Crocus in pots February 2010

[johnw]

Dirk - You have some real treasures there. 

johnw

[Janis Ruksans]

some flowers from a Sunday without sun:
Crocus carpetanus
    ``   herbertii
    ``   sieberi ssp.nivalis
    ``   sieberi ssp.sublimis
    ``   sieberi ssp.sublimis x gargaricus
    ``   ex bornmuelleri

Many thanks for so nice pictutres. Never before saw so dark bornmuellerii. Is it from wild or crossed in your collection? Beautiful is hybrid between C. atticus subsp. sublimuis and C. gargaricus.
Janis

[Ragged Robin]

Dirk, you've grown some real beauties, I particularly like crocus ex bornmuelleri 

[udo]

some flowers from a Sunday without sun:
Crocus carpetanus
    ``   herbertii
    ``   sieberi ssp.nivalis
    ``   sieberi ssp.sublimis
    ``   sieberi ssp.sublimis x gargaricus
    ``   ex bornmuelleri

Many thanks for so nice pictutres. Never before saw so dark bornmuellerii. Is it from wild or crossed in your collection? Beautiful is hybrid between C. atticus subsp. sublimuis and C. gargaricus.
Janis

Janis, the seed is from this wild coll. Cr.bornmuelleri.
Mark, my Crocus grow in 2 litre pots or open bed.
Gerry, this cross is handpollinating with a paintbrush.

[mark smyth]

2L  . Do they do better because of the large volume of pot contents

[I.S.]

After long weeks with many snow, some Crocus today:
Crocus biflorus ssp., Goktepe, Turkey, geneticly similar Cr.bifl.ssp tauri
    ''     cyprius
    ''     hartmannianus from C-Cyprus, this year in my list
    ''     korolkowii 'Golden Nugget'
  

There are many places named GOKTEPE in Turkey, which one, in which part of country grew this black anthered biflorus? It isn't taurii of course. I never hear about black anthered taurii.
Janis

Janis, i have this Crocus from Cambridge Bulbs under the name Crocus biflorus ssp.nubigena. I ask Helmut Kerndorff with a picture and location, he write me, this biflorus is geneticly similar Cr.biflorus ssp.tauri. Ok, the flower is more similar Cr.biflorus ssp.caricus. Correct names for ssp. from Cr. biflorus is a great mystery.

When I have seen this picture last year when Dirk posted here I thought that might be subsp. caricus but I saw this crocus on wild this week. I can say this is not caricus ofcourse not tauri too! by the leaves it looks to nubigena but not very clear. The strips are mostly on ceamy backround something like crewei. The location is in Caria where I was looking for caricus! This might be also something new! I wil try to compare with nubigena in my garden if there is any differents between. At first my nubigena has black spot on throath which this has not !!