Crocus December

[ruben]

Nice pictures everyone!
Cold weather in Belgium but the first (Spring) - winter crocusses show there colours. To cold to open the flowers but the outside is also very beautiful.
Crocus suaveolens 'De Jager'
Crocus leavigatus CEH 613

[krisderaeymaeker]

A wonderful array of crocus Oron!
Nice series of Crocus wattiorum Kris!
I'm a bit late but here is my plant (recent light levels here have been atrocious, the flower opened under a small spotlight):

Great shots of a great plant Steve ! Worth wile to wait a bit .......

[I.S.]

Here is my first spring Crocus as usual.
C. demirizianus allways start to flower in the beginning of december with me.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Quite new to me, Ibrahim !
But it's another topcrocus !!

[Maggi Young]

Here is my first spring Crocus as usual.
C. demirizianus allways start to flower in the beginning of december with me.

  Such a beauty, Ibrahim.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/genera/logdir/2014Feb061391706509CROCUS_DEMIRIZIANUS.pdf

[Janis Ruksans]

Instead of horrible frost here came very mild weather. Yesterday was the highest temperature ever registered in 19th December + 9 C. Still some crocuses bloom, but only Crocus tournefourtii keeps flowers open. Surprisingly long and late is blooming of some Crocus niveus stocks. For Crocus laevigatus late blooming is usual and there are forms blooming in spring, too. Strange looks crocus received from Jim Archibald as C. cartwrightianus var. creticus. By B. Mathew it is worth of greater attention about its status.
But great attention must be given to all autumn blooming crocuses. Mild, dark and wet weather conditions are the best for Penicillium and Fusarium. So carefully must be removed all last flowers. Sometimes flower you take off, but flower tube remain attached (especially with C. goulimyi) and it is spot where start infection. Sometimes even cataphylls must be checked. Several species from C. speciosus group push shoots with leaf tips out of soil late autumn. Cataphylls of those quite often got penicillium infection. Sometimes species from C. pallasii group forms long cataphyll tube, not allowing for leaves to spread. In case of C. speciosus s.l. and C. pallasi s.l. (and others, too) I’m taking leaf tips by fingers and pushing them to sides and cataphyll tube then is splitting. More air allows quicker drying and infected parts of cataphylls can be removed. On attached picture you can see cataphylls lying down and with black spots of starting penicillium infection (right top corner). As secondary infection came Fusarium nivale. They all must be removed and I recommend in first sunny day to spray autumn crocuses with some fungicide used on golf-courses against Fusarium nivale.
Janis

[Oron Peri]

Here is C. cartwightianus var. creticus, usually flowers later than the common variety.

[Yann]

Crocus laevigatus pumilus

[Maggi Young]

Super flowers from Oron and Yann - here we are troubled, as is Janis, about the problems of rot and moulds  http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Dec101418207903BULB_LOG_5014.pdf

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great to see these wonderful Crocus so late in the season Yann, Oron and Janis !! 

[Janis Ruksans]

Merry Christmas!

[Yann]

This morning a gift was waiting for me.
Crocus reticulatus ssp hittiticus

[Janis Ruksans]

This morning a gift was waiting for me.
Crocus reticulatus ssp hittiticus

Now Crocus hittiticus!
Janis

[art600]

I will put my photos of hitticus when I return from sunny Spain - you can't beat Christmas lunch on the beach.

Found I had loaded a spent battery rather than a full battery so no pictures.

Have both striped and stippled hitticus

[Yann]

Yes Janis, following Baytop and ipni records.
Arthur: lucky man