Crocus February - 2009

[ashley]

Thanks Gerry

Your biflorus ssp alexandrii is a beauty Tony; not as dark as the form I have.  Is it from wild-collected seed?

[mark smyth]

Some Crocus from today

Is this Crocus chrysanthus '?' bought as C. sieberi at Wisley?
imperati
sieberi 'Michael Hoog's Memory'
sieberi 'Ronald Ginns' - shown last year for the first. The form is prolific

[Diane Clement]

Is your sky that blue, Mark or is it a backdrop?

[Graeme Strachan]

Hello - I'm new to the Forum

Mark - Great photos where did you get the blue sky from?

Here in Aberdeen we had snow again today and my first crocus of the year has poked through - Sieberi albus.

regards

Graeme Strachan

[Maggi Young]

Welcome to the Forum, Graeme!!
What a good Crocus photo to start with .... the white and golden against the snow is lovely 
I hope all this snow is gone before the Bus Trip to Dunblane though, eh??! 

[Graeme Strachan]

Thank you Maggi,
                        I hope I'll be up in time for the 7.30am start on Saturday after going to a Royal Horticultural Society of Aberdeen fundraiser on Friday!!!

             Graeme

[mark smyth]

Diane, yes it's a background and yes it's the sky - looking north.

[Diane Clement]

Diane, yes it's a background and yes it's the sky - looking north. 

What's all the blue stuff then, our sky is white.   

[Maggi Young]

Thank you Maggi,
                        I hope I'll be up in time for the 7.30am start on Saturday after going to a Royal Horticultural Society of Aberdeen fundraiser on Friday!!!

             Graeme

Ah, yes, the Pub Quiz..... Ian  refuses to go, needing his beauty sleep.... and I just KNOW it'll be a fun evening!  

Details for anyone in the Aberdeen Area: " On Friday 20th February there will be a ‘pub quiz’ on the theme of gardening and general knowledge at the Cloverleaf Hotel, Bucksburn.  

 We hope that local gardening clubs and similar organisations will send teams to compete for a modest trophy (to be held for one year), and can guarantee a sociable and entertaining evening.  Tickets are £5, including a finger buffet, and doors open at 7 pm, with the quiz starting at 7.30 pm.  The quiz-master will be the well-known Bruce Gilliland.

 Teams may have up to four members, amusing team-names are not obligatory, but could add to the fun.  Clubs are not restricted to one team - send as many as you wish."

 

[Graeme Strachan]

Maggi,
         Thanks for the "plug".
How many decades is Ian going to sleep for? (tongue in cheek)

              Graeme

[Maggi Young]

Maggi,
         Thanks for the "plug".
How many decades is Ian going to sleep for? (tongue in cheek)

              Graeme

Well, as you know, Ian is very beautiful and so needs rather more sleep on that account......    
He'll be tucking up cosy about next Tuesday, I should think 

[David Nicholson]

For the most part it was a sunny day today so took the chance to picture some Crocus.

The first two are of Crocus gargaricus ssp. gargaricus. These were quite small corms kindly sent to me by Tony Willis from his original collection in Goktepe, Turkey. Hope I recorded that spelling correctly Tony and thank you. I didn't really expect them to flower this year.

Next two are Crocus dalmaticus 'Petrovac Strain' from Dirk. Thank you Dirk.

Crocus minimus, these from Anne Wright, thank you Anne. Beautiful shading.

Crocus chrysanthus 'Blue Bird', these from Thomas. Thanks very much Thomas.

[David Nicholson]

..... and to complete the set:-

Crocus chrysanthus 'Ard Schenk' followed by Crocus angustifolius 'Bronze Form'. Although this is fairly common I love the external shading.

[Tony Willis]

Thanks Gerry

Your biflorus ssp alexandrii is a beauty Tony; not as dark as the form I have.  Is it from wild-collected seed?

Ashley

yes it is wild collected seed from Mt Falackro in Northern Greece where I understand it grows in thousands.Of course  I did not see it in flower and in fact most of the seed I collected turned out to be Crocus chrysanthus which must grow with it.

[Tony Willis]

David I must have been feeling generous,the spelling is Goktepe,my awful writing must have been unreadable