Crocus February 2007

[Lesley Cox]

Andrew, your crocus pics are just beautiful but would you kindly be a good lad and do as the Goddess asks? She'd like them in thumbnails, as we can click on the pic or the file name to enlarge quickly. All you need to do is add the word "thumb" to the word "attach." Thanks a million.

Lovely pics from everyone. Crocus minimus is my most favourite of all I think and with a very long season but the white imperati is a winner.

[Lesley Cox]

When typing the post immediately above I wrote "all you have to do is write    [ Attachment Invalid Or Does Not Exist ] "and this is what came out in the post

In fact, I can't repeat what I wrote because the formula for attaching a thumbnail actually LOOKS for the thumbnail and if it doesn't find it, gives the above message.

[Thomas Huber]

I think my daughter is right, when she says:
Daddy, you have tomatoes on your eyes!

WHERE DO YOU SEE A WHITE IMPERATI??

[Andrew]

Andrew, your crocus pics are just beautiful but would you kindly be a good lad and do as the Goddess asks? She'd like them in thumbnails, as we can click on the pic or the file name to enlarge quickly. All you need to do is add the word "thumb" to the word "attach." Thanks a million.

I'll not sure how to word this to be diplomatic and we have been here before so, the two pictures of C. minimus I posted are both smaller in size than the thumbnails above and below them. This means they are quicker downloading, take up less space - which was a problem recently and you have a large image ready downloaded saving wear and tear on your mouse/wrist

Thank you

[Maggi Young]

Thomas, see this post by Franz:
« Reply #53 on: February 08, 2007, 09:52:42 AM
I repost the pic below, I believe that this pale version is the one to which Lesley refers.

It is a beauty and is paler than the one shown below it in Franz' post.



Andrew, yes, we have been here before.  The matter of file sizes is "beyond the ken" of many readers here and so the protocol is for the thumbnails. Please bear with me!

[Maggi Young]

Here is a shot of our C. imperati, to show the darker colour more usually found

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks, Maggi!

OK, it's paler than the others,
but to call it "white" or Albus.....

In every case it's a beauty!!!!

Don't worry, Hubi, Lesley was only calling it "white" in passing, to distinguish it, she's not goingto be publishing any papers appending the name Albus to this lovely crocus in any official way!
Err....are you , Lesley?       Maggi

[tonyg]

Please forgive this heresy (Franzs plants are always correctly named) but this pale imperati has a couple of features which resemble C biflorus ssp biflorus.  The pale blue shade is more biflorus than imperati which is commonly that bright lilac seen in other shots.  The style looks bright red and club-like at the end.  Its a beautiful crocus - Franz have you another picture of the inside of the flower?
PS - I grow a white imperati ... very white!  (But it looks very like C malyi - the source of my plant is as unimpeachable as Franz though!)

[Maggi Young]

I feel I must return to the point about picture sizes and the use of thumbnails. I apologise to Andrew for a rather sniffy reply I made to him earlier. The point about his picture sizes is about pix which are large (pixel dimensions) but size small  in compression(Mb)
Thus, Andrew's pictures ARE smaller, in MB size than our thumbnails, so he has a valid point.

There is, of course, more to compression of files than meets the eye, if you'll forgive the phrase......depending on the way files are saved the size can be much reduced in Mb size, while retaining quality.
A quote from a helpful chum, "In a digital image that is being displayed on the web you can get rid of an awful lot of the data in the image without affecting the quality - a screen is very limited, relatively, in how much information it can display.  By getting rid of information by correct compression you don't effectively degrade the quality."  Thus 2 pictures can have identical pixel sizes but very different Mb sizes.


I had hoped to avoid all this technical stuff, because, for the most part, the perception of readers is that larger pix mean longer downloads and it is just simpler for all to stick with the thumbnail plea.

The friend quoted above has raised very handy points about forum settings that we will be looking into which may mean better download times for the forum. I thank him for his assistance in this matter.
Main gist of all this stuff is: Andrew, sorry if you were put upon unduly. Everyone else, just follow the protocol set out in the help/advice threads, please!

[Maggi Young]

See some imperati forms from the Crocus pages: http://www.thealpinehouse.fsnet.co.uk/crocus%20pages/imperati%20imperati.htm
Yummy, ain't they?

[tonyg]

Now why didn't I think of linking out to Crocus Pages?
And there is the white imperati too

[Maggi Young]

Yes indeedy!

[David Shaw]

Maggi
There is loads of stuff on posting pictures scattered all over the forum. I know you are one very busy lady but could it all be gathered together so that those of us who are less experienced with pics can find it all in one place?

[Ian Y]

David where have you been all this time.
Click here, Maggi did it months ago.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=41.0

[Lesley Cox]

My sincere apologies to Andrew and to Maggi for apparently raising a storm in a teacup, I'd better learn to keep my mouth closed on issues about which I know next to nothing.