Crocus January 2010

[mark smyth]

hiMichael, you have been quiet recently. The sieberi I sent you must be flowering by now?

[BULBISSIME]

We never see Crocus in the wild behave quite like that- so maybe it is a combination of the sunlight as well as heat of a greenhouse?
I imagine it would be detrimental in the wild- the poor bees would keep falling off!   

May be the heat but in fact, every year with full sun and 'warm january day' i get the same shape.
Goblet shape is only with shade.

[Michael J Campbell]

hiMichael, you have been quiet recently. The sieberi I sent you must be flowering by now?

Don't know Mark, I will look for it tomorrow.

[I.S.]

We never see Crocus in the wild behave quite like that- so maybe it is a combination of the sunlight as well as heat of a greenhouse?
I imagine it would be detrimental in the wild- the poor bees would keep falling off!  

May be the heat but in fact, every year with full sun and 'warm january day' i get the same shape.
Goblet shape is only with shade.

Fred I think also like Janis whenever I take any crocus inside to take picture, allways happens same shape,

[Hristo]

Michael, another lovely sequence of flowers, the C.fleischeri is my fav from your elegant bunch!

[Armin]

Hendrik,
indeed your C. biflorus ssp. nubigena are stunning!
Any experience to please the specis in the open garden?

[I.S.]

  Hendrik,
Do you know original location of your nubigena came?
My nubigena has allways black spot in throat which I can not see in yours!
 

[udo]

Sunshine today so some crocus in bloom.

Crocus  baytopiorum in sun.
Crocus  baytopiorum in shade,
Crocus  flavus
Crocus  fleischer
Crocus  imperatii De Jager
Crocus  laevigatus
Crocus  sieberi subsp atticus
Crocus tommasinianus CEH534
Crocus  uschak orange.
Crocus  vernus subsp vernus heuffelianus (not true,possible hyb)

Michael, your last crocus is possible Cr.vernus 'Yalta' ( vernus x tommasinianus ),
several trader offered this form under the name heuffelianus.

[Thomas Huber]

MIchael, I'm with Dirk, 'Yalta' or probably 'Haarlem Gem'
I had the same plants from Dix years ago, when I ordered heuffelianus.

[Thomas Huber]

Does anyone know if the black stigma of chrysanthus 'Sunspot' can temporarily revert to normal orange-yellow for a season and then back to black again? One of the two corms I had from Pottertons last autumn has produced flowers with orange-yellow stigmas, and the other the expected black stigmas. Don't want to complain if it's just a temporary reversion and will have black stigmas next year.

Martin I also had a corm with non-black stigmas in 2009, but the seller replaced it last autumn.
Now i'm hoping that I will have the true plant after the snow is gone.

[Michael J Campbell]

Thanks folks,it has now been consigned to the crocus bed in the garden and the label changed to Yalta.