Crocus Year 2021

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Crocus tomoricus aff. In fact veluchensis with white stigma

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Crocus Negro Boy (if that is an acceptable name these days)

[Maggi Young]

from the  Ukrainian garden of Dimitri Zubov ...


Crocus adamii, N Armenia


Crocus alatavicus, Kyrgyzstan


Crocus biflorus, W Iran


Crocus michelsonii, Kopetdag, NE Iran & Crocus alatavicus, Kyrgyzstan


Crocus tommasinianus Roseus

[Jeffnz]

Great series of photos of various species growing in Dimitri's garden. He must sure get around if he is responsible for wild plant/seed collection.

[Maggi Young]

Janis Ruksans has shared these  photos  of  Crocus from his collection from March 2021 ....in no particular  order.
The comments are  by  Janis
 

 Many ask - why stones and whether bulbs really grow in stones? The stones are only for mulch, about 1.5-2 cm thick layer and protect the ground from spillage by watering the pots.


Some from Crocus chrysanthus allied species in garden


Crocus baytopiorum TULA-002 has most unusual blue shade, no one another species has similar flower colour. Turkey.


 Crocus chrysanthus from Grammos mountains, Greece (19GRS-015)


Crocus concinnus alba JATU-068, not far from Akseki, Turkey








Photos of other plants grown by Janis Ruksans are  shown in this thread: https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18436.0

[Maggi Young]

 Crocus gembosii selection #20-51


Crocus mawii albino - Turkey


 Crocus muglaensis 14TUS-022, Turkey, Mugla province


Crocus seisumsiana KJGR-088 from Samos Island, Greece


Crocus ziyaretensis 14TUS-033 - from near Antalya, Turkey

[Maggi Young]

 Crocus heuffelianus is very good grower and selfsowing in partly shaded spots if you are not making great 'autumn cleaning' and are leaving 'falling leaves' in situ.


2 March-  Crocus demirizianus was in full size buds since December


 Crocus henrikii SW Beyshekir


Crocus mawii HKEP-0413 - received directly from Erich Pasche, although this season not very typical.


Crocus mysius from Ulus Dag 13TUS-038 - one of very few species where anthers are shorter than filaments.

[Maggi Young]

some views of the crocus houses on March 2nd with some  "socially distanced" visitors

[Maggi Young]

 more  from 2nd March



 Crocus gembosii selection 18-02


Crocus gembosii Sunspot seedlings


 Crocus micranthus BATM-402Bc



Crocus taseliensis RUDA-020

[Maggi Young]

A couple more  views from inside the  crocus house ..




A couple from outside - old soil from pots is often thrown in garden, where missed seed or seedlings thrive. Also some  plants not doing  well  are  planted out to see  how  they do ....


Crocus reticulatus s.l. in garden - not always good grower in pots and some poorly looking corms were thrown away but beautifully recovered.


 Here a pot was with poorly looking plants was emptied - now they look well!  Crocus sieberi x Hubert Edelsten
".....some blooming starts in garden where was thrown away used soil mixes from pots (I try to repot all collection every year). Together with substrate goes away uncollected seeds, some escaped corm or bulb, some bulbs which looked unhealthy at repotting time. And then in some spots appear nice surprises"

back under cover ....

 Seedling of Crocus nubigena, most likely hybrid with another species

[Maggi Young]

March 4th:
"It was snowing at night. In the morning, the earth is covered by a 1-2 cm thick snow blanket, but in the greenhouse temperature is in all the time. Today again nice sun and crocuses and other spring flowers continue to bloom. Some are blooming but new ones are coming all the time.
Tonight again some snowing, but temperature in greenhouse didn't drop below zero. Still blooms a lot of crocuses and start blooming other bulbs, too."



Crocus ruksansii from Karpathos Island, Greece. Described and named by my Ukrainian friend Dimitri Zubov.
First published in Int. Rock Gard. 90: [7] (2017)
 https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2017Jun211498039508IRG_90_June.pdf


Crocus tauricus - very dark form, originally collected in Crimea shortly before it was occupied by Russia


 Hybrid between Crocus reticulatus from Bessarabia and Crocus angustifolius from Crimea, Ukraine


Crocus baytopiorum always has whitish throat



Incredible selection from Crocus abantensis - by colour identical to unique C. baytopiorum (see previous picture). Separable only by throat colour.

[Maggi Young]

some  from 15th March when the  " nursery was visited by State ex-President Raimonds Vējonis. Day is partly sunny and crocuses nicely blooms as well as other bulbs. "


Crocus sieberi x 'George' is later blooming mutation of famous cultivar 'Hubert Edelsten' selected by late Willem van Eeden from Holland. Earlier the difference in blooming time was just-just noteable, but this year 'Hubert Edelsten' was already out of flowers when 'George' only started blooming. Variety is named after famous Russian botanist George Rodionenko - monographer of the genus Iris.


 Crocus kurdistanicus from Iran


Crocus antalyensis JATU-033 - from near Antalya


Hybrid between Crocus gembosii x concinnus #20-53


Crocus gemicii 14TUS-024, Turkey

[Maggi Young]

Crocus sarichinarensis R2CV-036 - found and published by me - Crocus sarichinarensis (Rukšāns) Rukšāns, World Crocuses 442. 2017.


 Hybrid between Crocus reticulatus and C. angustifolius - Crocus leonidii x 'White Splash' - from Gothenburg BG


 picture of hybrid between Crocus sieberi and C. gramensis raised by me. Hope it will increase by splitting.



A seedling from Crocus heuffelianus Carpathian Wonder #21-04


beautiful natural hybrid between Crocus alexandrii and Crocus chrysanthus

[Maggi Young]

Bright yellow Crocus gramensis from Greece which was regarded earlier as C. cvijicii.


Crocus albiflorus - Jura mountains, Helvetia


Crocus angustifolius 'Tiia ' - raised by Estonian gardener Sulev Savisaar and named after the bulb curator in Tartu Botanical Garden.


Crocus antalyensis


Crocus atticus in the garden -  ( 6th March approx.)  "When I turned my collection into "species of known origin" I threw away some of cultivated stocks of Dutch origin and here is one of such Crocus atticus deleted from greenhouse but planted into garden between Paeonia. Full with bees yesterday when was warmest day of this spring. Next week will come some cooling."

[Maggi Young]

Crocus balansae 17GRS - Samos Island, Greece


Crocus balansae from Spilos mnt., W Turkey


Crocus brickellii published as Crocus brickellii Rukšāns, Int. Rock Gard. 52: [7]. 2014. https://www.srgc.org.uk/genera/logdir/2014Apr241398370318IRG_Ruksans_Crocus_April_2014.pdf


Crocus candidus 'Orangino'  - found in wild by Ibrahim Sozen


Crocus caricus 12TU-016 - SW Turkey