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Started by qahtan, February 21, 2011, 19:46:20

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February 21, 2011, 19:46:20 Last Edit: February 21, 2011, 19:49:03 by qahtan
Wow here it is 21 February, we had 4 inches of snow last night, and the temp yesterday was plus 10....minus 10 today...
but I do have Autumn crocus leaves up 2 inches....... Good eh!!!!! well I think so.......  qahtan


autumn crocuses in bloom from a previos year.....

qahtan

February 21, 2011, 19:46:20 Last Edit: February 21, 2011, 19:49:03 by qahtan

Flighty

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February 21, 2011, 20:18:59
They're lovely!
My white crocus have keeled over in the rain, the yellow ones eaten by the birds and I've just got one purple one!
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qahtan

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February 21, 2011, 20:29:54
But it is a lovely one just like that,, a nice deep purple.......

Later on  I hope to take a drive down to Niagara Falls, they have a wonderful display of spring flowers in the gardens there, and the lawns have hundreds of crocuses peppered all over   qahtan

Vinlander

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March 01, 2011, 17:12:16
So are they saffron crocuses?
With a microholding you always get too much or bugger-all. (I'm fed up calling it an allotment garden - it just encourages the tidy-police).

The simple/complex split is more & more important: Simple fertilisers Poor, complex ones Good. Simple (old) poisons predictable, others (new) the opposite.

qahtan

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March 01, 2011, 18:27:40
 it seems there are lots of crocus variaty's. but I did find this.  which our autumn crocus does well, not tons of blossoms but a showing, yet we can't seem to grow spring ones...

The spice saffron is obtained from the stigmas of Crocus sativus, an autumn/fall-blooming species.
  qahtan

calendula

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March 02, 2011, 12:58:25
Colchicum is the autumn crocus, Crocus sativa for saffron - best not to mix them up   :o
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