Crocus and companion plants in the garden February 2010

[johngennard]

Thanks everybody for your kind comments.Hopefully it will get better if we get some really warm sunshine in which case I will post some more pictures.

[johngennard]

Armin,I planted the first crocus more than thirty years ago and nature has done the rest.I did include Ruby Giant originally but I thought that Ruby Giant was more ruby than blue.

[Sinchets]

Flowering now in the Sakar hills of southeast Bulgaria- Crocus chrysanthus.

[Ragged Robin]

A great find Simon - such a wonderful colour 

[Alex]

Crocus sieberi "Ronald Ginns"

[BULBISSIME]

I agree ! Very very good colour Sinchets ! and nice wild pic too.

[hadacekf]

The warm sun jets opened the blooms of Crocus sieberi ssp. sublimis

[Sinchets]

I agree, Robin and Fred- always good to meet one of the ancestors of the garden hybrids 

[mark smyth]

Alex your Ronald Ginns is way ahead of mine. Does it do well in the garden?

Does anyone in the UK grow angustifolius or imperati suaveolens in the garden?

[Alex]

Hi Mark,

Everything here seems a bit ahead, this must be a warm part of the country. This is the first year I've had RG - last year I acquired two new bulb beds so I thought it should be fine in one of these - all OK so far but we'll see!

Alex

[Alex]

Also - grew angustifolius for a few years in a previous raised bed (uncovered) with no problems. Only lost it (as in misplaced!) when that bed had to be dismantled.

[TheOnionMan]

Does anyone in the UK grow angustifolius or imperati suaveolens in the garden?

Mark, while this doesn't really answer your question directly, as I'm not in the UK, but both species do great out in the garden here.  Here are a few photos of my suaveolens showing a progression of flowers opening, once again my corms from jane McGary originally.

McMark 

[Sinchets]

I grew them both outside in the UK.

[Herminarik]

Hallo, the Crocuses in the pictures are from our flower-bed. Two days ago they were covered with 15-20 cm of snow and they are a little bit etiolated.
Crocus leichtlinii is from seeds we received a lot of years ago from Jim & Jenny Archibald. Crocus baytopiorum, Crocus biflorus ssp. pseodonubigena and Cr. bifl. ssp. isauricus Akseki are from Norman Stevens (Cambridge Bulbs).
Igor & Pavlina from southern Moravia

[Herminarik]

and the rest of pictures...