Crocus November 2012

[krisderaeymaeker]

Stunning nice form of mathewii Kris 

Thanks Dave , I am also satisfied about his performance 

[Lesley Cox]

Very nice crocuses Thomas and even nicer that you are back on the Forum.

[Uli Lessnow]

Thomas, a meadow with so many crocus is much better than some pots with
crocus in the greenhouse. Great pictures, thanks for showing to us.
Melvyn, the one with the black background is my favourite, very nice.
Kris, you are lucky with these fine crocus.

Uli

[krisderaeymaeker]

Thanks Uli . Today in flower : Crocus cartwrightianus . Difficult to open because the weather today was not good .

[John Aipassa]

A few shots I took yesterday. Today is no good with all this rain and wind.

Crocus mathewii and speciosus.

[Hans A.]

Some very fine Crocus at the first day of november! And glad you are back again Hubi!

Here also some crocus are in flower - most came from very generous friends as corms or seeds. Actually my favourite is this small C. cambessedesii, grown from wild collected seeds a few years ago.

[ArnoldT]

John:

Thanks,

I realized I'm in the wrong month.  But that's what a mega-storm will do to you.

Edit by maggi  -I've  moved you across to November, Arnold - glad that was all the "rescuing" you've needed after Storm Sandy.

[Janis Ruksans]

Previous sunday Crocus mathewii was in ful flower in the garden .

Sorry, Kris,
I don't think that it is mathewii. May be some form of plaasii, although they are very close. In my mind mathewii allways associates with distinctly purple coloration - more or less large - in throat or white in albino. It is grey on your sample and I have several such pallasii in my collection.
Janis

[Oron Peri]

Beautiful Crocos from every one.

Well, its about time here too...first crocus to bloom this season, C. tournefortii, which is a bit late than usual.
Many more to come ...
 

[Thomas Huber]

Melvyn, great shots, but I like no.1 with the black background most.

Yes, John, we had a pleasant holiday in Liguria - realxing, beaching, hiking and botanising for 10 days
     I think crocuses in English, but croci in italiano. Seems like the crocuses in Benelux have survived much better outside than here, if I interpret your and Kris' great photos correct.

Lesley, I've never been away from the forum, I simply had nothing to show  And life has so many other stuff than plants - but what is a life completely without plants ...... 

Thanks Uli - you are so right!

Hans, a very good form of cambessedesii! Any albus form flowering for you this year? Your boryi looks bluish - this would point for tournefortii or a hybrid of both.

[Thomas Huber]

A wonderful pot full of tournefortii, Oron!

Some photos from my sparely flowering autumn crocuses:
08 - One of my 'backup-beds' where some single goodies survived: salzmannii, ligusticus, cambessedesii, melantherus, pulchellus, niveus
03 - Another protected bed with cambessedesii flowers
01 - Crocus kotschyanus in the open garden, planted only some weeks ago - my old stock hasn't survived last winter 
02 - C. kotschyanus Albus also survived in a sheltered corner.
05 - This is what I received from Holland this summer as clusii, salzmannii, pulchellus Albus, pulchellus, Zephyr......some years ago at least a few corms were correct, but meanwhile they are 100% speciosus ......   

[John Aipassa]

Yes, John, we had a pleasant holiday in Liguria - realxing, beaching, hiking and botanising for 10 days

Huh? You actually did some beaching? I am about to become envious , but that should be shortminded of me, because we had a couple of days of good weather too, but when the rain storms comes I forget quickly .

Seems like the crocuses in Benelux have survived much better outside than here, if I interpret your and Kris' great photos correct.

Well many of my Croci (let's put it in Italian again just for the fun of it) have survived, mostly speciosus, banaticus and mathewii 'Dream Dancer' (not flowering yet), but a good deal didn't come up (yet?). The 'Purple Heart' and mathewii shown were planted this summer by the way, so they should have survived .

It is good to have you back here.

[John Aipassa]

Hans,

Your pink mathewii is absolutely gorgeous  .

[krisderaeymaeker]

Sorry, Kris,
I don't think that it is mathewii. May be some form of plaasii, although they are very close. In my mind mathewii allways associates with distinctly purple coloration - more or less large - in throat or white in albino. It is grey on your sample and I have several such pallasii in my collection.
Janis

Thanks for the rectification Janis . I am not happy with that ,fooled once more ....
On the other hand , it is a magnificent form of pallasii .
Must say that it is much more blue in some other years. Maybe could post a picture from other years ....Just to be shure ...

[Gerry Webster]

05 - This is what I received from Holland this summer as clusii, salzmannii, pulchellus Albus, pulchellus, Zephyr......some years ago at least a few corms were correct, but meanwhile they are 100% speciosus ......   

No surprise here!