Jim, How many C. kotschyanus are you looking for ? I have numerous clones here that flower very reliably and are quite variable, from very pale to quite dark, all with lovely veins. You can see some here: http://edgewoodgardens.net/Gallery/gallery.asp/… I don't have large numbers of any one clone though. All of the crocus images at my web site can be seen here (about 450 pictures): http://edgewoodgardens.net/Gallery/gallery.asp/… To follow up on earlier e-mails from Tony, Jim et al, the following is a list of crocus (species include ssp. and vars.) that do very well outdoors here: Sand beds, summer dry but uncovered year round - medius, niveus, cartwrightianus, goulimyi, tournefortii, boryi, cancellatus, speciosus, hadriaticus, longiflorus, serotinus, leitchlinii, chrysanthus, antalyensis, flavus, biflorus, laevigatus, korolkowii, pulchellus, cvijicii, baytopiorum, gargaricus ssp. gargaricus. Well drained edge of woodland beds (i.e damper and a bit more shade) - nudiflorus, banaticus, kotschyanus ssp. suworowianus, vallicola, gargaricus ssp. herbertii. In the US there is a paucity of crocus offered for sale, those that are tend to be clones bulked up and wholesaled by the Dutch. Apart from the kotschyanus we've already heard about there is nothing intrinsically wrong with these, indeed many are lovely, but bear in mind they were generally selected for vegetative increase. As most are clonal they also reproduce poorly, if at all when self-pollinated. In the wild crocus generally occur as isolated plants and reproduction is almost exclusively by seed. The best way to get a nice collection of crocus with intra-specific variation that sets seed regularly is to sow wild collected seed. This is offered infrequently by several sources, although none are usually available directly within the US. This past year Marcus Harvey in Tasmania offered some great collections, Jim Archibald offers good material in the UK, as does Mike Salmon (although both of these are more and more from garden plants sourced from theirs and other's original collections) , two Czech plantsmen offer seed (Jan Jilek and Vlastimil Pilous) and the Crocus Group is also a great source of wild collected seed. The mainstream societies also have some. I have a couple of hundred pots of crocus at various stages of maturity and many more collections in the garden - once you sow seed regularly there's many new species in flower each year. Crocus is one of those genera where flower color is often a very poor guide to identity and the variation you get from seed from a single wild population is astounding. Go for it ! J. Dr John T Lonsdale 407 Edgewood Drive, Exton, Pennsylvania 19341, USA Phone: 610 594 9232 Fax: 801 327 1266 Visit "Edgewood" - The Lonsdale Garden at http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/ Zone 6b