Crocus March 2007

[mark smyth]

This, like Tony G, could be the last Crocus from me. They are going over fast and I didnt get the brush out once. Murphy says every day I work will be good and all days off it will rain

No source on this pot of white tommies recently found tucked away out of sight. Not quite white but much whiter than my other 'white'

[mark smyth]

Here are a few more to keep people happy. Tony just showed angustifolius bronze form. Here it is quite wide open on one of my sneaky 10 minute dashes home

I'm still looking for a positive ID for this bought as C. olivier

Is this Crocus vernus? Bought under the old name/syn neapolitanus

and for the time being - I have a report to write - a named vernus cultivar 'Polje' maybe ...

ps A while back I said I said my favourite Crocus are white ones. I'll take that back and add orange

[Maggi Young]

Mark, lovely pix. I think your tommie albus might be a Vernus.

[mark smyth]

nothing really surprises me anymore

[tonyg]

I had similar thoughts about Marks C tommasinianus albus.  Perhaps hybrid blood is the answer.  The crosses between vernus and tommasinianus do sometimes have 'stripes' of another colour in them / on the outer petals.

The C olivieri appears to have the characteristic wide leaves .... and not very many of them.

The C vernus is indeed C vernus from what we can see - shape, colour, flowering later than most.  The plant that I grow under that pseudonym (synonym) is very different.  See the post with 'vernus 22-92' in it.

The narrower petalled dark form is nice, similar to one I grow received as 'ex Montenegro'.  The name you give yours suggests similar origins perhaps?

[Guff]

Thomas, wow! Your sea of crocus sure is making some nice clumps. Do you dig and fill in any spots that lack? I see some singles in spots, or are those self sowed seedlings?

Pictures like yours and Franz make me want to start on mine this fall. I just might, but I fear I won't have enough, until Fall 08.

[mark smyth]

the white tommies are from Pottertons and the purple vernus is 'Krasno Polje'

[Anthony Darby]

You still not at work Mark?

[mark smyth]

At work, yes. Working, no. Sunny morning again

[Thomas Huber]

Some more impressions from this weeks crocus lawn:

[Thomas Huber]

It's vernus time now!
Generally I don't like these fat vernus-monsters, but there's one
really beautiful with the darkest colour I've ever seen on
any Crocus : "Negro Boy". First photo compares the colour with
the "dark" Tommi "Whitewell Purple"

The white one is a small, pure white seedling found in my lawn.
Hope it will remain that small next year:

[Luc Gilgemyn]

More great pictures Thomas !
Does this ball stay there until April ?

[Thomas Huber]

No Luc. The ball is used every day for Chris' football
skillfulness games between the crocus clumps 

Last post for today is a plant,  received as Crocus kosaninii
ex crocus group seed. But I think it's a form of sieberi. Any
suggestions which ssp?

The yellow one is from a Swedish nursery:
Crocus candidus subflavus "Little Tiger"
It's a selected seedling of candidus subflavus
which is in fact C. olivieri:

[tonyg]

HI Thomas!
The imposter sieberi looks to be the same pale shade as C rujanensis which originates from the same part of the world.  As you know some people think that C rujanensis is no more than a regional variant of C sieberi.

Your lawn is just superb - words are not enough!

[John Forrest]

Thomas, Wish I could swap my very yellow patchy lawn used by the pooch  for a toilet for your beautiful Crocus filled one.