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Title: Crocus December 2007
Post by: Andrew on December 03, 2007, 08:07:30 AM

What better way than to start December with Crocus michelsonii, flowering a month earlier this year.

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Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: ian mcenery on December 04, 2007, 02:34:46 PM

Most of mine sufferred from the dry spring but this one is looking nice. I think it is one of Tony's it usually is when it comes with a full description. Crocus laevigatus for continuous flowering and it's timing is one of the stars!

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: udo on December 04, 2007, 06:48:55 PM

my last crocus for this year
Cr.cartwrightianus
              ``           white form
3 forms from Cr.biflorus ssp.melantherus

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: dominique on December 04, 2007, 11:21:38 PM

Hello Dirk
Fine pics of your Crocus  Thank you My Biflorus melantherus is as your first pic

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: dominique on December 08, 2007, 07:35:16 PM

Some Crocus are always in flower. It's a chance for the week end very grey !

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: Armin on December 09, 2007, 08:30:29 PM

Thanks to everybody for the crocus pics.

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 09, 2007, 10:03:59 PM

I wish my C. laevigatus would flower above their leaves.

I think this is the white form or it may be a rogue bulb taken with my Nikon and canon

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 09, 2007, 10:06:18 PM

and my early Crocus chrysanthus 'Afyon' again Nikon v Canon

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: ian mcenery on December 09, 2007, 11:10:51 PM

My chrysanthus are not above ground yet are you using heat Mark or is the balmy air of Ireland?

Here is a tough plant in the garden Crocus niveus a late flowering clone with its second flush please note that it has the good sense not to open

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 10, 2007, 12:02:13 AM

no heat Ian.

C. sieberi 'Bowles White' has been out for a few days now. I should be out of work early enough tomorrow to get a photo. It will be weather permitting as they are in a trough

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: Kees Jan on December 13, 2007, 07:12:44 PM

This is Crocus pallasii ssp. dispathaceus, photographed in Konya province, S Turkey. According to the Flora of Turkey the Konya populations are less typical of this subspecies and tend to merge with ssp. pallasii. The flower colour certainly seems more typical of ssp. pallasii (lilac-blue) than ssp. dispathaceus (reddish purple).

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: Kees Jan on December 13, 2007, 07:39:13 PM

and here is C. pallasii ssp. dispathaceus near relative, C. pallasii ssp. pallasii, photographed west of the ssp. dispathaceus location. Note the wider tepals. They don't always grow in Acantholimon cushions.

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: I.S. on December 13, 2007, 08:49:57 PM

 Kees! thanks for pallasii pics the first one remind me Franz's pallasii. Just it was darker then yours.

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: dominique on December 16, 2007, 11:32:45 PM

To day open Crocus chrysanthus Afyon, some days after those of Mark. Mine have very short stigmate. It is really a very little flower only 2cm wide with very narrow leaves.

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 21, 2007, 06:23:14 PM

Here's Crocus sieberi 'Bowles White'

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 22, 2007, 12:22:28 AM

in focus

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 22, 2007, 06:44:44 PM

here is the same group from today taken from a different angel  :D

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 22, 2007, 10:32:18 PM

A beautiful crocus Mark. I have chrysanthus in flower in the greenhouse but nothing outside.

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 22, 2007, 10:54:24 PM

I've missed it twice now while open. Yesterday I was at a meeting and today I had to go to Tesco. Hordes down there dont they realise the shop is open again on Boxing Day!?

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: tonyg on December 24, 2007, 10:12:38 PM

Here is a Christmas crocus.
Crocus hyemalis from Israel.  The exterior markings are not always this striking.

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on December 25, 2007, 10:13:07 AM

it's a real beauty Tony !

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 25, 2007, 10:52:24 AM

it reminds me of laevigatus

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 29, 2007, 10:26:03 PM

here's my C. michelsonii flowering late compared to Andrew's and looking quite different

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 31, 2007, 02:11:28 PM

Mine's just about out Mark.

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 31, 2007, 02:19:26 PM

chrysanthus 'Sunspot' is open enough for artifical heat to open it but the weather outside will not give a great photo.

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on December 31, 2007, 03:14:24 PM

I'll change this photo when the sun next shows it's face

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: Armin on January 01, 2008, 10:19:50 PM

Hi Mark,
a nice cultivar with a black style. Is it sterile or fertile clone?

Title: Re: Crocus December 2007
Post by: mark smyth on January 02, 2008, 07:42:22 AM

I really dont know. I bought them last summer. Tony or Thomas may know