Crocus October-2012

[daveyp1970]

Poul - I can guess who your supplier is & will be interested to hear how he responds. A response I have had more than once is " species are variable"!

Gerry i have had that very same quote

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis, you are right, they are not from you. All the bulbs I have got from you have been true to name and of very good quality not to mention that they are always send out in the beginning of August.
But until now I have been satisfied with the supplier of these 'mathewii' , so I think that it will most fair to contact him and tell about his unclean stock.

Exciting crocus you have found in Greece! I wish you all luck with further findings!

Poul

I got identical plants under name "oreocreticus"- from 10 plants only 3 were true. Although earlier I was very satisfied with that source, too. May be some mix made by mice?
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Today

On first 3 pictures - Crocus speciosus, next is goulimyi. Further can't identify.
Janis

[Alex]

I had the exact same response from the (likely) vendor of Poul's Crocus, when sent C. angustifolius instead of cvijicii a few years ago. When I received a Biarum tenuifolium instead of a B. ditschianum, on the other hand, I was told that this simply could not have happened. I guess I must have hallucinated it?

[Melvyn Jope]

Rather cold and overcast this afternoon so this pot of Crocus pulchellus from Macedonia Northern Greece was brought inside to watch it open up.

[Maggi Young]

Lovely images, Melvyn - puts me in mind of dancers in the 'corps de ballet'!

[Rimmer de Vries]

Crocus ochroleucus- first time flowering for me

[Rimmer de Vries]

Crocus capius
first time flowering for seed sown in 2009

[Rimmer de Vries]

Another  form of C. oreocreticus

[Gerry Webster]

Rather cold and overcast this afternoon so this pot of Crocus pulchellus from Macedonia Northern Greece was brought inside to watch it open up.

That's a very striking & unusual (?) colour Melvyn. I'm used to seeing C. pulchellus as lilac-blue. Is the photograph accurate?

[Melvyn Jope]

Very accurate to my eyes Gerry, I wonder how much the black background influences the way the colour is seen?   ...... by cameras or humans!

[Gerry Webster]

Very accurate to my eyes Gerry, I wonder how much the black background influences the way the colour is seen?   ...... by cameras or humans!

It must be the background. Compare these with Tony's plants from Mount Vertsikos - posted above -against a different background.

[pehe]

Janis, you are right, they are not from you. All the bulbs I have got from you have been true to name and of very good quality not to mention that they are always send out in the beginning of August.
But until now I have been satisfied with the supplier of these 'mathewii' , so I think that it will most fair to contact him and tell about his unclean stock.

Exciting crocus you have found in Greece! I wish you all luck with further findings!

Poul

The supplier has admitted that the colouring of these 'mathewii' isn't correct and that these seedlings should have been rogued out during last season. He has promised to send some replacements next year. That is an answer of a responsible supplier, and I will gladly buy bulbs from him again.

Poul

[Maggi Young]

Rimmer, in Michigan, thanks for sharing your lovely crocus with us. Great to see the range of Croconuts around the world!

[daveyp1970]

The supplier has admitted that the colouring of these 'mathewii' isn't correct and that these seedlings should have been rogued out during last season. He has promised to send some replacements next year. That is an answer of a responsible supplier, and I will gladly buy bulbs from him again.

Poul

Poul so is it still mathewii or another sp,if it is still mathewii why is it that because of us humans it needs pulling because it hasn't got the fashionable purple centre,also can i ask why is it all of a sudden purple centred forms of other sp are being found,were they always there but not considered noteworthy or is the purple center to all these sp hybridisation in progress?Not by growers but naturaly before i get my head chopped off for implying something.Have they all evolved from one sp which had a purple centre in the beginning and then genetically changed from there.
Sorry for all the questions.