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Crocus

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Cali

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #15 on: October 03, 2011, 07:43:56 PM »
C. Boryi is quite common here in Corfu. Usually blooming by mid October.
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Michael j Campbell

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2011, 08:42:33 PM »
A few today.

Crocus boryi in the morning
Crocus boryi in the afternoon
Crocus goulimyi
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Michael j Campbell

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2011, 09:29:06 PM »
Crocus cambessedesii
Crocus medius
Crocus cancellatus damaescenus
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Alisdair

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #18 on: October 07, 2011, 07:20:03 AM »
Very nice, Michael, thanks for sharing them with us! (And helpful for people searching for identification...)
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Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society
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John

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2011, 09:40:02 AM »
Took this yesterday. Crocus tournefortii from seed collected on Monte Smith, Rhodes, Greece. With a feint scent this has the unusual character of not closing it's flowers once opened. On Crete some plants which I took to be obviously this species turned out to be hybrids with C. boryi and they did close their flowers at night. 
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John
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Michael j Campbell

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2011, 10:02:26 PM »
Crocus Laevigatus
Crocus Laevigatus fontenayi x 2
Crocus speciosus albus
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Alisdair

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #21 on: October 26, 2011, 07:26:28 AM »
Lovely soft colouring on that laevigatus fontenayi, Michael: thanks!
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Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society
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Michael j Campbell

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #22 on: October 27, 2011, 07:47:51 PM »
Crocus longiflorus
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Alisdair

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2011, 07:58:10 AM »
Nice, Michael - showing clearly the plant's relationship to the saffron crocus (apparently in Campania, Italy, people do collect the styles of C. longiflorus to use as saffron, as it contains much the same flavouring chemicals as C. sativus).
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Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society
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John

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2011, 09:39:48 AM »
Here's a Crocus sativus that I photographed this week.
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John
Horticulturist, photographer, author, garden designer and plant breeder; MGS member and RHS committee member. I garden at home in SW London and also at work in South London.
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Alisdair

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2011, 03:49:37 PM »
For Ori's photos of Crocus pallasii and C. hermoneus among other mouth-watering bulbs in bloom at the moment in Israel, after rains, click here.
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Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society

HansA

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2011, 10:13:24 PM »
Here also some Crocus are in flower.
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John

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2011, 04:25:34 PM »
Crocus suaveolens, taken yesterday.
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John
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Alisdair

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #28 on: December 22, 2011, 06:08:30 PM »
Lovely, John - and surely early, even for your relatively mild garden?
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Alisdair Aird
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John

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Re: Crocus
« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2011, 09:26:27 AM »
Hi Alisdair, this one is perhaps the last to flower as the other clones I have of this species flowered a few weeks ago!
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John
Horticulturist, photographer, author, garden designer and plant breeder; MGS member and RHS committee member. I garden at home in SW London and also at work in South London.
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