Crocus November 2008

[Maggi Young]

Here are a couple of pix of Crocus cartwrightianus forms from Jim Kee.... I have to say I find it so cute that they are growing next to those cactus....just seems so incongruous to a UK gardener!! Delaware, it seems, is a different world, huh? !!
So, from Jim in Delaware....They are two different forms of C. cartwrightianus, one from Crete..
C. cartwrightianus ex Rodopou, Crete




the other from seed of good old CEH 613........

[mark smyth]

This is Crocus 'Big Boy'

[David Nicholson]

Very pretty.

[Armin]

Maggi,
a nice clump of C. cartwrightianus.

Mark,
excellent - do you have also a picture comparing "Big Boy" with ordninary C.speciosus to see its real size?

[fermi de Sousa]

Here are a couple of pix of Crocus cartwrightianus forms from Jim Kee....

Is it just me or do others think about all that saffron when they see a wonderful picture like this? Maybe moreso because of being in India at the moment
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Fermi, I think saffron, too, though, as you know, it doesn't take much to make me think food at any time.
Jim has got these crocus growing very nicely, hasn't he?

[David Shaw]

I think that is a wonderful picture of the crocus and cactus growing together. Climate change or two micro-climates?

[Jim]

Hello all,
Thank you again Maggi for posting for me. I will get the hang of this. David, To answer your question,I think a little bit of both. We have certainly had some mild winters here in Delaware, but this bed is on the south facing side of my house with an over hang from the roof that keeps it fairly dry. The Cactus give me something to see in the bed when the bulbs aren't up. I have a few Eriogonums and Viola pedatas in the bed also. I never thought about collecting the Saffron. I might have to do that.
Jim

[mark smyth]

Armin it didnt flower this year.

[snowdropman]

Here are a couple of pix of Crocus cartwrightianus forms from Jim Kee.... 

Jim - superb photos - you really show these crocus at their best

[Oron Peri]

Not many Crocus in flower at the moment, but certainly the rare C. moabiticus takes all the attention.

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Oron, your C. moabiticus is fine... but I can still be charmed by the C. laevigatus and C. hyemalis 

[udo]

Oron,
the Crocus moabiticus is really very beautiful

here my last flowers for this autumn
Crocus tournefortii 'Albus' and Crocus veneris
in the greenhouse

[I.S.]

Oron all your crocus are classy but C. hyemalis is more then classy!
It is realy geat to see all these nice crocus on my screen.
I have recieved a crocus photo from my friend which taken in NGBB 22.11.08  with a tag, C. reticulatus subsp. hittiticus This is a spring flowering species in my folders! But that picture just taken two days ago! 
That confusing me.
I am sure there is somebody who can tell me a hint about for this picture?

[Thomas Huber]

Yes, Ibrahim, reticulatus ssp hittiticus is a spring flowering species. But it flowers up to 1400m according to Mathew's crocus bible
where it probably is covered with snow each season. In Istanbul where no snow cover is found it's possible to get a very
early flowering like illustrated in your photo.
In the last years I always had spring species (imperati, korolkowii, michelsonii, biflorus) that have flowered for me in December
and even in November after a strange weather period.