Crocus January 2018

[WimB]

Crocus chrysanthus 'Rusne'
Crocus danfordiae
Crocus gargaricus
Crocus michelsonii
Crocus michelsonii LEE408

[WimB]

Crocus tommasinianus JG4

[Yann]

Nice vivids colors to light a bit under the grey sky!

[krisderaeymaeker]

Crocus gembosii 

[Maggi Young]

Good enough to eat!!

[krisderaeymaeker]

Good enough to eat!!

No chocolat Maggi ....

[Janis Ruksans]

Very good Kris!

We just passed the second frost wave with lowest temperature minus 11, but now all snow again melted and outside is +4. My pots still are covered and most of crocuses are sleeping, Only some 10 species pushed out closed flower buds, but I can’t take off covering as somewhere in February new frost wave is predicted and covering helps to keep plants sleeping. Although it seems that this winter temperature will not fell below minus 15 – the warmest winter in my life.

From 1st-6th and again from 8th-15th of March I have open door days in my nursery – so named Crocus days and all are welcome, too – if you will found time.

[Yann]

While Janis is frozen i'm in sweat in the greenhouse

Crocus mawii
Crocus atticus(?) ssp sublimis 'Michael Hoog's Memory'
Crocus cyprius
Crocus biflorus subsp alexandri
Crocus thirkeanus

[Yann]

all is getting fast with crocuses

Crocus biflorus subsp atrospermus
Crocus chrysanthus 'Sun Spot' (i've found the spot...not the sun!)
Crocus leichtlinii
Crocus uschakensis
Crocus chrysanthus 'Snow bunting'

[Janis Ruksans]

Yann! You are progressive in names - see C. thirkeanus, but why you still use subsp.? Better to change labels to binominals, because many of former biflorus subsp. genetically are very different and forms different, not related groups. Same is regarding subsp. of former sieberi, although atticus, sublimis, nivalis at least are relatives. But another relative - Crocus athous never was regarded as subsp. and the C. georgei, although similar, is quite distant. Sunspot better to regard as C. gembosii cultivar.

[Yann]

You're right, i should change my labels.

I still refer to old system http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/481023

Michael Hoog's Memory should be regarded as atticus?

and yes Sun spot is now gembosii relative, need to update the label too.

Thanks

[Yann]

that's done

[Janis Ruksans]

Michael Hoog's Memory is C. sublimis, if I remember well.

Here dark weather, snow mixed with rain, no one flower opened yet. On picture view on landscape with pergola, where summer parties occur (from upper flat of our house).

[Paul Cumbleton]

Can someone identify this crocus please? Turned up from a batch of what was supposed to be C. tommasinianus roseus. While I love Crocuses, they are not a genus I am at all knowledgeable about!
Thanks
Paul

[tonyg]

Can someone identify this crocus please? Turned up from a batch of what was supposed to be C. tommasinianus roseus. While I love Crocuses, they are not a genus I am at all knowledgeable about!
Thanks
Paul

It's Crocus tommasinianus - a very nice 'white' form.  There is one named 'Eric Smith' which has purple flecks.  This could be what you have but yours is nicer than those I used to grow!