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a very early start in the new Crocus season:Crocus scharojanii from western Caucasus
author=Janis Ruksans With me blooms a pair of spring crocuses. Secret is that I got them this spring from "down under" - Australia. Autumnals finished shortly before and now are in leaves.Janis
Quoteauthor=Janis Ruksans With me blooms a pair of spring crocuses. Secret is that I got them this spring from "down under" - Australia. Autumnals finished shortly before and now are in leaves.Janis Janis , what a coincidence , I have the same 2 Crocus in flower in my garden today as you have in your Northern Hemisphere one. Brian Mathew sent me the C. minimus albus some 30 years ago , it has done well here and I have been able to spread it amongst other keen Crocus growers - one of the joys of gardening . Otto.
Beautiful Crocus scharojanii. I've not seen this before I think. The seedlings I grew as that were something else>
I can see we are in danger of getting thoroughly confused very soon, with autumn crocuses in the north, winter/spring crocuses in the south and species which have travelled from one hemisphere to the other flowering in both places at the same time