5b

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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2008, 01:39:35 AM »
Are they perhaps a form of C. vernus? Thomas and Tony will know. I'm going by the width and size of the leaves at flowering timwe, as well as the stigma.
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2008, 03:06:07 PM »
Todd, I agree with Lesley, your mystery is a form of Crocus vernus - a really wonderful form with it's softblue flowers!

The plant you have as Ard Schenk, does not fit with the ones I have as the correct one. Yours could be Miss Vain.
Your Blue Bird seems also not true - it doesn't resemble any cultivar I know. Perhaps it's a seedling?
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2008, 07:23:24 PM »
Thanks Thomas...seems my Ards are all Miss Vain!  The Blue Bird probably is a seedling as I don't recall planting any, but in the past I bought mixed chrysanthus so I figured one might have gotten in the garden in that way...guess it is a seedling then...a rather cute one!

I have no idea where the vernus selection came from...another mistaken ID since they were purposefully planted as a group...I'm thinking they were bought as Vanguard since I remember buying those but there are no signs of any in the garden.  Don't you just love the Holland bulbs!  Mis-ID's all over the place.
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2008, 09:42:53 PM »
Quote from: Thomas Huber on May 05, 2008, 03:06:07 PM
Todd, I agree with Lesley, your mystery is a form of Crocus vernus -

Hey Hey! I'm getting there ;D
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2008, 08:03:13 PM »
view pictures from Crocus vernus ssp.albiflorus last week
in SE-Germany on the border to Austria
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2008, 09:16:42 PM »
Udo,
lovely to see C.albiflorus in the wild.
Where your kids more interested in the crocus or more the last snow?
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2008, 02:49:57 PM »
Armin,
i believe, it is the snow.
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2008, 11:28:30 PM »
Here are a couple of crocus I saw on Mt Parnassus on my trip to Greece in May.Sorry for the delay but I have been busy.

I am calling them sieberi but who knows they are very mixed up there.
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2008, 12:33:41 AM »
They're very pretty with that soft lavender colouring.
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Re: Crocus May 2008
« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2008, 07:22:19 AM »
Tony,

I love that dark tipping.  Very nice!!
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