Crocus and companion plants in the garden February 2010

[TheOnionMan]

Thomas, you are totally POSSESSED!

Yes, I know - but I love to be 

Here some more from late spring:

It just gets better and better, doesn't it   I like the informal intermixing of plants, allowing then to "duke it out" and mingle together.  What rich purple Corydalis am I seeing?  I don't see many alliums, but perhaps it is early in the season in those photos.  How long to you hold back mowing the lawn, to allow some of the bulb foliage to die back?

[Thomas Huber]

Mark, mowing is not before the end of May. The Corydalis is popovii if you mean photo no. 17

You are right, there are not many Alliums, but meanwhile I found a thread of a totally possesed American allium guy,
who's photos forced me to get more alliums in future  

[TheOnionMan]

You are right, there are not many Alliums, but meanwhile I found a thread of a totally possesed American guy,
who's photos forced me to get more alliums in future 

Who might that be? 

In your spring bulb milieu, some of the familiar ones would look nice, yellow A. moly, white A. zebdanense, red-rose A. oreophilum.

[Thomas Huber]

I think somewhere in the chaos might be some A. moly, christophii,
careuleum plus one from Minorca and this one from the woods around Lago di Garda.
Perhaps you can give an ID?

[TheOnionMan]

I think somewhere in the chaos might be some A. moly, christophii,
careuleum plus one from Minorca and this one from the woods around Lago di Garda.
Perhaps you can give an ID?

Looks like Allium carinatum ssp. pulchellum (possibly forma lintoflorum  )

[Sinchets]

Tony, I as growing the following outside in Lincolnshire: Crocus biflorus in various ssp, sieberi in various ssp and aff sieberi, chrysanthus, cvijicii, etruscus, dalmaticus, flavus, gargaricus, kotschyanus, laevigatus, nudiflorus, olivieri, pulchellus, reticulatus, speciosus, x jessopiae and of course the various ssp of vernus. Some of these were in beds with other bulbs/ corms such as Allium, Bellevalia, Fritillaria, Hyacinthus orientalis (wild from), Anemone pavonina and coronaria, Ornithogalum reverchonii, Muscari muscarimi, Hyacinthella, Bongardia, Gymnospermium...  I wasn't growing to show so they weren't in pots. We had a bulb frame for Onco Iris and Leonticoides section Corydalis and any new, or one off, bulbs yet to be bulked up.

[Hristo]

Thomas, BRILLIANT, how great to see Crocus, Galanthus, Iris and others all running wild together with their 'toes' in the wet grass!!

[Sinchets]

It's a very happy looking Corydalis popovii, Thomas 

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks for the ID, Mark.

Really happy my popovii is, Simon. The corm is as large as my fist.
But unfortunately it never sets seed.

[mark smyth]

Brilliant Thomas! what are the smll white flowers in reply 2 photo 8? We have the same bulbs in our beds. My first Tulip is out T. polychroma I think.

[Sinchets]

No, I believe they are self sterile- we have had seed on ours but chris thinks it may have been with C.maracandica as the pollen parent- we have yet to see the seedlings flower  

[Maggi Young]

this thread was created from 'Crocus February 2010' thread-- now renamed 'Crocus in pots February 2010' -- to highlight  growing Crocus out of doors.

Some posts are repeated in th Crocus to Identify thread...... confused? You should be! 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Unwarscheinlich Thomas ! 
What a colourful display !  March - April and May must be fabulous !!
Is there anything left in the borders to bring some colour in the Summer ??

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks to Maggi for moving these posts to an extra thread.

Mark S, I think you mean Puschkinia libanotica Alba. These are seedlings which I have sown in 2005.

Mc Mark, do you have the Garda-Allium in your marvellous collection?

Luc, from June to September the number of plants is reduced dramaticly, but there are still some
left for my happiness. Mainly Campanula, Sempervivum and some cushion plants.

If you're interested I could post some summer photos or spring photos from the other rock gardens.

[Maggi Young]

If you're interested I could post some summer photos or spring photos from the other rock gardens.

I think that would be most interesting, Thomas, to show how the look of the areas change with the seasons