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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #285 on: February 27, 2009, 09:00:59 AM »
Here are some more from a week ago - the last time the sun shone while I was at home :(

Crocus reticulatus - good form
Crocus dalmaticus - 2 forms, one has larger flowers
Crocus vernus albiflorus - seed raised from Slovenia
Crocus vernus vernus - ex Paso di Faiallo (thanks Thomas)
Crocus pestalozzae - small but beautifullly formed
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #286 on: February 27, 2009, 09:09:51 AM »
Yesterday after a visit to the dentist I cycled up Earlham Road in Norwich to visit the Crocuses on the roadside and at the Cemetery.  Another cloudy day but still gave me a chance to check the increasing number of hybrids appearing.

Crocus biflorus / chrysanthus forms.  ? Cream Beauty; Zwanenburg Bronze; ? ? Thomas will correct me or add missing names!
Crocus biflorus/chrysanthus hybrids.
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #287 on: February 27, 2009, 09:12:48 AM »
Earlham Road crocuses

Hybrids between Crocus biflorus and Crocus chrysanthus forms planted about 10 years ago.
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #288 on: February 27, 2009, 09:20:31 AM »
Earlham Cemetery
Crocus tommasinianus forms
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #289 on: February 27, 2009, 09:23:46 AM »
Earlham Cemetery Crocus vernus forms and hybrids with Crocus tommasinianus
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #290 on: February 27, 2009, 09:46:19 AM »
Wonderful views and some very special forms Tony !!
Thanks for letting us enjoy them.  8)
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #291 on: February 27, 2009, 12:00:01 PM »
Tony,

Thanks for wonderful pictures! I don't take a special interest in spring crocus, except crocus vernus and its hybrids. So seeing such a nice variability of crocus vernus is quite pleasing!

Interesting to know that crocus season has started in your area. Crocus vernus even doens't show its tips under cold glass here in our region.
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #292 on: February 27, 2009, 12:26:53 PM »
Tony

Some of the hybrids at the roadside and roundabout have excellent commercial promise.

The cemetry is a picture
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #293 on: February 27, 2009, 01:14:51 PM »
Quote from: tonyg on February 27, 2009, 09:12:48 AM
Earlham Road crocuses

Hybrids between Crocus biflorus and Crocus chrysanthus forms planted about 10 years ago.

Absolutely gorgeous! Can only envy that something similar aren't between my hybrids!
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #294 on: February 27, 2009, 04:07:40 PM »
Quote from: tonyg on February 27, 2009, 09:00:59 AM
Here are some more from a week ago - the last time the sun shone while I was at home :(
Crocus vernus vernus - ex Paso di Faiallo (thanks Thomas)

Thanks for the photos, Tony. These Crocus from Faiallo are quite strange. I collected them
as C. medius, last spring I found flowers looking like C. etruscus, so I relabelled them to etruscus.
Last autumn one C. medius flowered which was separated by me, now you show me plants that
are clearly C. vernus - seems like I have to visit this mixed spot again!!

Wonderful chrysanthus/biflorus hybrids. From what I see on the photo the parents are Romance,
Zwanenburg Bronce and Goldilocks. Hope to find some new hybrids in my lawn this year!
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #295 on: February 27, 2009, 05:34:11 PM »
the crocus are coming to the end of the season which has been one of the best I can remember.Not too cold and enough sun to open them.a miracle.

Crocus sieberi ssp sublimis from Mt Parnassus

Crocus cvijicii

Crocus sieberi ssp sieberi from Crete
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #296 on: February 27, 2009, 05:56:55 PM »
Tony, is Earlham Gold Tip in cultivation now? ::)
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #297 on: February 27, 2009, 06:27:52 PM »
Tony I got a Crocus 'Floor Sweepings' that looks very like your sieberi.

sieberi Ronald Ginns in the sun today
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #298 on: February 27, 2009, 07:15:28 PM »
Thomas can you name this Crocus ?chrysanthus? A gardening friend bought c100 'Advance' last autumn from a local garden centre. Not one is 'Advance'.
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Re: Crocus February - 2009
« Reply #299 on: February 27, 2009, 07:46:12 PM »
Wonderful potful Mark !!

Stunning Sieberi sieberi Tony !  Marvelous !
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