Crocus January 2015

[Corrado & Rina]

Any species you find offered are worth having! The more expensive ones may be that way because they are difficult to grow - it's a pretty easy  way of reckoning  which to try first.

Thanks Maggi! I have bought a few recently that I really liked (in the pictures) but the recent extremely strong winds have scattered all the labels .... I will need your help if they ever flower, I am afraid

Crocus chrysanthus (a few cultivars)
Crocus etruscus
Crocus kotschyanus kotschyanus
Crocus minimus
Crocus sativus
Crocus tommasianus

what do you think? .... any good grower / nursery / supplier I should know?? I am trying to focus on botanical species and cultivars: anything you are all in love and it is a must?

Regards

Corrado

Any supplier

[Tony Willis]

Join the crocus group and take part in the seed exchange. As Maggi says there is not a one you would not wish to grow.

[Corrado & Rina]

Join the crocus group and take part in the seed exchange. As Maggi says there is not a one you would not wish to grow.

Sounds like a good idea! Can you send me a link to some information about the Crocus group?

A question .... from seeds? Is it easy to propagate them by seed? Keep in mind this is my first "round" of Crocus  ....

Corrado

[Ian Y]

Look in the rest of the crocus section of this forum all details of crocus group there

[Tony Willis]

One in the Crocus biflorus group.It was first of all thought to be ssp pulchcricolor from Ulu Dag but I collected it near Feithye some 400 miles South East.

[ruben]

Very nice one Tony!

Today lots of rain but the development of crocus goes on!

The first flower of Crocus biflorus ssp. alexandrii. I like the contrast of the dark and white.

Crocus michelsonii, a major version. This one is selected in the Kopet dag Mountians at 2100 meters in Turkmenistan.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

One in the Crocus biflorus group.It was first of all thought to be ssp pulchcricolor from Ulu Dag but I collected it near Feithye some 400 miles South East.

A very intense blue, Tony !  Very attractive !

[Steve Garvie]

A very intense blue, Tony !  Very attractive !

A fantastic wee Crocus!
 
Apparently Crocus biflorus is sometimes called Scotch Crocus -it's certainly the blue that does it for this Scot!

[Tony Willis]

A fantastic wee Crocus!
 
Apparently Crocus biflorus is sometimes called Scotch Crocus -it's certainly the blue that does it for this Scot!

Yes it is a wonderful blue and the colour in the picture is reasonably accurate. I collected it in 1998 not far from Feithye and it was growing with Fritillaria serpenticola Cyclamen alpinum  and Primula vulgaris on a lightly wooded site. Unfortunately on a return visit the hillside had been turned into a eucalyptus plantation and the plants were gone.

[Thomas Huber]

Steve the name 'Scotch' Crocus referes to a white flowering plant with dark stripes.

It has its name because it was found in a Scotch garden nearly 100 years ago,
meanwhile it disappeared from trade and I don't know anybody who grows the true form,
but maybe it has survived in lost gardens without knowing.... 

Its a sterile plant and originates from Crocus biflorus from Italy - these Italian plants
have nothing to do with the Turkish, we must say ex-biflorus, which was meanwhile
confirmed by DNA studies.

But whatever Tonys plant is - its a real beauty and its intense blue is outstanding within the genus 

[Steve Garvie]

Steve the name 'Scotch' Crocus referes to a white flowering plant with dark stripes.

It has its name because it was found in a Scotch garden nearly 100 years ago,
meanwhile it disappeared from trade and I don't know anybody who grows the true form,
but maybe it has survived in lost gardens without knowing.... 

Its a sterile plant and originates from Crocus biflorus from Italy - these Italian plants
have nothing to do with the Turkish, we must say ex-biflorus, which was meanwhile
confirmed by DNA studies.

But whatever Tonys plant is - its a real beauty and its intense blue is outstanding within the genus 

Thanks for this info Thomas!

Yes it is a wonderful blue and the colour in the picture is reasonably accurate. I collected it in 1998 not far from Feithye and it was growing with Fritillaria serpenticola Cyclamen alpinum  and Primula vulgaris on a lightly wooded site. Unfortunately on a return visit the hillside had been turned into a eucalyptus plantation and the plants were gone.

It is indeed a superb crocus Tony. It's sad to hear that the original site has been replaced by a sterile Eucalyptus plantation.  It is fortunate that you were able to collect a corm when you did, I don't think I've seen a biflorus quite as enchanting!

[Corrado & Rina]

Thanks for this info Thomas!

It is indeed a superb crocus Tony. It's sad to hear that the original site has been replaced by a sterile Eucalyptus plantation.  It is fortunate that you were able to collect a corm when you did, I don't think I've seen a biflorus quite as enchanting!

These ecucalyptus plantations are becoming a serious threat to biodivdersity everywhere, let alone the amount of water they are driving out of the soil. A real pity!

Regards

[Otto Fauser]

Hallo Hubi , I have a Crocus growing in my garden since the late 1950,s labelled C. biflorus var. 'Parkinsonii' , white fl. and the outer segments with 3 dark purple stripes . Would that crocus be the same as the 'Scotch' Crocus ?

Tony your C. biflorus ssp. ? is a very beautiful shade of blue , sometimes nearly matched by C. aerius .

[Thomas Huber]

Hi Otto.
Sorry, 3 stripes is probably the true biflorus 'Parkinsonii' - Scotch has 5 stripes.
'Parkinsonii' does set a lot of seeds, while 'Scotch' is sterile....

[fermi de Sousa]

These ecucalyptus plantations are becoming a serious threat to biodivdersity everywhere, let alone the amount of water they are driving out of the soil. A real pity!

Regards

Tell us about it! Our whole country has been transformed and dried out by eucalypts!
And they are highly flammable!
cheers
fermi