Crocus November 2013

[Martin Baxendale]

C. laevigatus 'Ray Cobb' is a beauty.

[Melvyn Jope]

Crocus boryi were looking fabulous in the Peloponnese last week.

[Janis Ruksans]

Now two pictures om minor "laevigatus" from Crete - Crocus laevigatus ssp. pumilus
Last flower of Crocus niveus - all other is over, this one is in seedling pot, so I suppose that late blooming caused by small size of corm
Then Crocus oreocreticus - another Cretan crocus
and as last - Crocus hyemalis collected in Israel - not opened completely its flower, may be on Sunday when again sunny day is proposed.

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus boryi were looking fabulous in the Peloponnese last week.

Excellent pictures, Melvyn. It really is beautiful crocus.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

As I wrote before - we have extremely long and warm autumn. Now usually outside can be minuses, but weather is warm and even outside first Corydalis pushed flowers through winter covering. But in pots several plants are blooming now. I'm showing those here although they are not crocuses:
Corydalis schangini schangini
Narcissus bulbocodium
Ornithogalum lanceolatum
Tulipa sp. from biflorus group collected in Kazahstan

[krisderaeymaeker]

Thanks again for the many pictures Janis . 
It is a strange bulb season and here even a bad season  for some ....(Colchicum and also some Crocus)

[krisderaeymaeker]

Crocus boryi were looking fabulous in the Peloponnese last week.

I agree on that Melvyn , at is best !

[Gerry Webster]

C. laevigatus 'Ray Cobb' is a beauty.

I think it came originally from Ronald Ginns - at least my stock did (via David Stephens & Alan Edwards). This is one of the few which is doing well here in a very bad year for crocus.

[tonyg]

thank you for the comments on the Crocus oreocreticus.
I question because last fall, i had doubts on some of these seedlings.  Seed that came as C. thomasii also bloomed like these striped C. oreoreticus.  The seed came from a donor with a large collection in Oregon, so i think there was some hybridizing in the donors garden.  However this season only one corm bloomed in this pot, i must have lost the others from too much sun and heat under a glass pane over the frame and no water this summer.

I find that Crocus thomasii is very promiscuous.  I have lots of seed raised under this name, cartwrightianus and oreocreticus but the results are so often hybrids that it is difficult to say which is which.  The seed from C thomasii produces many very beautiful offspring.

[Janis Ruksans]

I think it came originally from Ronald Ginns - at least my stock did (via David Stephens & Alan Edwards). This is one of the few which is doing well here in a very bad year for crocus.

I have two different stocks of C. laevigatus with note RAY COBB (I numbered them as #1 and #2), and the third with abbreviation CRO, decifered as Ray Cobb, too. All three I got from Jim Archibald by his wish, but looking in his "Master List" I didn't find more details.
Janis

[Gerry Webster]

I have two different stocks of C. laevigatus with note RAY COBB (I numbered them as #1 and #2), and the third with abbreviation CRO, decifered as Ray Cobb, too. All three I got from Jim Archibald by his wish, but looking in his "Master List" I didn't find more details.
Janis

David Stephens told me that Ray's plants have been distributed under two numbers: CRO 1012 which is blue &  CRO1011 which is white. These are apparently not collection numbers but Ray's personal catalogue numbers. Alan Edwards gave me the white form but seedlings from it have been white, blue & yellowish.

[Janis Ruksans]

As you can see on my earlier entry I have just CRO-1012. It is one of best.

[Rimmer de Vries]

C. laevigatus from 2008 SRGC seed blooming in the rain today.

Rimmer

[pehe]

C. laevigatus from 2008 SRGC seed blooming in the rain today.

Rimmer

Nice laevigatus. Are they from the same seed lot?

1+2 Crocus laevigatus has just started here.
3+4 My first Crocus cambessedesii
5 Some of the last Crocus tournefortii

Poul

[Rimmer de Vries]

Nice laevigatus. Are they from the same seed lot

Poul

I think so but I tend to combine lots when only a few bulbs survive. So possibly a mix.
These are planted in a sand bed by my frames.