Crocus March 2009

[Sinchets]

Could it be Crocus sieberi sieberi? Please  

[David Nicholson]

One of the final few to flower. Crocus malyi.

[Sinchets]

Meanwhile in a different part of the garden this Crocus opened up today - Crocus kosaninii anyone? Also a plant I grow as Crocus biflorus isauricus [?]and ones which I am pretty sure are Crocus sieberi 'George' and Crocus reticulatus x angustifolius 'Alionka'

[David Shaw]

In 2006 I was sent some seed of Crocus heuffelianus and the first ones are just putting on a flower. A darling white one and a blue with well defined markings on the inner petals. I notice that the blue flower has rather pointed tips to the petals whilst the white is more rounded.

[Tony Willis]

my first attempt at hybridisation the first flower of Crocus x goteburgensis sown July 05 with its parents Crocus pelistericus and the pollen parent Crocus scardicus. It is okay but scarcely different from scardicus,a little paler and slight purple marks to the tips of the petals

Crocus pelistericus
Crocus scardicus
Crocus x goteburgensis

[Sinchets]

Tony- don't be too disappointed - the contrast between tohepurple lower and yellow upper on the petals is lovely. Do you by any chance know if it is a self fertile hybrid? You could always work on back crossing it with C.pelistericus if it is.

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Tony, back cross it...both ways... the Gothenburg Boys have got some really interesting and beautiful colour forms from further generations of back crossing.  I quite like your baby...... though how anything could  hope tobeat the sheer glamour of pelistericus is beyond me!

Janis showed some of the F2 hybrids in the forum.........

[Gerry Webster]

 I quite like your baby...... though how anything could  hope to beat the sheer glamour of pelistericus is beyond me!

Beyond me too. If Marlene Dietrich had been a crocus she would have looked like this!

[Tony Willis]

I saw the f2's of Janis and thought they were beautiful.I will be doing the back cross.
These have scardicus as the pollen parent and I have lots of seedlings of the cross with pelistericus as the pollen parent but they will not flower this year.

[Michael J Campbell]

Michael, your Vernus graecus looks badly virused 
You better get rid of them - soon!!

Thanks Thomas, it is  already done. I didn't notice that until I was editing the pics,

[ian mcenery]

my first attempt at hybridisation the first flower of Crocus x goteburgensis sown July 05 with its parents Crocus pelistericus and the pollen parent Crocus scardicus. It is okay but scarcely different from scardicus,a little paler and slight purple marks to the tips of the petals

Crocus pelistericus
Crocus scardicus
Crocus x goteburgensis

Tony the pelistericus and scardicus are just superb 

[Lesley Cox]

Thomas, any sign of your CC. pelistericus and scardicus?

[Otto Fauser]

Tony,
  beautyful , rare and difficult C. pelistericus and scardicus are still missing in my
collection - a few seeds in due time would be greatly appreciated and given all my
 care.
 I once had a C. veluchensis ,almost as dark in colour as pelistericus.

[Thomas Huber]

Thomas, any sign of your CC. pelistericus and scardicus?

No, but the Iris are growing now. I would guess pelistericus and scardicus will be among
the last Crocus to flower in my garden, so it's not too late for them.

[Otto Fauser]

Tony & Simon,
 the blue form of Cr. pestalozzaehas been grown in Australia for at least 50 years,
I do not know if 'caeruleus' is a valid published name ,and it is a slightly larger flower
 than the white form I grow, which came to me in 1977. It was collectedin Camlica ,
Turkey , both colour forms are good garden plants.
  Simon , Thomas is correct: your Cr. kosaninii [04 march ] is a tommie .