Crocus February 2015

[Ross Barbour]

Nice warm sunshine in the glass house today, perfect to encourage my next set of blooms to open.

[Ross Barbour]

and there’s more.......

[Ross Barbour]

.....and finally. I dug these up from the Garden last year where I had planted mixed corms from the 'Dutchman' a few years ago.
Anyone able to tell me something about them?

[ruben]

Ross, its crocus sieberii 'Hubert Edelsten' to me.
A very nice selection but a slow increaser to me.

[Ross Barbour]

Ross, its crocus sieberii 'Hubert Edelsten' to me.
A very nice selection but a slow increaser to me.

Great, thanks Rubin. It's doing very well in its pot, now we know what it is it can go out into the garden.

[ruben]

Some sun today! The crocusses do well in my most Southern faced bulb bed (a bed for the difficult and special ones  ).

Crocus crysanthus 'Charmer'
Crocus alatavicus
Crocus alatavicus x korolkowii

[ruben]

Crocus reticulatis x angustifolius 'Moritz'

[Hans A.]

Two Crocus in flower today - C. korolkowii 'Albus' and Crocus spec. from Iran

[Janis Ruksans]

Some sun today! The crocusses do well in my most Southern faced bulb bed (a bed for the difficult and special ones  ).

Crocus crysanthus 'Charmer'
Crocus alatavicus
Crocus alatavicus x korolkowii

Why you think that it is hybrid (Crocus alatavicus x korolkowii)? It looks completely pure korolkowii and both are not growing together at Kuramin.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Two Crocus in flower today - C. korolkowii 'Albus' and Crocus spec. from Iran

From where Iranian comes? Gothenburg BG?  Looks as C. iranicus, but could be C. gunae. Must to check leaves.
Janis

[Luc Gilgemyn]

There was some discussion last month about my Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri (or is it C. alexandri now ?) and I promised some more pictures when it opened.
We did get some sun yesterday, so here it is again.

[Janis Ruksans]

There are several cultivars (‘Alexandri’, ‘Eyecatcher’-15, ‘Ladykiller’-14) which superficially resemble wild species, but they most likely are hybrids. That is citation of my first monograph on Crocus from 1981 (in Latvian). Unfortunately I haven't petal design of cultivated Alexandri - clone distributed under this name in eighties by vanTubergen.
Janis

[ruben]

Janis, i received it as a hybrid, a cross between alatavicus and korolkowii collected in Kuramin Mts. I never been there myself so thanks a lot for the useful information! I will call it korolkowii!

[Hans A.]

From where Iranian comes? Gothenburg BG?  Looks as C. iranicus, but could be C. gunae. Must to check leaves.
Janis

It came from a location northwest from Zanjan, comparing with the latest great IRG magazine not far away  to the area where C. iranicus grows.

[Thomas Huber]

There are several cultivars (‘Alexandri’, ‘Eyecatcher’-15, ‘Ladykiller’-14) which superficially resemble wild species, but they most likely are hybrids. That is citation of my first monograph on Crocus from 1981 (in Latvian). Unfortunately I haven't petal design of cultivated Alexandri - clone distributed under this name in eighties by vanTubergen.
Janis

Janis, it can't be 'Eyecatcher' because this one has a bright yellow throat - obviously of hybrid origin...
'Ladykiller' has whitish anthers, while Luc's plant clearly has yellow anthers.

Luc's plant looks like the cultivar 'Major' with its small petals, but the colour doesn't fit. Maybe the colour
will change in the next years?? I observed such a colour changing in Crocus weldenii 'Fairy' which was
greyish in the first year, the true blue colour was only visible from the second year....

I have another Dutch plant received as Crocus alexandrii with broader petals, same dark
colour, must wait until it's flowering before I can show a photo, we still have frost and snow here.
All the other cultivars can be compared here:
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5060.0