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Thomas Huber

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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #315 on: March 21, 2009, 09:14:28 AM »
Jim, please let me know, what you mean with the "Ladykiller/Prins Claus dilemma"!
I have a copy of the Plantsmen article, if you want...
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #316 on: March 21, 2009, 02:11:41 PM »
Quote from: Thomas Huber on March 21, 2009, 09:14:28 AM
Jim, please let me know, what you mean with the "Ladykiller/Prins Claus dilemma"!
I have a copy of the Plantsmen article, if you want...

Thomas, for many years I was uncertain about the distinction between 'Lady Killer' and 'Prins Claus'. The illustrations I often saw in catalogs did not always match the plants in my garden.  Now I think I have accurately names stock of each, but for a long time things were a muddle.

Please take a look at these and tell me what you think:




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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #317 on: March 21, 2009, 03:54:43 PM »
Quote from: Jim McKenney on March 21, 2009, 02:11:41 PM
Quote from: Thomas Huber on March 21, 2009, 09:14:28 AM
Jim, please let me know, what you mean with the "Ladykiller/Prins Claus dilemma"!
I have a copy of the Plantsmen article, if you want...

Thomas, for many years I was uncertain about the distinction between 'Lady Killer' and 'Prins Claus'. The illustrations I often saw in catalogs did not always match the plants in my garden.  Now I think I have accurately names stock of each, but for a long time things were a muddle.

Please take a look at these and tell me what you think:


Ladykiller looks true. Prins Claus is more to white side, if I remember correctly. I'm not taking pictures of Dutch cultivars. I have still few corms of Prins Claus but they are under deep Snow still. I hope they still are as just now I found that in my large tunnel with bulb beds rodents made me free from quite large stocks of 11 my tulip species hybrids. All they were eaten in spring side of winter as made even short stolones and in some shoots reached surface. Now left only white roots... No hole foundable more, so nowhere to put pink "present".
Just found old slide of Prins Claus - it has more rounded flower segments and yours picture is true, too.
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #318 on: March 21, 2009, 05:08:40 PM »
Can't withstand temptation to share joy about this beautiful natural hybrid between C. chrysanthus and C. biflorus subsp. isauricus.
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #319 on: March 21, 2009, 05:15:05 PM »
Good things should always be shared :)  Thanks!
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #320 on: March 21, 2009, 06:50:14 PM »
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I hope they still are as just now I found that in my large tunnel with bulb beds rodents made me free from quite large stocks of 11 my tulip species hybrids. All they were eaten in spring side of winter as made even short stolones and in some shoots reached surface. Now left only white roots... No hole foundable more, so nowhere to put pink "present".
Janis you have deepest condolences. I understand exactly how you feel. It is all made so much harder when there is still snow on the ground and the rodents can make secret passages. Our last resort has been building concrete bunkers lined with wire mesh. Luckily our only problems so far have been with voles which they say cannot climb as well as mice or rats.
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #321 on: March 21, 2009, 07:47:07 PM »
some new flowers today,

Cr. angustifolius 'Berlin Gold', unnatural large bulbs often with deformed leave
 `` biflorus ssp.biflorus, inside white and blue
 `` candidus 'Lune', a seedling from Cr.candidus var.subflavus ( Cr.candidus x olivieri )
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #322 on: March 21, 2009, 07:57:08 PM »
and more flowers,

Cr. vernus ssp.heuffelianus, several seedlings
 `` jessoppiae ( Cr.pestalozzae x ??? )
 `` versicolor from Dept.Var, France
 `` vernus 'Fantasy', a cross between vernus and tommasinianus
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #323 on: March 21, 2009, 08:08:43 PM »
A lovely collection of C. abantensis Janis. So much variation. I have just a blue but it is a good blue and I love it very much.
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #324 on: March 21, 2009, 08:13:50 PM »
The Coffee Brown and other retic irises are real stunners and, dare I say it, a welcome little break from crocuses. (OK it's the Crocus page so I'll go and hide in a corner with my head in a paper bag :-[)

All I have out here at present are the beginnings of C. kotschyanus and Colchicum autumnale as well as some other autumn-flowering things.
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #325 on: March 21, 2009, 08:20:08 PM »
Quote from: Janis Ruksans on March 21, 2009, 05:08:40 PM
Can't withstand temptation to share joy about this beautiful natural hybrid between C. chrysanthus and C. biflorus subsp. isauricus.
Janis

A truly lovely plant.  :P
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #326 on: March 21, 2009, 08:22:05 PM »
The hybrid C 'Fantasy' is fantastic! What a super row when ther flowers open. :)
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #327 on: March 21, 2009, 10:45:02 PM »
Superb crocus.... I'm in heaven!  8)
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #328 on: March 21, 2009, 10:49:12 PM »
Dirk - you grow these crocus very, very well.  A marvellous massed display :) :)
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Re: Crocus March 2009
« Reply #329 on: March 22, 2009, 11:23:04 AM »
many thanks,

here two forms from Crocus dalmaticus,
-the first is from Petrovac in Montenegro (sorry for the waste im background, it is from   my neighbour )
-a larger form, many years in cultivation
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