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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #105 on: October 24, 2016, 06:57:47 AM »
The fourth is superb.
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #106 on: October 24, 2016, 01:42:46 PM »
Some great crocus  - and many other fab plants too, of course - at the Kent Alpine show of the AGS in Sutton Valence School last weekeind - here is Don Peace's photo from Twitter of Alan Furness with his Farrer Medal Winning plant, Crocus banaticus 'Snowdrift' - really nice to see crocus winning!
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #107 on: October 24, 2016, 08:44:53 PM »
What a great pot.

I have many Crocus speciosus in my lawn or meadow and they are spreading everywhere. Unfortunately also bulbs and seed received as other species have turned out to be Crocus speciosus.
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #108 on: October 25, 2016, 03:58:38 AM »
Nice pictures Luc, especially the sequence of Crocus karduchorum.

That flower is absolutely determined to get pollinated.  I've never seen such a brazen crocus before.
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #109 on: October 25, 2016, 08:35:11 AM »
I have many Crocus speciosus in my lawn or meadow and they are spreading everywhere. Unfortunately also bulbs and seed received as other species have turned out to be Crocus speciosus.

Morning Sokol, unfortunately it often happens that you get C. speciosus instead of your ordered species, but it depends on the source from which you got your plants..... gardencenters often contain wrong corms and also wholesale dealers are no more reliable, but there are still many small, private dealers from which you can buy good and true plants.

Re C. karduchorum: Most plants in trade are not flowering, and if flowering not true but C. kotschyanus leucopharynx... this mistake is known for decades, but still valid. The true karduchorum is a very rare plant and only available from special dealers or from seed exchanges.
Thomas Huber, Neustadt - Germany (230m)

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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #110 on: October 25, 2016, 08:48:38 AM »
Some photos from my garden in the last days:
068 - My bulblawn in the late sun
079 - Crocus speciosus Albus + Artabir looking great together
076 - C. speciosus in my lawn
009 - My favourite speciosus: An unnamed small and dark flower with a very strong stem. Could be the original plant of speciosus 'Aino'....
039 - Crocus mazziaricus from the Peloponnese
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #111 on: October 25, 2016, 08:51:11 AM »
Some more impressions from my crocuslawn
Crocus cambessedesii from Mallorca
Crocus tournefortii from Greece
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #112 on: October 25, 2016, 08:53:31 AM »
... and another favourite of mine: Crocus ligusticus from Liguria/Italy
The white one took me 9 years of hard search.....
Thomas Huber, Neustadt - Germany (230m)

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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #113 on: October 25, 2016, 09:00:34 AM »
Superb crocusses Thomas!

I really love cambessedesii and the white ligusticus! Well done!

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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #114 on: October 25, 2016, 07:12:08 PM »
yep what a carpet 8) in the darkness of the evening, the deep yellow of this niveus late form.
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #115 on: October 25, 2016, 07:17:14 PM »
Nice Yann

Crocus armeniacum
Crocus ibrahimii
Crocus niveus large form MELJ 1109
Crocus ligustivus TCH 15- Crocus puringiorum

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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #116 on: October 25, 2016, 07:18:03 PM »
Crocus mathewii
Crocus ochroleucus
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #117 on: October 25, 2016, 07:57:30 PM »
mathewii bouquet  :o
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #118 on: October 25, 2016, 08:34:25 PM »
Just a couple from the greenhouse today:-

Crocus goulimyi
and from Crocus Group 2012 seed sown October 2012 and flowering for the first time C. vernus, or is it?? Should it be this early?
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Re: Crocus October 2016
« Reply #119 on: October 25, 2016, 09:16:28 PM »
Morning Sokol, unfortunately it often happens that you get C. speciosus instead of your ordered species, but it depends on the source from which you got your plants..... gardencenters often contain wrong corms and also wholesale dealers are no more reliable, but there are still many small, private dealers from which you can buy good and true plants.

Re C. karduchorum: Most plants in trade are not flowering, and if flowering not true but C. kotschyanus leucopharynx... this mistake is known for decades, but still valid. The true karduchorum is a very rare plant and only available from special dealers or from seed exchanges.

Thnx Thomas for your explanations. Yes, I bought my Crocus in gardencenters, when I started to grow autumn crocus.
Wonderful pictures and it looks if they are growing completely outside.
Stefan
Southern Bavaria, zone 7a

 


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