Crocus February 2015

[Eric Breed]

Crocus reticulatus Little Amber

[Eric Breed]

Crocus pestalozzae

[ruben]

Stunning pictures Janis!

I very much like the taseliensis? HKEP - such nice colour contrast!

[Thomas Huber]

One sunny day in Germany - but temperatures not above 7°C - was enough to open the first Crocus flowers in my garden. The first flowers came out 6 weeks ago, but have never opened so far (Crocus sieberi Firefly - the blue spot in the middle of the first photo)

-023 view over my lawn
-034 last year I selected some chrysanthus hybrids from the lawn and replanted them in the rockgarden-bed
-056 do I have to worry about the amount of Galanthus in my crocus-garden 
-051 chysanthus Blue Peter in flower and Spring Pearl coming out
-012 versicolor and chrysanthus hybrids mixed

[Thomas Huber]

-Crocus neglectus - the new species from Liguria/Italy
-Crocus tommasinianus - I found many pink forms this year in the lawn 
-054 Crocus biflorus Major and chrysanthus Elegance
Crocus weldenii - the wild form from Italy and Slovenia
Crocus gargaricus from Eric Breed

[Thomas Huber]

- This one is also from Eric Breed - he received them from Nijssen 20 years ago as Crocus biflorus, which it obviously not is. Anyone an idea which species ??
-001 Crocus flavus, chrysanthus Goldene Sonne and Milea
-050 again more Galanthus then Crocus .... 

[Maggi Young]

Sun and crocus - life ifs good in your garden, Hubi!

[Thomas Huber]

Sun and crocus - life ifs good in your garden, Hubi!

Ooohh yeah - it really is 

[Tim Ingram]

Wonderful crocus and snowdrop lawn Thomas - would like to do something similar but it might take a few years! We have a patch with crocus and later on narcissus and tulips like this but need to expand the vision.

This is a picture from Harris Howland's garden (Harris was chairman of the Lily Group for a long time) taken a few days ago when the sun was shining! A small garden but packed with colour. The crocus especially and eranthis were buzzing with bees.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

One sunny day in Germany - but temperatures not above 7°C - was enough to open the first Crocus flowers in my garden. The first flowers came out 6 weeks ago, but have never opened so far (Crocus sieberi Firefly - the blue spot in the middle of the first photo)

-023 view over my lawn
-034 last year I selected some chrysanthus hybrids from the lawn and replanted them in the rockgarden-bed
-056 do I have to worry about the amount of Galanthus in my crocus-garden 
-051 chysanthus Blue Peter in flower and Spring Pearl coming out
-012 versicolor and chrysanthus hybrids mixed

Your lawn has recovered magnificently from the black late frost of a few years ago Hubi !!
Looks gorgeous !

[ian mcenery]

Slow with me but is a favourite tommy Eric Smith. Usually they have 8 petal/sepals but one has 10

Also some herbertii

[hadacekf]

Thomas,
Beautiful crocus and snowdrop lawn -    congratulation!

[Cyril L]

Wonderful show of crocus and galanthus Thomas.

Slow with me but is a favourite tommy Eric Smith. Usually they have 8 petal/sepals but one has 10

Ian, I can see why this is a favourite tommy, super.

Crocus sieberi ss. nivalis from seeds sown 2010 flowering for the first time on a raised bed.  Quite a variation of colours.

[annew]

Great to see your snowdrop lawn, Thomas. You need to weed out all the yellow and purple things though.
Or maybe - how about more yellow things, some narcissus perhaps?

[Thomas Huber]

..You need to weed out all the yellow and purple things though. ....

 


Luc: Yes, my lawn is doing very well with the surviving plants and the best is:
I can be sure that these plants are now well adapted to my climate