Crocus in both hemispheres August 2008

[Lesley Cox]

Well thank Heaven that's sorted. There I was replying to all these later posts but what I was replying to wasn't in the thread section because in my inbox they were still coming up in Crocus July 08, and I didn't realize Maggi had split off a lot of it. So my comments about YOUR comments are in that thread. 

Maybe Maggi's splitting/moving episode has gone to her head and she'll need to take time off for chocolate.

[Maggi Young]

Lesley, sorry for the confusion but I suddenly realised that no-one had started an August page  so I spilt off the many posts to August..... thought I had scooped up anything that had crossover, but may have missed some, it seems.... hope you all know where you are by now? 

Actually, I now realise that the confusion was caused because I forgot to post a note on the July thread to alert you all to the move. OOPS! Sorry again....never mind, perhaps the rushingaround to find things did you all good 

[Paul T]

To add to my photos on the previous page of Crocus 'Cinderella' and 'Blue Pearl'... here is one I have received from a friend as 'Skyline'.  I am nearly positive we discussed this last year and Thomas suggested it was incorrectly named and provided me with a different name for it (at the time it was photographed at the friends place), but using the Search I can't seem to find it, but then that isn't anything unusual.    So... if Thomas or anyone had a better name for it please let me know.

Added Aug 22nd ... For those who may come across this through searching on the Net..... this plant has now been worked out to likely be a seedling of 'Skyline', not the real thing.  Thought it worthwhile noting here, just in case someone googles it and comes up with this posting.

The flower is much smaller than normal as it was only given to me a couple of weeks ago after a blackbird unearthed part of the clump just before I happened to be visiting there.  I asked at the time whether I could get a corm at the end of the season as we forgot over this summer and she lifted this one straight out of the ground for me, as she'd only just replanted it after it had been dug up by the bird.  Seems that the shock has affected the flower as it is very small and extremely short.  Still, it shows the outer markings, and the complete lack of the yellow throat that the other two I posted had.

Also a pic of Crocus sieberi 'Tricolor, which is flowering for me now as well.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Even if the name is not correct - "Skyline?" is a very nice one Paul !!

[Thomas Huber]

Paul your plant looks "nearly" like Skyline, but not exactly - I think it's just an ex-Skyline seedling!

[Paul T]

Thomas,

Thanks.  So is it the chunkier flower shape that is the problem?  I can head over to my friend's place and see if hers are flowering now (I think she mentioned they were) and get a better pic?  Actually, I probably still have last year's pics there somewhere so I'll go and look for them.  The flower on mine is much smaller than I expected, and I do have to wonder how representative it really is. 

[Guff]

Paul, did the "Skyline" have pollen, looks sterile from your picture.

[Paul T]

Guff,

No, but that may be more to do with the trauma of unearthing etc.  If it can stunt a flower, I imagine it can abort some pollen.

[Paul T]

Just been and checked my pics from my friend's place last year..... hers didn't have pollen either, and were definitely that same squat shape, rather than the more elegant flowers in Thomas' pic.  I'll prepare and post them to show you.

[Paul T]

Rather than posting new versions of pics I posted last year.... I used the timing of my photos in my friend's garden to track down the pics I posted last year. 

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=661.msg16047#msg16047

This shows the pics I took in her garden, and shows the shape as very similar to mine this year.  Thomas also said last year it was likely a seedling.  While Thomas' real 'Skyline' is far more elegant, I quite like the chunkiness of mine.  Will be interesting to see what it looks like in the future once it sets up a clump.  I think it would work very well.

It also confirms that the search feature really isn't working properly, as we referred to 'Skyline' there a few times yet those never came up in the search I did. 

[Lesley Cox]

Trying to post some new crocus pics but for some reason they're not available in My Pictures, even though they were there yesterday. They don't come up as being there at all! Can't understand it.

As well, if anyone can tell me how to get My Pictures alphabetical again, I'd be grateful. They are, if I open to browse for the Forum but if I open for any other purpose, like to upload to a newsletter I was doing this morning for my job, they're all over the place and take scrolling up and down for ages to find anything.

[Paul T]

Lesley,

I assume you've accidentally sorted them by some other means that name.  Not sure what you're using to view them (Outlook?) but you should be able to click on the column heading for Name and that should sort them into name order... you may have clicked on date or something, so they're now ordered in date order (or some other heading order).  You may need to click it twice, as the first time may put it into descending not ascending order?  Unsure whether this works in Outlook, if that is how you're doing it.

[Lesley Cox]

I don't sort them by anything Paul. I simply upload from my camera or occasionally from somewhere else like some emails that Arthur has sent me, and they used to arrange themselves alphabetically but now they don't, EXCEPT when I browse to upload to the Forum topics.

To view them I just click on My Pictures on my desktop or from the pop up menu when I click "Start."

I have no columns anywhere that I can see with "Name" or "Date" or anything else, just a left hand box with assorted picture tasks, folder tasks etc.

[Paul T]

Lesley,

Coolo.  That sorts out what you're using.  When you choose start and 'My Pictures' and it opens up with everything mixed up........ choose the "View" menu at the top (third menu from the left) and click on it.  Then select "Arrange Icons by", which will have a box appear to the right hand side, and select "Name" from that box.  I don't know why the order has changed for you, but that should change it back.  Try it and let me know how it goes.  You can use the same method to choose the date things were last modified, etc, if you wanted to at any time.

[Lesley Cox]

My God! The man's a genius. It worked! Immediately! What do you want for Christmas?