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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #105 on: April 01, 2021, 04:47:11 PM »
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Selection of Crocus abantensis 'Azkaban's Escapee' - my real favourite.


Selection of Crocus sieberi 18-01 - Omalos plain, Crete.


Still are blooming very few of latest crocuses - this one is Crocus albiflorus TCH-3608 - from Switzerland, Engstlensee


The darkest yellow Crocus danfordiae RUDA-099

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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #106 on: April 01, 2021, 04:48:18 PM »

True Crocus cvijicii 13MCY-058 from N Macedonia - one of the latest crocuses at  end March.


True Crocus cvijicii 13MCY-058 is pale yellow to almost white and growing only in North Macedonia
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #107 on: April 01, 2021, 05:48:19 PM »
Not just Iris then - what an incredible collection!

Is it just me or does a cultivar called 'Azkaban's Escape' make anyone feel old?

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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #108 on: April 01, 2021, 06:13:41 PM »
Not just Iris then - what an incredible collection!

Is it just me or does a cultivar called 'Azkaban's Escape' make anyone feel old?
Surely that can't  make  a  youngster  like you feel old, Tristan?!!
 edit ti add - Oh dear, I just looked up the year  of that book and it appears to be  1982  :o :o So yes, I can see it  would make  you feel old!!(I was in my prime!!- she said, hoping no-one  would notice that that now makes her an old lady!)

I've never read any Harry Potter books myself !( I'm too mean to buy  them and  when I tried to take them out  of the  library  they  were  always already  out  on loan - in the end I gave  up!)
« Last Edit: April 01, 2021, 06:29:55 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #109 on: April 01, 2021, 07:19:55 PM »
Maggi,
that Crocus artvinensis is nice! Never seen anything like it.

Mostly ordinary ones in my lawn :)


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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #110 on: April 01, 2021, 07:53:29 PM »
Surely that can't  make  a  youngster  like you feel old, Tristan?!!
 edit ti add - Oh dear, I just looked up the year  of that book and it appears to be  1982  :o :o So yes, I can see it  would make  you feel old!!(I was in my prime!!- she said, hoping no-one  would notice that that now makes her an old lady!)

I've never read any Harry Potter books myself !( I'm too mean to buy  them and  when I tried to take them out  of the  library  they  were  always already  out  on loan - in the end I gave  up!)

1982? That would be fine, I was 10! But according to my sources (a Prof. W. Pedia), the Prisoner of Azkaban was published in 1999. But maybe the Crocus is from 1982 and JK Rowling is a secret crocus lover? In fact... J R(owling) / J R(uksans)... it's got to be!  ;D

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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #111 on: April 01, 2021, 07:59:55 PM »
The books are quite fun by the way - not Great Literature by any means but a nice thing to read with children / grandchildren (delete as applicable). The earlier ones are more fun though, I found the later ones a bit verbose and po-faced.

And by the way, if we are looking at Harry Potter names, I think that extraordinary bluish C. baytopiorum could be called 'Veela'.
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #112 on: April 03, 2021, 07:29:15 AM »
What wonderful views in Janis's greenhouses, and all the different kinds. Thank you for showing them.
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #113 on: April 03, 2021, 12:11:42 PM »
Hi Maggi,
     Thanks for posting Janis's pics...
     I enjoyed them... And will probably go through them again later!
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #114 on: April 07, 2021, 03:40:22 PM »
A few more  pix from Janis - he  says " Blooming of crocuses practically ended, but in this entry I'm showing seedlings which are raised from Crocus heuffelianus, mostly with "blood" of cv. 'Carpathian Wonder' - this species good grower here in garden and well selfsowing if not great autumn cleaning in garden is realized.


Crocus heuffelianus #1 - Taavi Tuulik


Crocus heuffelianus #2 Taavi Tuulik


Crocus heuffelianus #4 Taavi Tuulik

Crocus heuffelianus Carpathian Wonder seedling 18-01

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Crocus heuffelianus 'Carpathian Wonder'


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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #115 on: April 07, 2021, 03:43:02 PM »
more  with C. 'Carpathian Wonder' connections ....


Crocus heuffelianus 'Polar King'- raised by Eugenius Dambrauskas

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Crocus heuffelianus 'Snow Princess' - raised by Dirk Schnabel


Seedling from Crocus heuffelianus Carpathian Wonder 21-02


Seedling from Crocus heuffelianus Carpathian Wonder 21-03


Seedling from Crocus heuffelianus Carpathian Wonder labeled as "Super improved"
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #116 on: April 10, 2021, 12:02:28 AM »
Well speechless, what a collection!!
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #117 on: April 24, 2021, 05:20:17 AM »
Many thanks Maggi for sharing my pictures. After brief look I found some from April which I can add here in two entries. Names under pictures.
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #118 on: April 24, 2021, 05:21:28 AM »
And few more
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Re: Crocus Year 2021
« Reply #119 on: April 24, 2021, 07:16:32 AM »
This is nice for breakfast.
Thanks Maggi and Janis for sharing all the beatiful pictures.
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