Fall Blooming Crocus
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:26:35 PST)

Dear All,

We get email to our list all the time from people who are not members and
are responding to our archives. Arnold and I attempt to answer these as we
can, usually encouraging people to join the list and ask their question
directly, but occasionally forwarding the message on if we can figure out
who they were trying to contact. And of course we just get rid of the spam
without responding. This fall a woman wrote with a Crocus identification
question. I encouraged her to join our group knowing we had some really
knowledgeable people who could help her and gave her the url for Tony
Goode's site, but I never heard back. She was especially unhappy because
she said most web sites including our wiki did not mention if the leaves
came up before, after, or with the leaves and when the plants bloomed. She
thought that would help her in figuring out what she had. Having spent some
time looking at Tony's site I know it's a bit more complicated than that,
but I thought she had a valid point.

I looked at the wiki and indeed she was right. There was not a lot of text
information about the plants, although a few species were well described. I
have attempted to add what I could consulting Tony's site and Mathew's The
Smaller Bulbs since it has quite a lot of detailed information about
Crocus. Some of you who know more than I do may want to check it for
accuracy and change it as needed. After I did that the wiki page was really
long so I pulled out the ones that bloom in the fall.

I recently added two more pictures of Crocus niveus which is a gorgeous
thing with HUGE (for a Crocus it seems) white flowers. I've really been
enjoying it thanks to the NARGS seed exchange. I moved it out of the rain
the last couple of days and am hoping for some sunshine tomorrow.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Mary Sue