Crocus in pots February 2010

[Maggi Young]

I love Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri and wondered if you had a photo of it unopened as well?

 Here's one to be going on wwith, Robin...
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/300103/log.html

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Maggi, it's really beautiful....one for the future I hope 

Have just sown some Crocus kotschyanus seeds sent from Austria and at the moment they are at 5 degrees inside the front door area together with other wild seed - I was wondering whether to put them outside under the eaves with a domed cover - as yet I have no cold frame but I'm trying to think how I could construct something to stop the pots freezing - maybe polystyrene?

[Tony Willis]

Tony, you have a wonderful display of Crocuses in flower on your bench - all  so beautiful in their own way but I love Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri and wondered if you had a photo of it unopened as well?

Sorry to say no I have not got one but Maggi has put a link to a super example.If I use the phrase 'here today,gone tomorrow' thats applicable.A slug ate the flower last night after I had photgraphed it in the afternoon, but some more to come.

[Maggi Young]

Oh, no! Tony, what a pain.... you'd think, wouldn't you, that the cold winter would have killed off the bulk of the chomping pests.... not good to hear that is not the case and that your lovely flower has fallen victim. 

[tonyg]

Mark, your new Avatar would scare the horses!

And I should know
I am reminded of a young and sinister looking bit of Fry and Lawrie if you get my drift. 

[TheOnionMan]

Mark, your new Avatar would scare the horses!

And I should know
I am reminded of a young and sinister looking bit of Fry and Lawrie if you get my drift. 

As an American, not only do I learn about plants from a more global aspect here on SRGC, but culturally too... I had to google the expression "scare the horses" and "Fry and Laurie".  I became a fan of Hugh Laurie with the Blackadder series (one of my favs, a brilliant comedy). 

[Michael J Campbell]

Sunshine today =

Crocus bayyopiorum . (Thanks Ann.)
Crocus chrysanthus zenith
Crocus corsicus
Crocus fleischeri Gulek Pass
Crocus gargaricus subsp gargaricus
Crocus sieberi Ronald Ginns
Crocus sieberi Ronald Ginns 2
Crocus sieberi subsp sieberi Cretan Snow

[Michael J Campbell]

A few more.

Crocus sieberi subsp sublimis f.Tricolor
Crocus sieberi subsp sublimis f.Tricolor 2
Crocus tommasinianus CEH534
Crocus tommasinianus pictus
Crocus versicolour
Crocus versicolour picturatus
Crocus vitellinus

[Armin]

Michael,
you have a great collection. Especial like the shots of C. versicolor, Ronald Ginns and Tricolor.

[Michael J Campbell]

Thanks Armin,it was the first day that we have had enough sun to open the flowers,a lot of them were falling over without opening because of bad light and no sunshine.

[Armin]

Michael,
that's a pity. Buds of C. ancyrensis and C. imperati did the same in my meadow. Warm December forced early growth then followed by harsh frosts and snowfalls in January, then thaw period with rainfall last week and since yesterday again snowfalls with -9°C frost just now. 
The good thing is usually more then one flower emerge from a corm. Warm weather with sunshine will come sooner or later again and will please our eyes.

[Michael J Campbell]

Armin, it was -5C here last night and the same tonight, but we got wall to wall sunshine all day today and promised the same for tomorrow, so I suppose I can live with that. At least the flowers open by lunchtime.

[Tony Willis]

Michael lovely pictures nice to see of some fine plants. Super baytopiorum

[mark smyth]

versicolor has a lovely shape

[mark smyth]

Crocus tomm. Eric Smith - Thanks to Thomas

x leonidii Ego. Sorry for showing some again I'm blown away by the colour combination