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Crocus July 2009
« on: July 12, 2009, 07:43:00 PM »
a very early start in the new Crocus season:
Crocus scharojanii from western Caucasus
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2009, 09:52:11 PM »
What a fantastic crocus and a great early start to the season, Dirk  :)
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2009, 09:55:44 PM »
Wow! 8) :o
A real golden summer crocus!
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2009, 08:00:21 AM »
Quote from: udo on July 12, 2009, 07:43:00 PM
a very early start in the new Crocus season:
Crocus scharojanii from western Caucasus
With me blooms a pair of spring crocuses. Secret is that I got them this spring from "down under" - Australia. Autumnals finished shortly before and now are in leaves.
Janis
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2009, 12:09:54 PM »
Quote from: udo on July 12, 2009, 07:43:00 PM
a very early start in the new Crocus season:
Crocus scharojanii from western Caucasus

Dirk,

What a lovely crocus!
Do you know a source for scharojanii? I have been looking for that for several years, but newer found it.

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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2009, 01:41:18 PM »
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With me blooms a pair of spring crocuses. Secret is that I got them this spring from "down under" - Australia. Autumnals finished shortly before and now are in leaves.
Janis

Janis , what a coincidence , I have the same 2 Crocus in flower in my garden today as you have in your Northern Hemisphere one.
 Brian Mathew sent me the C. minimus albus some 30 years ago , it has done well here and I have been able to spread it amongst other keen Crocus growers - one of the joys of gardening .

        Otto.
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2009, 10:01:30 AM »
Quote from: Otto Fauser on July 13, 2009, 01:41:18 PM
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With me blooms a pair of spring crocuses. Secret is that I got them this spring from "down under" - Australia. Autumnals finished shortly before and now are in leaves.
Janis

Janis , what a coincidence , I have the same 2 Crocus in flower in my garden today as you have in your Northern Hemisphere one.
 Brian Mathew sent me the C. minimus albus some 30 years ago , it has done well here and I have been able to spread it amongst other keen Crocus growers - one of the joys of gardening .

        Otto.
What a wonderful trip - from UK to Australia and back to North, only to Latvia.
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2009, 11:41:12 AM »
While repotting yesterday I found many Crocus with fresh roots. Crocus nudiflorus 'Orla' has well developed noses already. A couple broke off while I was sieving the pot contents.

Some Crocus have done great like some small non flowering corms I got last year. They were small but they now look large enough to flower.

Others, C. kot. 'Zephyr' have broken down to dozens of tiny corms
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2009, 10:00:52 PM »
Beautiful Crocus scharojanii. I've not seen this before I think. The seedlings I grew as that were something else> :'(

I can see we are in danger of getting thoroughly confused very soon, with autumn crocuses in the north, winter/spring crocuses in the south and species which have travelled from one hemisphere to the other flowering in both places at the same time 8) :D :D :D
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2009, 07:55:20 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on July 26, 2009, 10:00:52 PM
Beautiful Crocus scharojanii. I've not seen this before I think. The seedlings I grew as that were something else> :'(


Yes it is a beauty. I have been searching for that for years. Some years ago I finally found them, and bought some corms immediately. I was very happy until they turned out to be 'just' banaticus :( I contacted the dealer with the bad news. He assured me that other customers had got the real thing. I was just unlucky that all of my 3 corms was a wrong species. Unfortunately it was sold out, and I have never seen them since. As a compensation I got 3 Galanthus peshmenii. After one season they were destroyed by the narcissus fly >:( Just bad luck!

By the way, how does a crocus bought in the northern hemisphere react when it comes to New Zealand? How many years does it take to turn the seasons?

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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2009, 10:30:42 PM »
There's no one pattern for all bulbs Poul, when they're transported from one hemisphere to the other. Some settle immediately and flower in their right season, other will take a year to change around, some take two or even three years. Most crocuses will flower at what would be their "normal" time then die down quickly and come up again in the right time for the new place. It's very much a guessing game for the poor grower. In general, herbaceous plants are much easier to "acclimatize"
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2009, 09:36:01 PM »
How did I miss commenting about Crocus scharojanii  :o
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2009, 05:18:46 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on July 26, 2009, 10:00:52 PM
I can see we are in danger of getting thoroughly confused very soon, with autumn crocuses in the north, winter/spring crocuses in the south and species which have travelled from one hemisphere to the other flowering in both places at the same time 8) :D :D :D
I've posted some pics from Marcus Harvey on the SH thread: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3947.30;topicseen
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2009, 07:28:35 PM »
...... and very nice they were too Fermi
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Re: Crocus July 2009
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2009, 05:13:34 AM »
A 25 year old slide of Crocus gargaricus ssp. herbertii EMR1209 , a Martyn Rix collection in the sixties of which Martyn sent me seeds then. It multyplied with great vigour by stolons ,
 it must have covered about one square meterin its heyday -but now unfortunately has dwindled away to a few corms . Is anyone still growing this particular number?
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