Crocus September 2014

[krisderaeymaeker]

Crocus kotschyanus ex Janis Ruksans today.
johnw - +23c & brilliant

Hummm, Crocus in combination with caudex plants John ? 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Crocus gilanicus
Poul

Seems a gilanicus with big flowers Poul ? Mine has much smaller flowers.

[tonyg]

Great mathewii's Dirk and Tony  .

Here Crocus time stil has to start ........Except for banaticus , the first goulimyi and kotschyanus .

I don't know why but I suppose the main reason is the fact that it is stil to warm here ? (25 degrees during day and even 14 degrees at night )

We have warm days but many nights have been much cooler.  I worry about root rot when we have very warm weather after the potted crocus have been watered.  Once I lost a lot of plants to this problem.  Warm and wet at the root is not good for crocus.  A good thing that yours are still sleeping.

[johnw]

Hummm, Crocus in combination with caudex plants John ?

Nerines just stripped of their old tunics Kris.   Only one caudex plant here I'm sorry to say.

johnw

[ruben]

A first flower on Crocus biflorus ssp. melantherus. I've got this selection since 2012 but flowers for me the first time.
Another collection flowers allways around Christmas.

Is this Crocus biflorus ssp. melantherus? What could be the reason that it flower so early?

[art600]

Some Crocus pulchellus.  Very variable in colour and size!

[Tony Willis]

In flower today

Crocus hadriaticus ssp hadriaticus forma lilacina with a white one in the background.
Crocus mathewii
Crocus pulchellus
Crocus niveus
Crocus robertianus

[art600]

Tony

Excellent plants as usual.  Particularly like the Niveus

Arthur

[pehe]

Seems a gilanicus with big flowers Poul ? Mine has much smaller flowers.

In fact it is rather small.
I've just been out measuring: The closed flower is 3,5 cm long versus vallicola which is 6 cm.

Poul

[udo]

Many thanks Poul, Ruben and Kris.
It seems to become a good flowery autumn.

Ruben, i have also the first shots from Crocus melantherus.
Maybe the early spring still works, or we get an early winter.

[Janis Ruksans]

Dirk, fantastic white Crocus karduchorum! Envy you for such beauty.

With me started more abundant blooming and only this morning I finished typing of planting book for autumn crocuses so now I had time for Forum.
At first Crocus autranii – I finally got authentical wild plants.
The next is the darkest Crocus banaticus seen by me and most surprisingly – it is seedling of white C. banaticus ‘Snowdrift’.
Following is very typical Crocus bolensis from speciosus family collected by me at Abant Lake.
Next picture is of true Crocus oreocreticus grown from seeds collected by Marcus on Crete. Previous stocks unfortunately turned mix with hadriaticus (were bought by me from good grower) I tried to clean, but again some hadriaticus appeared this year.
And as the last today – best of Crocus suworovianus stocks HN-0114 – originally collected by my Czech friend and in my book erroneously published as C. hakkariensis which really is much less spectacular.
Janis

[Maggi Young]

 Janis : Both Ian and I are speechless at the beauty of that  C. suworovianus  HN-0114 

[Steve Garvie]

Janis : Both Ian and I are speechless at the beauty of that  C. suworovianus  HN-0114 

A stunning Crocus Janis!!!

[Janis Ruksans]

Today some white bloomers – day was very sunny and flowers nicely opened.
At first white form of Crocus pallasii from its locus classicus – Crimea. Flowers a little old, so not of best shape, but still glistening white
From Crimea comes white form of Crocus puringhiorum now puringiorum, comparing with following albino of Crocus bolensis note the position of stigma (both are from speciosus family)
Crocus vallicola from Caucasus – note the very typical tips of petals
As last in this entry (for some more colour) – excellent form of Crocus mathewii – JJJ-020.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Two more whites
Crocus cartwrightianus
and Crocus mazziaricus from Pellopones
Janis
P.S. Maggi and Ian - many thanks for compliments. I like HN-0114 very much, too