Crocus in pots February 2010

[Maggi Young]

Oh, my goodness.... such fabulous crocus.... I must fetch Ian to see these!!  

.....half an hour later...... yes, I thought so... Ian is speechless to see these great  crocus too. A real treat, thank you all!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Stunning nubigenas Janis - all brilliant !  
Hendrik, that's a very special chrisanthus ... and indeed a well chosen name, beautiful !!  

Flowering with me at the moment :

1 & 2 Crocus baytopiorum - on a longer stem then some I have seen here - but it remains a glorious Crocus to my eyes.
3 & 4 Crocus sieberi atticus "Michael Hoog's Memory" - from Janis

[Hristo]

Picture 1 of your baytopiorum is super Luc!!

[Armin]

Janis, Hendrik, real exquisite C. biflorus ssp. nubigena - very lovely.

Hendrik,
your "Black Fire" is a real gem.   Wow!   A pity it increases so slow.
It resembles cv. "Gündogmüs Bronze" but yours is more darker on the outer pedals.

Luc,
excellent croci - it seems you got the crocus fever and becoming a real croconut!

[I.S.]

 Very nice Crocus from everybody
 Janis, thank you very much for showing the variation of nubigena but I am stil not very clear! I think some of your nubigena might have sign of C. biflorus caricus form Caria region (black throat instead of yellow!)
  Mark McD. your biflorus doesn't look like C. biflorus pulchricolor to me! may it be C. etruscus Rosalind!

[I.S.]

Hendrik,
your nubigena from Labranda very lovely one. Is there anyway to see throat? It has yellow, black or black spoted? Because there are many new record from that corner of Tr. And I can't reach any descriptions. I have only proximatly locations  

[Maggi Young]

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[mark smyth]

The nicest Crocus in my collection, for now, is open but I realised too late for a photo. It's the custard powder orange and darkest chocolate - C. Janis Ruksans.

[mark smyth]

I forgot to say I have seed goulimyi pods above ground. Is this normal?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Sorry Mark, can't answer your question but I see no Crocus posted for two days    
I'll try to do something about that.

This is Crocus sieberi "George" - according to Janis, this is a mutant from C. "Hubert Edelsten", itself a cross between C. sieberi ssp sieberi and C. sieberi ssp atticus. 

Sorry, the pix are a bit blurry. 

[Armin]

Luc,
this is a lovely crocus hybrid. Excellent.

[Maggi Young]

I forgot to say I have seed goulimyi pods above ground. Is this normal?

 It is a bit on the early side, Mark;  must be to do with earlier flowering in the autumn?

[Martin Baxendale]

I forgot to say I have seed goulimyi pods above ground. Is this normal?

Nope.

Oh, sorry Maggi. Just noticed you'd already answered this. I thought no-one had. How could I have not have seen you there?

[Tony Willis]

I forgot to say I have seed goulimyi pods above ground. Is this normal?

Mine are above ground and also on a couple of other autumn species.

[Maggi Young]

Nope.

Oh, sorry Maggi. Just noticed you'd already answered this. I thought no-one had. How could I have not have seen you there?

I was hidden by a crocus........



It is certainly early for us to have seed pods showing on C. goulimyi here.... too cold up here.......