Crocus March 2009

[tonyg]

Simply Magnificent!

[ian mcenery]

Lovely selection Franz. Did the bees do it by themselves or did you help nature a little yourself?

[Lvandelft]

Franz, you might make a Crocus breeder very jealous with your "just seedlings"

Nr. 7 is surely one of the best!

[Arda Takan]

At long last
my first crocuses.



edit: too big size

[hadacekf]

Ian,
The bees do it!

[Paddy Tobin]

Juat to prove that Franz, Thomas et alia have had a good influence on my garden I am posting a photograph taken a few weeks back of crocus in the grass in my garden. I planted these last autumn and also planted another group of a paler blue colour which were finished flowering when this photograph was taken.

I am hopeful that I can continue to add to these planting each year to produce an area of naturalised bulbs and  might someday have a nice bulb lawn like Franz and Thomas.

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

Found a photograph of the earlier flowering crocus.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

For Arda

[David Nicholson]

Ah! that's better I was getting a very stiff neck.

[Arda Takan]

Sorry about that, apparently mine was enormous.

[hadacekf]

Paddy, the beginning is super.

[David Shaw]

Keep going, Paddy, the lawn looks good now and will only improve with more plantings.

[Paddy Tobin]

Franz and David,

Many thanks for your complients on  my beginnings Yes, I will add more bulbs to this patch this year, some of the common snowdrops in a few weeks time and more crocus in the autumn at least.

It's a nice effect in the garden and I'm sorry I didn't do it long ago ... but then I hadn't seen the lovely examples posted on this forum at that stage.

Paddy

[udo]

few from my last crocus for this spring,
Crocus corsicus, larger form Mt.Cinto
   ''      cvijicii, yellow and creme form
   ''      `Spring Beauty`, real a minimus hort. with virus
           no chance for this, all plants no more alive

[Paul T]

My Crocus sieberi

Franz,

These sieberi are absolutely amazing!!  The first and second ones are just to die for, particularly the second with it's picotee edging.  Would love to have "self seedlings" like that in my garden.    I was mortified to discover just recently that my favourite sieberi 'Hubert Edelsten' had gone to the great Crocus garden in the sky.  C. siberi is just such an amzing species isn't it?  So much variability evidenced by the various pictures here on the forums over the years.  Thanks so much for adding your wonderful selection of seedlings!

I've only caught up with a few pages of this topic as yet..... there's 26 pages just for this month alone!!    Great stuff everyone.