Crocus September 2007

[David Nicholson]

lovely tournefortii Thomas

[Lesley Cox]

Thomas,
simply beautiful.

Well, Thomas IS simply beautiful

[David Nicholson]

Thomas,
simply beautiful.

Well, Thomas IS simply beautiful

Crawler!

[Lesley Cox]

I'm no crawler David. I can barely touch my toes nowadays, let alone get down on my hands and knees!

[David Nicholson]

You and me too Sister

[tonyg]

Great to see some autumn crocuses - only one (Esselmonts C. nudiflorus ex Youngs) in flower here although a few others are nosing through.  I think it will be will be a week or two before I have any pics for you.  Thomas, I must find something to swap for a corm of that nice C tournefortii ... although I will check all mine carefully as the flower to see if any start white!

[Thomas Huber]

Thank you everybody for the compliments - this plant is one of my (many!) favourites!
Did I mention, that Crocus tournefortii does not close its flowers by night?

Tony, you don't need to find something to swap, if you want it, just tell me! You have
sent me so many corms in the last years - you can have nearly everything from my collection!
But I have to wait if the corms will devide until next year - I have only two so far.

[mark smyth]

Looking at Tony's web site my Crocus cancellatus mazziaricus dont look right. I'll try and get a better photo tomorrow

[David Nicholson]

Doesn't look spot on does it? I'm sure Tony and Thomas will have a better idea than me, but I think it looks nearer to C cancellatus lycius

[mark smyth]

If it helps the emerging bud is blue/gray but when open the colour is confined to the base of the flower

[tonyg]

Mark
C cancellatus ssp mazziaricus is very variable .... at least it is if the plants that I have grown under that name are (were ) correctly named!  From what you write it could well be true to name.   All the ssp lycius that I have grown have been pure white/pale creamy white, no markings that I can recall, while I used to grow a form of ssp mazziaricus with very pale blue/gray flowers with dark markings at the base of the petals.  I assume your plant does have the netted tunic of C. cancellatus.
One of the points that I try to get across in my crocus lectures is that the plants are much more variable than you might think from the offerings in the trade.

[mark smyth]

Here is a much better photo of Crocus cancellatus ssp mazziaricus

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It's a beauty Mark !

[mark smyth]

I like it too until the next beauty comes along.

Here are the buds showing that the backs of the petals are blue-ish

[mark smyth]

p.s. Kath Dryden is selling this Crocus. It's on here list that came today