Crocus November 2007

[I.S.]

  I know this is wrong but I will put two galanthus pictures also here because as I know croconats like also galanthus.
G. peshmenii (taken yesterday)

[Thomas Huber]

What a wonderful series of photos, Ibrahim - many thanks for sharing them!

[hadacekf]

Crocus pictures are simply beautiful - many thanks Ibrahim

[Joakim B]

Very nice pics everyone
Ibrahim nice to see a Turkish rock garden
Zephirine use courser things like gravel rather than sand and then it does most likely not pack. Something in the range of 2-4mm in diameter or even bigger. That is the the advise they give here in Sweden.
Kind regards
Joakim

[zephirine]

OK, I'll give it a try, Joakim, thank you!
I do have many, many stones in my garden, but they are mostly rounded, ancient ice-rollen stones from 1" to 1' and over!  Brought from the Alps by the river Rhone some million years ago. And wrapped in my clayish usual lot!
I'll try to increase the number of smaller stones, then!
Zephirine

[mark smyth]

Crocus wattiorum is a beauty. Can you post a tighter shot of the flower?

Is there nothing in place to stop plants being stolen from the gardens in Turkey?

[Lesley Cox]

That's a very interesting garden Ibrahim. Where exactly is it? There seems to be a major city very close by. I like the big raised beds for the bulbs. They are really huge troughs. Some more detail please.

[Joakim B]

Zephirine
The best sort is the crushed stones that are irregular shapes and therefor do not pack so well. We also use this type to put on roads that have ice to make them less slippery. Maybe then it is a slightly bigger version 5-8 mm or so. Round stones packwell and are not that great in airing the soil or adding drainage if I understood things right.
Good luck
Joakim

[tonyg]

Interesting pictures from a Turkish rock garden - and some very healthy looking crocus too.  I am assuming this is a Botanic Garden not close to where you live Ibrahim ... I visited their web-site but I cannot translate    Will you be able to give us regular visits through your pictures?  I hope so!  Thanks.

[I.S.]

  This garden is nearly in the center of istanbul and not far to me (20 km.) I did not know there were a garden so close to me. This is my first visit but I will visit often when I find free time. I met with director
He is an old prof. from university. He was kind and helpfull. I think he is the person who made leadership to Dave in Antalya last autumn. Garden is situated
very nice specialy for bulbs. Most of bulbs were in privated corner you need private pass with an attendant. But they are helpfull.

[mark smyth]

Anyone got any Crocus speciosus to spare?

The photo belongs to Dutch supplier JS Pennings and stolen borrowed from Daffnet

[Martin Baxendale]

Anyone got any Crocus speciosus to spare?

Nice pic, Mark. They look like the ones I got (wrongly of course) as Oxonian from all the nurseries I ordered from this year!!!   

[hadacekf]

I need the help of experts again. I grow these Crocuses under the name C. pallasii ssp. pallassi. All bulbs come from same place of Turkey. Some are self seedlings. At present still in flower. Is the ID correct?

[Lesley Cox]

I can't comment on the ID Franz but what lovely crocuses, and as always doing so well in your beautiful lawn.

Re Crocus speciosus above, these MUST be planted by mechanical means. (Just imagine down on hands and knees to plant that lot!!!) But in that case, does the machine always know how to plant the corm the right way up or are many planted up-side-down but, presumably, still sprout OK and come up and flower? I ask because when I have a lot of little bulblets of FF. acmopetala and pontica and want to put them in a lawn, I wonder is it OK just to sprinkle them and assume they will all come up, or will only those which land the right way up, come through?

[Kees Jan]

Just back from 2  botanical trips to SW Turkey and Greece (Attica and Peloponnesos). This is C. cartwrightianus, a 'new' species for me in the wild, photographed in the Attica region of Greece. As many other crocuses it's quite variable in the wild.