Rodger wrote >When you buy Crocus kotschyanus from >Dutch sources, you get a form that has small, badly distorted >flowers, whereas >a clean stock has flowers as big as good forms of C. chrysanthus. Named forms of Crocus kotschyanus are available from sources in the Netherlands that are healthy and large-flowered. One is called 'Reliant', and the other I acquired with only collectors' initials JRJK. I've been growing these for many years. They don't increase as fast as the commonly sold form (often misnamed "C. karduchorum," which is a different and rare species). I think 'Reliant' can also be had from Potterton's in the UK. Soon we'll start to see the fall-flowering crocuses, and a new crocus year will begin. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA