Crocus March 2009

[Tony Willis]

my Crocus scardicus was bought from Pilous as one corm in 1996.

yes I have posted pictures of the parents and yes I have selfed the pelistericus in 2008 and the seeds are germinating at the moment.

I also got seed on the scardicus last year and there was a discussion as to whether it had crossed with my pelistericus. This was not possible because they were in flower at different times due to a watering error.These are also just germinating.

I have two sowings of the cross with scardicus as the seed parent but these have not flowered yet,hopefully some will next year.

Crocus pelistericus is not variable in the wild it is almost completely uniform

[Sinchets]

Not sure what to say then. Maybe the Crocus x gotenburgensis from Gotenburg BG were just flukes, or they represent the best of lots of crosses many of which looked like your results.

[Gerdk]

Here are some Crocus growing en masse at the Botanical Garden of Wuppertal - sorry for the bad quality of the pics (I took the wrong lens)

The last pic is from my garden and shows a nearly white C. tommasinianus

Gerd

[Onion]

Gerd what a dream, there you see a longlife work of a bulbgardener. And no time to see it with my own eyes 

[Lesley Cox]

Amazing plantings Gerd, like purple snow on the ground. Truly magnificent. I think you almost white tommie is beautiful too. Just enough other colour to give it a lift.

[annew]

A glorious sight, Gerd.

[tonyg]

The most amazing mass planting of crocus that I have seen!  Thanks for sharing with us all the pictures from Wuppertal BG.

[Anthony Darby]

Finally my Crocus cvijcii has opened in the bright lights of the kitchen.

[Tony Willis]

gerd those pictures are staggering.

Anthony a lovely plant

[Anthony Darby]

I'll try and take its pic in natural light tomorrow.

[Alex]

Hi Anthony,

Is that Cream of Creams from Janis? That's very interesting, he sent me one of these last year and when it came out yellow I assumed he'd mixed it up and relabelled as normal cvijicii! Perhaps I was too hasty! Is it just a rather paler yellow than usual?

BW,

Alex

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very interesting colour Anthony - quite special !

Three cheers for Wuppertal botanics Gerd ! 
What a view ! 
Thanks for sharing !

[Casalima]

Gerd, that crocus carpet is quite wonderful!!!
And your nearly white is lovely too 

Tausend Dank!!

[Gunilla]

Thanks for showing us, Gerd.  I have never seen anything like it. Amazing  .
A little warmer here today and all snow is gone. Maybe spring is on its way at last. 
A few pics from my garden
Crocus chrysanthus 'Moonlight' ?  (I'm not sure but that was the name on the label)
Crocus tommasinianus 'Pictus'

[Anthony Darby]

Ooh, I like 'Pictus'.