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Bulbs => Crocus => Topic started by: Steve Garvie on March 04, 2016, 05:33:25 PM
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A cold start to March in Fife and other parts of the UK.
Here is a little winter warmth courtesy of Tony Willis (Crocus x gothoburgensis selections):
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Resplendent
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Stunning as always :D
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:o :o :o Lost for words !
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good pictures, Steve :D
Here some from my garden:
Crocus cvijicii
'' olivieri istanbulensis
'' imperati, more difficult as suaveolens
'' sieberi 'Chiara'
'' x veluchensis 'Rainbow Gold'
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fery few Crocus to show, we need sunshine.
Crocus x 'Karin'
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After returning from Greece greenhouse full with flower, regardless of complete snow cover outside and minus 9 C last night. Here some most impressive and interesting crocuses.
Crocus angustifolius - from Crimea - terriotory temporarily occupied by Russia
Crocus corsicus from Mt. Cinto - from Dirck
Crocus nubigena aff. from Karpathos Isl., Greece - most likely new and will be published by HKEP
Another Crocus nubigena aff. from Samos Isl., Greece
Crocus sp. near Odessa - danubensis, reticulatus or something special
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Some more
Crocus species nova - intend to name Crocus stevensii after longterm travel partner od Jim Archibald Norman Stevens
Seedling of Crocus antalyensioides - most likely hybrid with C. flavus or C. mouradii
White form of Crocus mawii
And as last today - two pictures of the dwarfest crocus - danfordiae aff. - flower size in length only 11-14 mm
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Nice show Janis, these nubigena are marvelous.
I hope you had a good trip.
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At last some warm sunshine today to open some crocus in the garden
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Crocus herbertii
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more cheery yellows
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At last we got spring here ;D
Crocus tommasianus in different forms
Poul
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One of my favorite hybrids:
Crocus chrysanthus Eye Catcher
Poul
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Crocus baytopiorum
Crocus sieberi Bowles White
Crocus chrysanthus Constellation
Crocus Hubert Edelsten
Poul
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Crocus chrysanthus Elegance
Crocus chrysanthus Herald
Crocus chrysanthus Milea and tommasianus
Crocus recticulatus x Janis Ruksans
Poul
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A Janis Ruksans hybrid: Yalta
Crocus imperatii de Jager
Crocus cvijicii
Crocus veluchensis
Poul
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And the last ones today
Crocus heuffelianus Carpathian Wonder
Crocus heuffelianus Snow Princess
Poul
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Today outside minus 1 C. But something blooms even in so dark and cold day.
Here various forms of Crocus angustifolius. All those corme were sent to me by Ukrainian friends just after Russian occupation of Crimea. All come from Ai-Petri Yaila. First blooming with me.
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Crocus heuffelianus Snow Princess - selected by Dirk and two pictures of true Crocus isauricus
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two of Crocus mawii
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Crocus nubigena affinitas from Karpathos continue surprise me. I collected only 10 corms for myself and 5 for friend on two minor open spots just below mountain top after long and heavy search (had strong heart arrhythmia following night). Two pictures I showed before, but it continue surprise me. What will open from this yellow bud - will see tomorrow or on Tuesday
Then two Crocus pallidus from Republic of Macedonia, differs by basal lobe colour of anthers - one has plain yellow, another with black tips. Both collected by Henrik Zetterlund.
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And as last today
Crocus scepusinensis - Polland
Crocus sieberi selection
Crocus tahtaliensis HKEP-9716
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Janis,some lovely crocuses,thanks for showing them
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C. h. Snow Princess is lovely!
An un-named form of C. heuffelianus has been in flower here and is about to go over. I'm a bit concerned about the streaking...
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C. h. Snow Princess is lovely!
An un-named form of C. heuffelianus has been in flower here and is about to go over. I'm a bit concerned about the streaking...
It is virus and it isn't heuffelianus
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It's destined for the bin.
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Few days ago I showed some crocuses from Karpathos Island in Greece and one with yellow bud. They all are at present regarded as "Crocus nubigena". Here some more pictures with the "yellow"as the first and on last picture its habitat (crocus were seen on those small spots between very spiny shrubs). To force opening I brought pot inside for around hour - weather here still very cloudy and cold - for next week forecasted minus 10.
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Crocus greenhouse with non-annulate species today (outside still deep snow and more snowing offered)
Then true Crocus istanbulensis from type locality.
Next pale yellow C. chrysanthus from Boz-dag in Turkey
And as last C. thirkeanus (herbertii) from Uludag - rare paler coloured form in front.
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Some hours of sun today allowed to make some pictures.
Greatest surprise - this yellow crocus in pot with seedlings of Cretan C. sieberi - most likely hybrid with C. cvijicii blooming just now, too. My first opinion was that seed of cvijicii mixed in, but deep purple flower tube showed that it isn't cvijicii. And shade of yellow is different, too.
Crocus vernus (former albiflorus) from Slovenia
Crocus aerius from Soģanli pass
Crocus munzurense
Crocus pelistericus
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Some more from today
Crocus corsicus Plato d'Alzea
Crocus heuffelianus sdlg Taavi Tuulik #1
Crocus minimus early form
Crocus suaveolens
Crocus violaceus
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fantastic as ever :D
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Some more crocuses.
The first is Crocus antalyensis approximately from where subsp. gemicii is published. Is it correctly named, I'm not certain, but looks very similar.
To compare - typical antalyensis from not far from type locality.
From 10 collected corms of new Crocus duncanii - 4 bloomed with me. Very good, because was collected just at blooming time.
Crocus kosaninii this spring looks fantastically, completely changed my opinion about this species
And the last picture of visitor to birds feeding place, pictured through window where I'm working on computer.
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Few more from today.
Will start with leucostylosus. It really is true species. This year started blooming seedlings and all as one has white styles (they are grown from open pollinated seeds). There was discussion long ago on forum - is this real species or only occasional mutation. Now its status is confirmed weithout DNA checking.
Then Crocus from biflorus group - still unidentified/unnamed ? from near Sivas in Turkey
And last in this entry - crocus vernus (former albiflorus).
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Regardless of frost and snowing all the day (during day snow level raised up for 12 cm) in greenhouse some flowers stay open and it was possible to make few pictures.
The first is Crocus sublimis, easy separable by its hairy throat pictured on the second slide.
Then most unusual Crocus veluchensis from Macedonia in Greece
And as last two today - a pair different genetically, but difficult to identify if you don't know exact origin of stock
Crocus neapolitanus
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Crocus neglectus
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A gift of shar mountains- south kosovo.
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Crocus cvijicii 'Albus' from Vermion Mts. in Greece
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Lovely C. cvijicii 'Albus' Dirk. Mine is also flowering.
Crocus malyi
Crocus minimus Bavella
Crocus vernus v. leucorhincus in shade, about to open
Crocus vernus v. leucorhincus fully open in sun
Crocus vernus
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Some lovely crocuses,a somewhat less inspiring one .I think it is only a white form of C. cvijicii but has been written up as a species.
Crocus jablanicensis
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Interesting white , Tony.
For those interested, it was published as "Crocus jablanicensis (Iridaceae), a New Species from the Republic of Macedonia, Balkan Peninsula" in an article in Annales Botanici Fennici 49(1-2):99-102 · April 2012 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235660562_Crocus_jablanicensis_Iridaceae_a_New_Species_from_the_Republic_of_Macedonia_Balkan_Peninsula (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235660562_Crocus_jablanicensis_Iridaceae_a_New_Species_from_the_Republic_of_Macedonia_Balkan_Peninsula)
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Ranđelović, N., Ranđelović, V. & Hristovski, N. 2012: Crocus jablanicensis (Iridaceae), a new spe-cies from the Republic of Macedonia, Balkan Peninsula. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 49: 99–102. Crocus jablanicensis N. Randj. & V. Randj. sp. nova (Iridaceaeis described from the Balkan Peninsula. It is found on Mt. Jablanica in the western part of Macedonia, where it grows in alpine grasslands around snowmelts. It is compared with the morphologi-cally similar C. cvijicii and C. veluchensis. In contrast to these species, C. jablanicen-sis has white styles and stigmas and a glabrous, white perianth throat. According to Maw (1886) and Mathew (1982, 1983) the largest number of species from the genus Crocus occur on the Balkan Peninsula. Of the 31 species of Crocus now known from the peninsula (Mathew 1982, Ranđelović et al. 1990), 18 occur within the territory of the Repub-lic of Macedonia. Seven of them are Balkan endemics, including four species in the Scardo-Pindian mountains: C. pelistericus, C. scardicus, C. cvijicii and C. sublimi. The populations of C. pelistericus and C. scardicus (ser. Scardici) and C. cvijicii and C. veluchensis (ser. Reticulati) are found in the alpine and subalpine regions at altitudes above 1800 m (Ranđelović et al. 2007). On the Krstač, Strižak and Čuma peaks of the Jablanica mountain (Fig. 1), large populations of an unknown species of Crocus with white flow-ers were found in 2007. On the basis of compara-tive analysis with the congenerics, these popula-tions are here described as a new species in the section Nudiscapus and the series Reticulati. Crocus jablanicensis N. Randj. & V. Randj., sp. nova
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Crocus veluchensis, Rila Mts. Bulgaria x Crocus thirkeanus, NE-Turkey
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Crocus? a new currency ???
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/helenenivoixlapostenet/blog/080116/shortest-way-soft-and-smart-revolution-crocus-currency
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Pleased to see the voles did not eat all the crocuses in this part of the garden last year. These three are flowering and there are a few small leaves where some of the other varieties were planted.
Crocus dalmaticus
Crocus 'Shock Wave'
Crocus 'Ruby Giant'
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The moss give a nice background
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A new named Crocus heuffelianus. A cross made by Juris Egle (called heuffelianus Nr x 4) but he gaved this seedling to me. Its a honor to name it Crocus heuffelianus 'Rubjur' (Rub(en) and Jur(is). Its special cause of its allmost black flowering tube and tips.
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A new named Crocus heuffelianus. A cross made by Juris Egle (called heuffelianus Nr x 4) but he gaved this seedling to me. Its a honor to name it Crocus heuffelianus 'Rubjur' (Rub(en) and Jur(is). Its special cause of its allmost black flowering tube and tips.
Very nice it is, too.
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'Rainbow Gold'
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Daniel, why not post your lovely pictures on the Forum in the normal way? I'm probably not the only one who hates sites that full of dubious advertising material which can so easily lead to virus/spamming transfers.
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a small collage ;D
Better, David? Many Thanks!!!
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1. wild crocuses in Drebach
2. crocuses from Dirk
3. my meadow
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Perfect Daniel, lovely pictures.
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Crocus cvijicii
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Crocus cvijicii KV681
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Crocus (heuffelianus) vernus
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Crocus vernus Carpathian Wonder
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Crocus vernus leucorinchus
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Today I visited again Gresten in Lower Austria. At this time of the yeas the place is famous for it masses of Crocus neapolitanus. Said to be introduced by the Romans - bit I am not really convinced...
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Great place - superb photos, Herbert.
I remember years ago I have seen photos from this place from Johannes Höller.
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Crocus single crop farming :o
Steve stunning photos.
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1. wild crocuses in Drebach
2. crocuses from Dirk
3. my meadow
I've also planted a lot in the grass.
How do they come back every year if we want to mow the lawn?
I turn around and I large clumps of grass everywhere. It is not very aesthetic. At home, with such quantity, you mow how long after flowering?
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Crocus cvijcii,the pale lemon form from Mt. Magaro ,Fyrom which I much prefer to the deep yellow one.
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A beautiful form Tony!!!
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I've also planted a lot in the grass.
How do they come back every year if we want to mow the lawn?
I turn around and I large clumps of grass everywhere. It is not very aesthetic. At home, with such quantity, you mow how long after flowering?
Thomas Huber will be able to tell us the best time to wait, I think - but it is usually said that at least six weeks after flowering. I would personally want to wait till the leaves were starting to go yellow - but I am perhaps too fearful.
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I am also waiting until everything is yellow but in the meantime, it is not very happy. I think placing a guardian over each to dig up later and put in a flat strip. Unless six weeks is sufficient.
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Hello Fred (!) I cut when the crocus leaves turn yellow and I still make it with the lawn mower. My lawn is fortunately very meager. Daniel
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Crocus pelistericus,a bi-coloured form flowering for the first time
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Very striking Tony!
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Crocus pelistericus,a bi-coloured form flowering for the first time
That's very special Tony. Was it unexpected, or seed from a similar parent?
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Some bog standard crocus pictures. The large bowl is full of crocus which I obtained gratis from a local store who were giving away free unsold bulbs from last year.
I came back with crocus, narcissus, hyacinths, tulips and chinodoxias - some 300 bulbs in total. They have all been planted in pots and seem to be thriving
The lack of wind and rain the past two weeks have allowed the bulbs to stay upright and flower instead of being flattened.
Pictures 15/17 are from a local park
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What an amazing collection of crocuses from everyone. Thanks so much for showing them, just as my own are starting their autumn cycle. I have C. serotinus salzmannii out at present. :)
It seems from the contents of this thread that one should take every opportunity available, to grow Crocus heuffelianus from seed, especially wild seed. I just love these flowers with their apical markings.
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Carpets of flowers. I find it beautiful. This leaves me dreamer.
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That's very special Tony. Was it unexpected, or seed from a similar parent?
I have been crossing the blue and white ones for some time and this is one that arose from them. Most are quite ordinary