Crocus January 2015

[Yann]

Damn this one is catch eyes

[ruben]

Crocus crysanthus 'Herald'
Crocus alatavicus
Crocus vitellinus
Crocus sieberii ssp. sieberii ex crete

[Yann]

Crocus atticus ssp atticus Ronald Ginns
Crocus atticus sublimis MICHAEL HOOG’S MEMORY’ (Janis)
Crocus biflorus weldenii 'Fairy' (and not Albus, thx Thomas)
Crocus chrysanthus 'Herald'

[Yann]

Crocus vitellinus

[Thomas Huber]

It's so wonderful to see all those beautiful Crocus in the sun here, my plants have been covered with snow today.

Tatsuo, your plants seem to feel very well in your climate!

Ruben, it would be interesting to see another photo of your 'Herald' when its open. From your photo it looks like the yellow colour is to bright - Yann's plant looks true with its softer yellow colour.

Yann, your biflorus looks like the cultivar 'Fairy' - 'Albus' is white all over without any other colour.

[Yann]

Thomas you're right, sorry i made a mistake labelling my photo. It's Fairy.

[Tony Willis]

some very lovely flowers,it seems to be a good year so far.

Two in flower today

Crocus nevadensis

Crocus vernus ( I have kept it as this although I think they have all been renamed but i do not have the details)

[krisderaeymaeker]

some very lovely flowers,it seems to be a good year so far.
Two in flower today
Crocus nevadensis
Crocus vernus ( I have kept it as this although I think they have all been renamed but i do not have the details)

Nice soft colour Tony . Sunny afternoon here today .....   

[Cyril L]

Lovely crocus from all.  Apart from varieties of Crocus michelsonii, C. aerius and C. chrysanthus 'Sunspot', there is not much in flower here as it has been cold over the last 2 weeks.  The ground is still frozen.

Kris, you must have good light levels for the flowers to be on short stems.  The best place to grow Crocus must be Japan as Tatsuo has shown on numerous occasions.

[mark smyth]

Crocus crysanthus 'Herald'

wow!! 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris, you must have good light levels for the flowers to be on short stems.  The best place to grow Crocus must be Japan as Tatsuo has shown on numerous occasions.

Hi Cyril , I put some near the roof of the glashouse . First weeks of january  it was not possible to have short flower stems here  because it was not cold enough and to cloudy. Now we had more open weather and light frost and this is much better .

But I like them with short stems , like the second flower on this Crocus bafflers ssp. issauricus .
Also 'Sunspot' is short enough.
In the case of C. taseliensis we can see the difference between the flower from the first period en the flowers from now.

[Cyril L]

Kris, these crocus are well grown and compact, the way I like them.  Scottish weather has been rather dull and damp and my C. 'Sunspot' is a little elongated.  I love the C. taseliensis, one of the newly described species, wonderful combination of white petals, yellow and black stamens, red style with speckling on the reverse of the outer petals.  I have asked Janis and Liga for this but no reply yet.

[Tony Willis]

Crocus biflorus alexandri

quite pleased with this as it camee from a random collection of crocus seed pods I made on Mt Falackro in Northern Greece most of which are C. pulchellus.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Crocus biflorus alexandri
quite pleased with this as it camee from a random collection of crocus seed pods I made on Mt Falackro in Northern Greece most of which are C. pulchellus.

  I can imagine that you are pleased Tony !

[Steve Garvie]

Wow Tony!!!   
A real serendipitous find!
This is indeed a stunning crocus!