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I separated Alliums from America into own chapter - offered species are very good growers in pots and excellent show plants due compact, dwarf habit. Some are good growers in garden as well. Dry flower-balls in seed are good for small flower-arrangements. THIS YEAR AMERICAN ALLIUMS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN OFFER.
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In this chapter included majority of Allium species grown by me and they are very variable - from dwarf and excellent pot and rockery species up to 1.5 m tall "giants" for garden, cut flowers, flower arrangements and some even for cooking as well. As almost all Allium species - their dry seedpods are excellent in flower arrangements and can last in vase without water for years.
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Comparison of living plants showed that several different and well separable morphotypes were involved under name Allium akaka. True Allium akaka growth in historical Iranian province Gilan and are characterized by whitish or pinkish, ovate-elliptic, obtuse (but with plicate apex) tepals remaining straight also after anthesis, short filaments without coloured upper part makes just two beautifully ribbed and decorative, grey-green, oval leaves in a pair, which sit opposite each other more or less flat, close to the ground. From between these rises a short stem (very short in good light) topped by a large ball head, excellent in a pot as well as a sunny, well-drained spot outside - a raised alpine bed or bulb frame.
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Although something similar to Allium nevskianum both species are easy separable - after anthesis the tepals of A. alexeianum become stiff and prickly, and those of A. nevskianum remain soft becoming only crumbled. True A. alexeianum growth on central parts of Turkestan and Zaravshan mountain ranges and our stock was collected on very hard clay ground at Zaamin.
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A slender, up to 1 m tall species producing a dense umbel of small but very numerous purplish pink flowers. A long lasting flower display in early summer. From Antalya area in southern Turkey.
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An extraordinary species with a huge (up to 35 cm in diam.), lax flower head of greenish-white flowers on a 50 cm high stem, resembling fireworks exploding high in the sky. Good drainage is essential to book success with it.
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Flowers are creamy white stars in tightly clustered 7-10 cm large umbels and with deep ruby hearts. Altogether enchanting. Sweetly fragrant and highly attractive to butterflies and visitors of our garden. Very good chance to get healthy stock of this beauty of different style. Usual commercial stocks in most cases are virus infected, our stock is multiplied from seeds and so it is virus-free. Height around 50 cm. It comes from Israel.
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Unique Allium species from nude stone-chip hillsides in Kopet-Dag mountains along border between Iran and Turkmenistan. Although hillsides there are so sun baked that reach not-to-touch condition, it is surprisingly tolerant to our cool and wet summers and grow as well as in outside garden as under cover in pots. Seam that this species don't hybridize with other species as seedlings perfectly copy parent plants. It is dwarf, with long curved strap-like foliage. Belongs to my favorites since I collected it for the first time in 1982.
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This nice Turkish species originally was collected by Archibald, Seisums & Stevens in E Turkey - NW of Tunceli to Ovacik at 1000m altitude on openings among deciduous scrub on steep slopes. A relative of A. orientale and A. kharputense with 2 notably broad basal leaves. Hemisphaerical umbels of widely campanulate white flowers contrasted with black ovaries, usually with purple midveins on the segments, carried on sturdy, up to 20cm long stems
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A beautiful dwarf Allium species from Iran with a big, rounded umbel of large wide open star-like bright and shining reddish lilac-violet flowers formed by narrow pointed petals on a 10-15 cm tall stem between two broad elliptic leaves. One of the most spectacular Iranian alliums of this type.
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The dense flower umbels on c. 20 cm tall stalks are produced in early summer. They are packed with comparatively big, narrowly cup-shaped straw-coloured marked with purple-pink flowers, prominently veined bright purple both on mid-veins and the margins of segments. Lasts in condition a long time as the segments don’t shrivel after flowering. Exquisite. From arid serpentine mountains, so good drainage & alkaline compost are needed. Best in pots.
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Very large cup-shaped pink flowers in dense umbels make it distinctive and attractive. The offered form is only 30 cm in height. Its origin is from Mt. Olympus in Greece. An easy grower in pots and in garden.
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This Allium comes from Iran where it growth at altitudes over 2000 m and its nice flower head is carried on around 50 cm long (sometimes longer) stem. Although it something resembles A. jesdianum they are not close relatives. But both are good growers.
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I discovered this unusual Allium species growing wild on almost bare shaly slopes during my first trip to Iran. I immediately understood that it is new species, and really, only 2 years later it was published by Reinhard Fritsch. Its name means "Onion from white hills". Regardless of harsh conditions in the wild, it is good grower in my collection, having very unusually shaped leaves. On pictures you can see its leaves, flowers and how joyful I was finding it.
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Comparatively tall species (around 50 cm) with gracious up-looking cup-shaped light violet-purple flowers in dense, tight umbel. With aging the short flower stalks curve up further and elongate, giving an unusual appearance. Excellent for growing in garden (it is completely hardy) and for cut flowers - in blooming time and at seed-heads. Must be planted in full sun, providing good drainage and a dry summer rest. Good increaser.
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From Sari-Chilek mountains in Uzbekistan. Flowers unusually bright blue, violet-veined in tight umbels held on 40 cm tall stems. An excellent contender to the well-known A. caeruleum with its brusque colour and the delicate overall appearance. Excellent in pots but can be grown also in garden where it will need a very well-drained and sunny spot dry in summer. An alternative is to lift it after flowering and keep in bulb shed up to replanting in autumn.
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This very rare species in wild was found on Nemrut-dag in Malatya Province of Turkey (there are another one Nemrut-dag near Lake Van) where it is growing on stony clay slopes. It is up to 30-40 cm tall with dense semispherical flowerhead, covered with white, occasionally at base purple toned flowers. Nice and well growing addition to any allium collection.
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Abundantly blooming form of this allium growing wild in something moist spots, so, if you are planting it in pots, you must bring them out of greenhouse during summer hot. Excellent grower in garden but prefer something shaded spots, where can grow for years covering ground as snow for its bright white flowers - so abundant is its blooming. Not require replanting - can stay on place for years. Originally collected in Iran in moist depressions near streams on Elburz mountain slopes.
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Flowers large, narrowly cup-shaped, purplish violet on a 40-50 cm stem. Similar to A. cupuliferum, but the umbel is more compact and the shape of the leaves is different. The Fergana mnt. range. According to R. Fritsch, it in fact is neither A. winklerianum nor pseudowinklerianum. Most likely a new very nice species.
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Blooms in mid-summer making tight large umbels of white flowers on around 1 m long stem but spectacular from early spring due its fat, finger like leaves which can be used for "hot" salads and bulbs are used by natives for baking so it became very rare in nature. Excellent grower in garden and under cover in greenhouse.
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Large airy umbels of violet flowers on 80 cm stem. The centre of flower umbel (pedicels) light green or purple. Very well growing, beautiful form from Agalik valley near Samarkand, Seravschan mnt. range, Uzbekistan. Excellent cut flower both in blooming time and in seeds.
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One of the gems of my collection, which until identifying I nicknamed “The Little Blue-head Beauty”. A late summer flowering allium with small, dense light sky-blue flower heads on 40-50 cm tall stems. One of the latest summer flowering species in my collection. I know no one similar to it.
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Very spectacular dwarf Iranian allium from the same locality where I found later described Crocus gunae. Its main feature is dark purplish filaments (from which cames its name). Flowers in dense umbel between wide leaves, scape only 3-5 cm long. Very limited stock.
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Reddish-purple flowers in dense umbels held on 50 - 80 cm high slender stem. This very beautiful form was collected between Akseki and Manavgat in Turkey. Very easy to grow both - under cover and in garden requiring only good drainage.
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A very variable in flower colour Turko-Iranian relative of A. karataviense with very dense flower head between two wide, quite often longitudinally ribbed leaves. This is a dwarf species with a large flower head, but only 15 cm in height.
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Very rare species from the Darwas Mountains of southern Tajikistan but very well growing in garden. Needs well drained, fertile, sunny site, dry in the summer and easy in south-facing raised beds. A relative of A. giganteum and A. macleanii but much better than either, since the individual flowers are almost twice the size and of better and richer colour, being bright purplish-violet. Can grow up to 1 m tall, but usually shorter (0.6-0.8 m).
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Another member of my so named A. karataviense allies from Iran, which I grew up from Archibald seeds received under name A. haemanthoides. It has long and narrow perianth tepals in large globular umbel between 2 -3 leaves and on 15cm long scape. Flowers pale purplish toned.
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It is very variable species with flowers in all shades of blue, white and even pinkish. Distributed wild in Turkey, Balkans and replaced with A. apennina in very West of South Europe. Easy growable in any well drained spot, usable in sunny and partly shaded spots in the garden.
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This year we again offer some fully double varieties raised by our Estonian friend Taavi Tuulik, who found them in the wild on Hiiumaa Island after the Chernobyl's disaster. They all are nice, fully double and well separable one from another by the flower shape, blooming time and foliage. Some are offered for the first time and in general only by me. It is not easy to describe the shape of the flowers, but the pictures show you everything - and you can see that each variety is different by its doubling, the shape of the petals and flower etc., therefore the descriptions are short.
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Lavander, pinkish or almost white, 3-4 cm long, funnel-shaped flowers are arranged in a lax umbel of usually more than 15 flowers held on a 30-40 cm high stem. For a sunny place in a rock garden. This wild form is grown from seeds collected in Tehama Co. in California where it grows in sparse grassy meadows in heavy, clayey but gravely loam. I place this one between the best American bulbs.
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Large colonies of this beautiful violet-purple cluster-lily colour the grassy slopes of the Columbia River Gorge. The 3 cm large upward-facing flowers have a central ring of cream-coloured staminodes and stamens. The open umbels are on 15-20 cm long stems. In nature on heavy clay soils.
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Forms 10 cm umbels of large dark blue-violet, funnel-shaped flowers with ascending lobes. Similar to the ubiquitous Triteleia laxa, but on much shorter scapes. From the northern Sierra Nevada, California, where it grows in red fir forest on vernally moist gravely flats at 1700m. Easy in dry spots of garden, where it blooms at end of June - early July.
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A beautiful brodiaea with the flowers divided into short fat tubes and narrow, spreading lobes. The lavender-blue with waxy white staminodes, 2.5 cm large perianths are in small umbels on up to 20 cm long scapes. Very nice flower shape.
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A smaller brodiaea with the perianth divided into a short tapered tube and 6, long, spreading lobes. The lobes are dark blue-purple. The filament appendanges in combination with the broad staminodes produce a white crown that encloses the exserted anthers. The 6-10, 2.5 cm large flowers are presented in an open umbel on 15-20 cm long, slender scapes. In wild it is growing in a heavy clay in a serpentine grassland. Needs dry summer conditions.
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This species looks as diminutive version of B. elegans. Deep blue flowers with a whitish tube are composed in beautiful umbels on short stems. In the wild stem sometimes is completely in soil, but not so in cultivation, but it is dwarfest of Brodiaeas in my collection. Need vernally moist soil with good drainage and is excellent pot plant, easy also in garden. In wild it is growing on grassy slopes between pine/oak woodland, Santa Lucia Range, California.
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From gardeners standpoint all bulbous Corydalis can be divided into two large groups: woodlanders and steppelanders. Woodland species prefer peaty soil which never dries out completely and a light shade. They must be planted as soon as possible. If tubers look overdried, we recommend you to soak them in water for several hours before planting. Eastern woodlanders from Siberia, Far East, China are more susceptible to drying out than western woodlanders from Europe, Caucasus, Turkey . Corydalis solida cultivars belong to same group. Steppelanders or ‘bulb-belt’ species generally are sun-lovers and need dryer summer conditions . We harvest them annually and keep out of soil in a bulb shed.
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Flowers of such an original combination of white and brown that bears the nickname “coffee and cream corydalis”. A somewhat variable stock because grown from seeds collected in my garden, where stocks of various origins can hybridize.
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Flowers of a very delicate shape, light pinkish purple with a dark purple nose in quite loose but long spikes giving the plant a quiet charm. Easy in garden and even self-seeding. Collected near Oreanda in Crimea, Ukraine before Russian occupation.
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Pure albino of this species found by my Ukrainian friend Dima Zubov as single individual between thousands of traditionally coloured plants shortly before Crimea was occupied by Russia. He donated this treasure to me and I carefully multiplied it in my nursery but still stock is small and only few will be available.
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Sorry, all copies are sold!
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Six years passed since my monograph "The World of Crocuses" was published. During this time some new conclusions about growing tips came, some more features were used to separate species. And most important 31 new species of crocuses were recognized throughout all Crocus distribution area starting from Portugal and ending in Iran, inclusive the first true yellow late autumn blooming crocus hybrid. Of course several mistakes of main volume were corrected and additions to species descriptions added - colour pictures, distribution maps etc., etc. You can still order it. The price including postage costs is 40,- Eu from this summ 5,- Euro are donated to support Ukrainian army in their fight against fascists of XXI century - Russian putinists. You can order book writing to me also by e-mail: janis.bulb@hawk.lv
On front cover - Crocus marandicus, back cover - Crocus harpkeae.
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In this part you will find crocus species and cultivars blooming in autumn. On attached picture general view of our autumn crocus collection pictured 30th of September, 2017.
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This is a late autum blooming species found in stony places and low scrub across a wide area from western Syria (in the Aleppo region – hence the name) into Jordan, Lebanon and Israel,
It blooms from November and although flowers are quite small but they are borne in clusters of several to each corm. The flower colour is generally white, variably marked with a yellow in the throat below a divided orange style and yellow-orange anthers, sometimes with black in connective. On the exterior there is usually some purple striping, especially towards the tube. It needs dry and hot summer conditions, if left all the year round in greenhouse it blooms very abundantly
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This species of Crocus speciosus allie was discovered by me in Iran and named after the renowned plantsman Jim Archibald and his wife Jenny, who introduced many new plants from remote countries. Flowers very specially coloured - with 3 stripes along the back of outer flower segments. It is making leaves already in autumn, soon after blooming, but sufficiently hardy also in open garden.
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This is a beautiful autumn blooming crocus from C. speciosus group with very large flowers and creamy yellow to deep yellow throat and many branched stigma well over-topping anthers. One of the best "speciosus" from open fields in Armenia near Goris. I suppose that cvultivars labeled as "speciosus" mostly derived just from C. armeniensis.
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Quite a local species in the wild, limited to the oak-scrub region around Akseki in the western Taurus range, but it has proved to be one of the best of the saffron group in cultivation. Possible outside in a sunny, dry site and an easy, satisfying species under glass. Delicately veined, white to palest lilac flowers with showy, scarlet styles, generously produced in autumn,
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A somewhat variable in colour species, flowers soft violet with fantastically branched styles, the outer tepals are twice as long as the inner ones, that’s why among its synonym names one can find even “Crociris”. Multiplied from seeds gathered from OP plants originally collected at Mukachevo in W Ukraine, E Carpathian Mountains but not isolated from other stocks and occasionally some white one occurred between those seedlings. Prefers light shade and needs some watering in summer when long dry spells occur and I suppose that benefit from more acid soils as original stock was found in Fagus sylvatica forest, where soil usually is acid.
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Beautiful species from Crocus speciosus group with many-branched style hidden between anthers allowing its easy separation from the other species in this group. It raised my attention as being something special long before I published it as a distinct species. Crocus bolensis was found across the Lake Abant region of Northern Turkey in alpine turf and in woodland clearings. There is a noticeable “glow” in the throat caused by a lack of violet in the very centre of the flower, which helps to contrast the veining. The throat itself is white but sometimes a pale yellow colouration is present. Readily grown in well-drained loam-based soil and this does not need a hot, dry summer rest. Also good for pots. It blooms early in the autumn crocus season - days ahead of its nearest relatives.
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One of the brightest white crocuses with a very branched very bright orange style and large nicely rounded tepals. Rarely outside is light lilac striped ot slightly yellowish toned. I’m offering white forms with small deep orange throat, which originate from the Taygetos mnt. in Greece.
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The most elegant species from Crocus speciosus group with cool white throat and glistening white flower tube. With the first glance on it you will understand that it is something very special. Originally was found by Osman Erol, but due some error in our communication it was at first published by me as subsp. elegans of C. speciosus, later correcting name to C. elegans but according rules of International code, the priority has name given by Ingo Schneider (although I published it long before Schneider). The neck and basal rings of the corm’s tunic are very fragile and easily detached, hence description of Schneider regarding lack of these are not correct. Known, so far, from just a few localities in the Pisidian Taurus of southern Turkey, where it grows in clearings of Pine forest, over limestone at around 1,750m altitude. Easy in garden and in pots.
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This is one of the smallest flowered Crocus, a perfect miniature, its diminutive stature makes it ideal for an alpine house pot. This is autumn blooming species usually flowering here quite late - from November and continuing throughout December, occasionally some flower appears also in February-March. In last autumn it started blooming unusually early – at start of October and ended in November. Flowers are verry variable in colour – from white, striped dark on back through light bluish to purple and are nicely scented. In wild growing only on Majorca and Menorca Islands.
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Crocus cancellatus is another group of complicated taxonomy where under this name certainly hides several species. This one was originally collected in then peaceful Syria and regarded by me as tipical cancellatus. It is one of the most beautiful forms grown in my collection under common name "cancellatus". Something variable in colour, it always has white striped throat and large something rounded flowers. Still very limited stock.
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Excellent selection from Crocus cartwrightianus with pure white flowers, occasionally with dark stripes in throat.
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This is a population on Crete which Herbert named as Crocus cartwrightianus var. creticus. In overall appearance it is somewhat similar to C. oreocreticus, but the latter is a high mountainous plant never growing lower than 1000 m, whilst C. cartwrightianus on Crete is distributed around Khania at the western end of the island at altitudes not higher than 300 m. There are several morphological features separating them both, too, and Cretan population of C. cartwrightianus deserves a closer examination as it could belong to another not yet described species. According to E. A. Bowles, “…it flowers so freely in English gardens that it is very attractive on sunny slopes of a rock garden in October and November..."
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Uniquely coloured plant found on Naxos Island by my Ukrainian friend Dima Zubov. Incredibly beautiful addition to so called "yellowish" autumn blooming crocuses. Main advantage - its flowers don't close in night, so once opened show its beauty from the first day till end of blooming and contrary to other "yellowish" usually keeps its yellow shade almost up to last day of blooming. Very limited stock - only very few available.
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Crocus clusii belongs to a group of four closely related autumn-blooming species from the western corner of the genus range. B. Mathew regarded them as subspecies of C. serotinus, but morphologically they are sufficiently distinct to be considered as different species. C. clusii replaces C. serotinus to the north of the Lisbon area and in north-west and south-west Spain as far as Cádiz. Although the areas of both species overlap, they can be distinguished by the more finely netted tunics in C. clusii. It is also leafier and produces 4 to 7 leaves per corm.
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When in 2009 I saw this crocus for the first time in Turkey, my first opinion was that I found new locality for C. mathewii, far from its earlier recognized area. But checking corm tunics it turned that they looks as in C. cancellatus - coarsely reticulated. Minor branching of style and throat colour showed that it look intermediate between both. Two generations of seedlings without splitting of main features confirmed that really was found new Crocus species which I named by my good friend, Professor of Botany in Istanbul University Osman Erol who much worked on Crocus taxonomy as well as on other Turkish native plants. Very limited stock!
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This rare species comes from Gilan province in NW Iran. Flowers are medium sized, white, flushed lilac to light lilac and with slight violet veining. With age becomes darker. A close relative to Crocus autranii and both readily hybridizes although has a different chromosome numbers. Most surprisingly that hybrids are fertile, too, and in F-2 they split in plants strongly resembling C. gilanicus, resembling C. autranii and intermediates between both. Does not like drying out in summer.
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Very elegant lavender to pale lilac-blue flowers with a white throat and broadly ovate segments on a long flower tube from the Mani peninsula in the Peloponnesus, Greece. An excellent grower and a very beautiful autumn crocus.
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Pure white selection of Crocus goulimyi from Mani peninsula with creamy white flowers and something different form of flower.
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Sample of this generally white blooming species with lilac toned flowers and yellow or even something blackish shaded yellow throat collected wild on Peloponnese near Stemnitsa
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This population comes from Parnon Massif in Greece and for some time was regarded even as subsp. parnonicus. It has slightly lilac-shaded flower segments and a white throat. Differences are very subtle, maybe better to regard it only as colour form.
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This beautiful hybrid selected from open pollinated seeds of C. hadriaticus in my nursery is easy separable by its dark purple flower tube. Seems that it is sterile (I never got seeds from it) although I never tried to handpollinate it and it has very good increasing rate by corm splitting. I decided to name it after my very long time mountain travel partner from Czech Republic Jiri Bydgoscz.
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It is not easy to get hold of the true species, quite often under this name are offered various, superficially similar forms of C. suworowianus which sometimes do resemble C. hakkariensis by the shape of the flower segments. But any doubts disappear when the throat is checked for - in C. hakkariensis it is distinctly hairy but nude in its relatives. In cultivation C. hakkariensis requires hot and dry conditions during the summer. Very rare in cultivation. Offered plants were originally collected in Iran, at border with Hakkari Province of Turkey.
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Here I'm offering type gathering of this very unusual crocus allied to C. kotschyanus, but with very special shape of flowers and colour, what immediately allows to identify it. It always makes leaves during flowering and at end of blooming they reach around 5-9 cm in length. Regardless of this - it is hardy and didn't suffered in even snowless winter during almost 20 years of cultivation. Of course - it has different cytology, too, what clearly indicates that it is not C. kotschyanus. Very pretty and unusual!
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15.00 EUR
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This is the most westerly occurring representative from large C. speciosus group, growing wild in NW Greece. It has purplish striped cataphylls, similar cataphylls have only two other species from this group - most easterly growing C. zubovii and C. xantholaimos, growing midway between both its relatives.
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10.00 EUR
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Crocus hermoneus by flower is almost indistinguishable from C. cancellatus, sometimes the two grow in mixed populations, so for a correct identification it is necessary to check the corm tunics. In general its flower segments are narrower and more widely open in sun, when flower segments even can bend backwards. Really under this name are hidden several species which soon must be published (may be already are). Here is offered sample which will keep the name "hermoneus". Very limited stock.
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20.00 EUR
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60
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Crocus homerii is growing wild on Chios Island and is quite variable - flowers are from pure white to dark striped purple and its anthers are yellow or black - in almost any population you can find plants with both anther colours. My stock was collected in spring, so no special selection by flowers was made, and I didn't separate them during cultivation, so don't ask me for special colours and I can't guarantee that corms which you will receive will have black anthers - such were in average around 30 % of collected corms (~ 60% at locus classicus) and same proportion remain between their seedlings. Legend tells that blind ancient poet Homer (author of Odyssey and Iliad) was born on Chios, so this new species was named after him.
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15.00 EUR
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This species belongs to Crocus speciosus group but is easy separable by its white anthers and branched stigma which well overtops anthers. For long it was regarded as C. pulchellus (for its white anthers) although is easy distinguishable from the last. In wild it grows in Turkey in Europe and seems that in adjacent Bulgaria, too. Very limited stock!
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25.00 EUR
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It is in fact a diminutive form of Crocus speciosus, with small nicely veined and striped flowers, the main feature for separation is the stigmatic branches that end between tips of anthers and are less branched. That allows proving the correctness of the name. Often under this name are offered various hybrids or seedlings of the Crocus speciosus. Offered stock was collected at its "locus classicus" just before entry in Ilgaz Dag National Park, but outside it! It is one of the earliest bloomers between large "C. speciosus" group.
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7.00 EUR
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This selection from widespread in wild Crocus laevigatus has beautifully lilac toned flowers with dark purple back of flower segments. It has very strong, nice scent in sunny days filling all greenhouse.
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7.00 EUR
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This species is growing wild near border between France and Italy. It is better known under name C. medius and under this name it still is distributed by Dutch nurseries. Unfortunately all stocks (and such were many) which I got from there turned virus infected. Only not so long ago I finally got healthy plants originally collected in N Italy by German crocus enthusiast. Seedlings of those now I can offer to others. Seem that stocks offered by other nurseries really originate from Dutch growers, what explains their low price.
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15.00 EUR
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The flowers are starry, strong violet-purple with a lovely fragrance and a small deep orange throat in the centre surrounded by a diffused whitish zone. The throat colour is quite variable. Its fragrance fills the greenhouse and I list it among the best autumn-blooming crocuses.
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5.00 EUR
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Earlier known as subspecies of C. cancellatus this beautiful crocus now is regarded as separate species – so distinct from C. cancellatus it is. Flowers pure white with a contrasting deep yellow throat complemented with a deep orange-red finely divided red style that fills the centre of the flower like flickering flames.
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7.00 EUR
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This species is one of the most desirable newcomers of late blooming autumn crocuses with mostly glistening white flowers and a large methylene-violet throat, red entire stigma branches and yellow anthers. There is some variation in the amount of violet, in the shape of the flower segments and sometimes the flower segments are light violet. It grows well in pots but must be kept cooler in summer.
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10.00 EUR
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Although Crocus mazziaricus is a well-known and widely distributed species, its taxonomic status, or rather, just to which populations its specific epithet can be applied, is still debatable. Certainly, in such a large region several species might be hiding under the common name “C. mazziaricus”. Plants offered here originally were collected near Stemnitsa on Peloponnese, not very far from the locus classicus (Lefkada Island).
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5.00 EUR
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It is another sample of Crocus mazziaricus sensu lato from geographically very isolated populations on Naxos Island in Aegean Sea, Cyclades Island group. Long isolation, great distance allowed development of different citotype, although visually plants looks quite similar to other populations, I'm listing those between the best populations.
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10.00 EUR
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An autumn-blooming member of the large C. biflorus group from Greece earlier wrongly named as „C. crewei”. Flowers are white marked with small, deeply coloured, almost black, stripes on the outside, rarely stippled grey. The anthers are with a black connective, rarely entirely black, but sometimes yellow. A very distinct and attractive plant with a nice honey scent. This is one of the most attractive forms, originally collected by Brian Mathew already in 1980, when he worked on his monograph.
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8.00 EUR
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Quite unusual for late autumn blooming crocuses selection with golden shade in flowers and plain yellowish or striped dark over yellow outside of outer segments. The intensity of yellow depends from temperature and... unfortunately soon fades during blooming to almost white.
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10.00 EUR
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One of the best autumn blooming crocuses from Jordan hills. Flowers are large, variable - white with wide violet stripes inside, outside very variable - whitish or yellowish. Blooms late, here usually during December, but well set seeds. Never before offered and very limited stock.
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30.00 EUR
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Althought the name means ‘snow-white’, more often in trade are offered forms with slightly bluish flowers. The colour varies from white to light blue and it flowers in October and throughout November. One of the best autumn crocuses.
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5.00 EUR
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Strong, weather resistant ivory white flowers with a ring of golden spots in the throat, growing wild in Lebanon and Israel. I'm offering very abundantly flowering form originally collected in Israel on Golan heights and blooming here in October. It likes full sun and good drainage, although here it better feels if grown in pots of alpine house where it flowers and increases well, making a lot of cormlets. One of the best stocks, far better than usually commercially offered.
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10.00 EUR
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This is a very nice crocus, blooming with moderately large flowers that are carried on comparatively long tubes. Quite often the outer segments open wider than the inner ones. It is a good grower in the greenhouse, well multiplies by corm splitting and sets seed readily, although hand pollination is essential for two reasons – firstly, the species blooms here late when natural pollinators for the most part are absent, and secondly, in milder climates it easily hybridises with other species. Not difficult but must be kept somewhat cooler in summer than its relatives.
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9.00 EUR
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This is typical, true Crocus pallasii and comes from its locus classicus in Crimea, now occupied by Russia. I succeed to collect this crocus really in the last moment before Russia occupied peninsula. C. pallasii was described just from Crimea, so my plants belong to true, typical species. Flowers are mostly lilac of various shades, rarely white, the throat usually whitish with deep purple stripes. Stigma trilobed, deep red levelling with the anthers. Flower segments in the Crimean plants are generally broader than in those from Turkey, which most likely belongs to another species.
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10.00 EUR
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Originally it was collected out of flowers between ruins of ancient Ariasos North of Antalya and when bloomed in my collection, turned extremely variable - some individuals resembled Crocus assumaniae, growing far to the East, few had colour and stigma as in C. kofudagensis (growing far to the West), but most of them resembled some of Turkish crocuses at present regarded as C. pallasii aff. Revisiting of site at blooming time confirmed huge variability of this population. Is it the place where met all those species or something else - I don't know. At least species status for both - kofudagensis and assumaniae were confirmed by DNA. Offered plants are excellent selection made by my Czech friend Vaclav from plants collected by us inside ruins of Roman city Ariasos with dark bright violet flowers. Could be different species, usually regarded as "pallasii" but true pallasii is not growing in this region. So correct name for this one still is unclear, but it is good grower in open garden as well as in pots regardless of applied name.
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10.00 EUR
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Although in general Crocus pallasii is regarded/mentioned in local floras starting from Ukraine through Greece, Turkey and further ro South and East up to Israel and Jordan, true pallasii is growing wild only in Crimea (locus classicus) and in Northern Balkans. Plants growing in Turkey etc. certainly belongs to one or more different species still waiting for their description. The same relates to crocus growing and regarded as pallasii in Israel. Offered planrts were collected near En-Zivan at 920 m altitude, but same were collected also on Mt. Hermon, only at higher altitudes up to 1500 m
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20.00 EUR
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A beautiful autumn-flowering species with slender light lilac-blue flowers nicely lightly marked with parallel violet stripes. In the centre bright yellow anthers and a bright red stigma. My stock comes from near Labranda in SW Turkey where it grows in very stony clay ground. By other travelers it is reported as the best "pallasii" ever seen. Unfortunately its wild population is almost destroyed by repeated attacks of wild boars, that only few plants growing deep in minor rock splits too hard even for boars tooth, escaped this fate. I collected from those few seedpods from which was raised my stock. Certainly it needs own name as a new species. Very limited stock.
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15.00 EUR
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The famous bulb specialist Michael Hoog in an ordinary stock of C. pulchellus albus found a plant with very large flowers. “This is the largest, pure white form of this crocus I have ever seen” – he told me presenting a few corms of it. A very vigorous grower, too.
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7.00 EUR
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These are wild forms of this beautiful, mid-autumn blooming very hardy crocus from Chios Island (Greece) with nice rounded lilac-blue flowers with a bright yellow throat and white anthers. Tepals with a few darker stripes (veins). Seems that just Chios populations are the most attractive between 26 acquisitions of this species in my collection.
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4.00 EUR
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It is diminutive relative of C. laevigatus from Crete. Like all the species that enter winter with well-developed leaves, here it can be grown only under cover where it perfectly blooms usually starting from the end of October (although the earliest record is from 5th October, 2011) and finishing in December. C. pumilus is reported as sufficiently hardy, but here in our long and as a rule harsh winters it can suffer from frosts. It very well sets seed and multiplies by corm division.
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6.00 EUR
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This member of the large C. speciosus group has a very distinct genotype and grows quite isolated from others on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine (at this moment occupied by Russia). By flower it looks quite similar to the type speciosus but blooms generally much earlier. I some time ago had a stock that was already in bloom in the last days of July and start of August but it was destroyed by rodents. Flowers are very large.
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5.00 EUR
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Assumed to be an autumn-flowering mutation of C. atticus, it has retained the large size of lilac to white flowers and in most cases has a large dark yellow throat, which sometimes is pale or surrounded by a white border like in the well-known spring cv. ‘Tricolor’. There are two, geographically isolated populations of what was once thought to be all Crocus robertianus. it is possible that both represent two distinct although morphological similar species. Offered stock comes from southern population and was collected not far from Varnakovo Monastery. I only recently got material from the type locality of robertianus so further research will be applied.
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10.00 EUR
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Another member of large "speciosus" aliance. This species grow in the wild at low altitudes and due its deep yellow throat something resembles highland C. xantholaimos, but contrary to it has distinctly more branched stigma level with or slightly overtopping anthers. At present it is known only from two spots around Sakarya in NW Turkey. As it is typical for autumn species growing at low altitudes, it blooms later than its relatives from high altitudes. Very limited stock.
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12.00 EUR
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This sample was collected by myself in Spain. Taxonomy of Spanish autumn blooming crocuses still is very unclear and last publication from Harpke, Kerndorff & Pasche didn't bring much light in this due absence of key and some contradictory statements. According them true salzmannii is growing in Morocco, but I regard those as different species. In near future must be published new research on Spanish crocuses from local botanists (they checked 110 acquisitions of crocuses growing in Pyrenees and opposite side of Mediterranean), so it is possible that name could be changed later. Following plea of Harpke, I cancelled my research on those crocuses, so at present I could identify those samples only as C. salzmannii. Seem that all Spanish crocuses prefers acid substrate and those ones are not exception.
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10.00 EUR
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It is new yet undescribed species similar to Crocus veneris in Cyprus but growing only in Israel at very low altitudes not very far from sea. I'm still waiting for its publishing by Oron Peri & Gatersleben team (Harpke & HKEP) and, following their plea, I cancelled my work on this species. For me finding and publishing new species is only hobby, not a paid-job, so for me it is not so important. It grow well with me in pots, but I didn't try it in outside garden. Now it already has proper name and it will be visible on packet label when you will receive ordered corms.
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30.00 EUR
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In Iran Crocus speciosus like crocuses are growing along mountain ridges borderiong Caspian Sea and from there several crocus species belonging to this group were described, This one is late but abundantly blooming species nova from Crocus speciosus group growing wild on low altitudes. Pretty flowers, but due late blooming here better feels under cover in alpine house.
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15.00 EUR
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This is one of the first crocuses to start flowering after the summer rest. Similar to C. vallicola but without the conspicuous wispy tips of the perianth segments. Usually flowers are white, more or less lilac striped, especially in the throat, but between them can occur some lilac toned individuals. Corm lies on its side and needs dryer growing conditions.
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10.00 EUR
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The flower colour varies from light lilac to deep lilac with an invariably lighter or darker yellow throat that sometimes is orange or greenish yellow in the fairest forms. Needs dry and hot summers.
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10.00 EUR
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Large, widely opening soft lavender flowers with glistening white anthers and much-divided orange stigma. One of the only three autumn blooming crocus species that does not close its flowers in poor light or during cold weather, flowers stay open even at night. It is distributed on Greek Islands and each island’s population has something different from neighbours throat colour and shape but uniform in all populations growing on same island.
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6.00 EUR
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An excellent early autumn-flowering crocus with large creamy white flowers, segments have peculiar acuminate tips. Prefers peaty soil and does not like drying out in summer. From Artvin, NE Turkey. Excellent for garden and as well for pots..
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15.00 EUR
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A species endemic to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus where it is growing in scrub on stony or grassy places. It is flowering here in late Autumn (from November) and during early Winter when it makes its cheery, star-shaped flowers. Flowers are small to medium-sized, white with some purple veining or lining on outer petals. The throat is bright yellow. Sometimes anthers are lined blackish along connective. Very limited stock.
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8.00 EUR
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This beautiful crocus was originally described by B. Mathew in his Monograph as subspecies of C. speciosus but according to new approach to Crocus taxonomy now must be regarded as species. Stock was collected by me just on its locus classicus. Flowers are comparatively smaller with deep yellow throat and many-branched stigma hided deep between anthers. It is blooming very long time and sometimes here winter starts when still last flowers not wilted and they are going under snow.
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6.00 EUR
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This crocus species is the most easterly growing representative from C. speciosus group. It is easy separable from another Iranian species of same group - C. archibaldiorum by position of stigma and from most other relatives by usually purple striped upper cataphyll. Flowers are attractive, violet, beautifully veined in a darker shade of the same colour. All of the six, quite evenly-sized, petals are veined with pale yellow inner base, and are set around yellow anthers which in turn ring around an orange-yellow, trifid style which is further sub-divided just at its tips. The style usually exceeds the length of the anthers. The purple-striped upper cataphyll is not always that obvious and additionally, it does vary substantially according to the age of the flower.
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10.00 EUR
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Following is our current offer of crocus species and cultivars blooming in spring. On attached picture you can see our collection pictured in polytunnel at 1st of April but blooming of spring crocuses under cover here normally starts from first days of March. I normally open my beds from winter cover during last week of February and then some flowers already are out. We open our nursery for visitors from the first weekend of March and visitors are wellcome every day, of course - preferable at weekends. Entry is free but voluntary putting of some bill in donation box is welcome.
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A very beautiful large-flowering, extremely variable in colour population from Armenia, in any case far better than other forms offered under this name. It is the true adamii, different from usual commercial stocks, with large blue or violet, tinted or striped darker flowers.
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10.00 EUR
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Practically unknown in cultivation crocus earlier wrongly regarded as Turkish form of C. adamii up to finding that it has completely different genotype and belongs to new, unknown before species allied neither to biflorus or adamii, but closer to C. danfordiae sensu lato and some other typically Turkish crocus species. Very beautiful and variable in colour. I don't know any other offer of it before me. Very few!
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30.00 EUR
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A very rare spring-flowering species with light lilac flowers and a distinct white throat. Style divides into three bright orange-red branches. Has some resemblance with C. biflorus, but corm tunics are not annulate at the base.
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20.00 EUR
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This species belongs to my greatest favourites among spring-blooming crocuses. Flowers bright blue with a bright yellow inner base surrounded by radial white rays. An exceptional beauty from high mountains of NE Turkey. Very limited stock originally collected on Zigana Pass.
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15.00 EUR
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White flowers uniquely patterned with speckles and dots in silver to ash-grey on the exterior. On the inside the shining white contrasts with the bright yellow throat. Requires a well drained soil in full sun.
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15.00 EUR
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C. alexandri from the biflorus group is easily to identify because at present there are known only two species with a white throat. The other is C. weldenii, but its leaves have 1 or 2 prominent ribs in the lateral channels. In the garden C. alexandri is an easy grower and according to E. A. Bowles, they “make splendid garden plants, flowering rather late”. My plants comes from Mt. Falakro in Makedonia (Greece).
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15.00 EUR
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Early and the most free-flowering species from Turkey with numerous deep orange flowers, far better than the usually grown Dutch form of garden origin. When in Gatersleben Institute of Plant genetics were researched group of Crocus reticulata allies, they asked me for samples of related C. ancyrensis and I sent them representatives from all acquisitions collected under this name during my Turkish expeditions. Checking cytology of those samples, in Gatersleben Institute was discovered that under this name are hidden at least 5 genetically different species which superficially are quite similar by morphological features but growing in wild quite distantly and isolated one from other. Unfortunately they didn't go deeper and not continued this work. So I'm still growing them under common name Crocus ancyrensis only adding citotype numbers from I to V.
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"Cytotype I" originally was collected 30 km from Beypazari along road to Bolu, 2 km before Ahlatlik gec. at altitude of 1590 m. This cytotype is cross-able with Crocus abantensis and the hybrid was named by HKEP as Crocus x paulineae.
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8.00 EUR
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Flowers rich Indian-yellow to orange with a deep lustrous purple striping and feathering on petal backs. Taller and more vigorous than the old Dutch forms of this species. From near Oreanda (Krestovaja Gora), Crimea (R-8306) originally collected by me already in 1983.
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5.00 EUR
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This one belongs to one of the best species in the C. biflorus group. Flowers are lighter or darker blue with a bright orange throat, rarely with black anthers. As the name implies the dry seeds of this species are black.
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20.00 EUR
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A very abundantly blooming crocus from Greece forming large rounded lilac flowers with a deep yellow throat. Very tolerant to winter conditions here and a good grower even outside where it excellently increases. Stock was collected just near Athens, and has nothing common with stocks offered under this name by Dutch nurseries.
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6.00 EUR
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It has been known quite well and is being grown in several collections for some time already but then it was regarded as a white form of C. punctatus. When looking more closely the differences are easily seen. The anthers in C. punctatus always have black basal lobes, never seen in C. babadagensis, and anther tips in punctatus are never greyish-tinted.
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20.00 EUR
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C. balansae is easily recognizable and separable from its close relative C. olivieri by its much-branched style that is divided into 12 to 15 branches. During flowering it requires lots of water as in the wild it sometimes grows in spots that get flooded in early spring, but summers there are hot and dry. It is not commercial form but originating from Samos Island in E Aegean Sea, where it is growing together with C. seisumsiana and some autumn blooming crocuses.
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7.00 EUR
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This species is distributed within a large area in continental Italy from Verona southwards and in the northern part of Sicily where it grows in dry grassy places between shrubs or light pinewoods on limestone formations. In this form from surroundings of abandoned city Craco in S Italy flowers are generally lighter or darker lilac and they were collected on roadside slope near ploughed field..
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7.00 EUR
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C. bowlesianus is very colourful (especially the forms with black anthers) and it has proved to be a very good grower, regularly producing seed and increasing well by corm division. My stock is still quite small, so I tried it only in pots.
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20.00 EUR
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When I found this crocus on Bozdag Daģlari, I registered its gathering as new distant locality for C. thirkeanus (better known as C. herbertii), but in cultivation it turned so different, that was worth of proper name. It has even smaller corms, different pattern of corm tunic's reticulation and distinctly slender flower segments but the same stoloniferous habit. This group of crocuses was researched by Osman Erol (Turkey) and it was found that Crocus gargaricus from Gok Tepe (N of Mugla in SW Turkey) is different species and it got name C. cigdemiae. In same publication O. Erol put under doubt naming of C. bozdagensis as different from C. thirkeanus, but flower shape of both is so different that more deeper research on DNA level is needed to confirm Erol's opinion. All three species are offered here, so you can compare those pictures by yourself and make own opinion. In any case all are easy both in pots and in garden.
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20.00 EUR
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This nice tiny crocus is close relative to Crocus danfordiae sensu latissimo. In last time from this group were separated several distinct species having own distribution area not overlapping with others. C. brickellii is easy recognizable by length and position of stigmatic branches which well overtop tips of anthers whilst in its relatives they rarely slightly exceeds middle of anthers. I named it after my first correspondent from UK - my great friend, famous botanist, garden book author Chris Brickell.
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25.00 EUR
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Working on crocus gatherings up to last grown under name of "Crocus danfordiae" I found that under this name are hidden several species. HKEP already separated from this group Crocus minutus having white stigma. Another distantly growing group with white stigma has different leaf morphology. Large distance between areas designed for C. minutus by HKEP and crocuses found by me and botanists from Gothenburg BG (J. Persson) supported opinion that it is new species which I named after mine very long-time travel partner, chief gardener of Pardubice (Czech Republic) Jiri Bydzowsky, True C. danfordiae from East part of Turkey genetically are not even related to species earlier grown under this name but distributed to West from Anatolian Diagonal where are growimng C. bydzowskyanus, christianii and minutus,
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20.00 EUR
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C. caelestis is nice blue flowering crocus which near Uşak grows together with C. uschakensis in mixed populations but no hybrids have been observed there. I grow Crocus caelestis only in pots because my sdtock still is small but in its native habitat summers are very hot and dry, therefore the pots stay in the greenhouse all the time. But I suppose that it could be growable outside as well as its neighbour C. uschakensis. It well sets seed and increases by splitting. I have two stocks of it - type gathering I got from Erich Pasche, and later another sample was collected for me by my Turkish correspondent Ibrahim Sozen. Both are practically identical.
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25.00 EUR
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The most unusual feature of Crocus candidus in the wild is the production of only one wide leaf per corm even in flowering individuals. In cultivation numberr of leaves increase. Its flowers are almost invariably white. The intraspecific variability is expressed on the flower segment exteriors in the form of speckling or striping of differing intensity. Very limited stock.
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This is one of the most beautiful spring blooming crocuses, known only from few points in SW Turkey. Unfortunately the main locality from where comes offered plants where it was growing together with autumn blooming C. nerimaniae now is reported as completely destroyed by wild boars and logging of forest. The amount of black in flowers throat varies by intensity and shade.
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35.00 EUR
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This species was for the first time found in 2018 but officially published only in 2022 when more detailed researches were done in region W of Lake Urmiye in Iran. Its name is derived from the Kurdish (Kurmanji) word ‘çîya’ (‘chiai’) meaning ‘a mountain’, ‘mountainous’ as it is growing at altitudes over 2000 m together with many other bulbous plants - at least 9 different bulbous species were observed on the same spot.
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Starting deeper observing of Crocus danfordiae group, I found that Anatolian diagonal divides all populations earlier regarded as C. danfordiae into two morphologically and genetically very different groups. Populations distributed in East direction from Anatolian diagonal belongs to typical C. danfordiae sensu G. Maw, who described this crocus. Those growing to West from this line deserves own name. Few already were published (C. minutus by HKEP, C. brickellii by me). Colour of stigma allowed to separate C. bydzowskyanus, but others I decided to name after Paul Christian who is supplying plant enthusiasts with many unusual and rare bulbs and other plants.Type gathering of Crocus christianii was collected at NE side of Beyshekir Lake and has yellow flowers, but there are many populations where yellow and white flowering plants are growing side by side but in some populations only white blooming plants exist. In this entry are proposed just white blooming representatives of C. christianii.
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Earlier was supposed that Crocus chrysanthus belongs to species with one of the widest distribution area which starts in Balkans (where is locus classicus for it) and stretches almost to East of Turkey - all with annulate corm tunics and basically yellow flower colour. Really true C. chrysanthus is growing only in Balkans (and even there most likely it is represented by several different species). Turkish populations represent several other species. I was very surprised when found that A. Guner in his "Illustrated Flora of Turkey" (not yet published) merged all Turkish "C. chrysanthus sensu latissimo" as one species regardless of significant differences between them. Now those crocuses are under researches performed by Balkan botanists and other botanists from Turkey. Knowing this I stopped my observations on them for not to destroy their job. I'm only amateur and for me it is not so important. Below I'm offering several acquisitions still regarded as C. chrysanthus sensu lato, but morphologically sufficiently different. Note the position of stigma which in typical chrysanthus from Europe mostly well surpasses anthers or less often is level with their tips. Those from Turkey grown under this name belongs to several other species and in general their stigmas ends below tips of anthers.
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On Falakro mountain in Greece are growing at least 3 beautiful crocuses - Crocus orphei, Crocus alexandrii and some of Crocus chrysanthus group - so different by some features from other Greek "chrysanthus" that could be worth of own name, but this still need more deep research on more material.
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This one comes from Turkey, is very good grower and abundant bloomer. Many individuals has brown striped or suffused outside but they are not selected and separated by me. Of course, really it is not C. chrysanthus (growing wild only in Balkans) and need proper name. Better to label it as Crocus cf. chrysanthus, Gevne Beli, Turkey.
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Together with C. thirkeanus and C. bozdagensis it is crocus with the brightest yellow even something orange-yellow flowers, but contrary to its relatives it makes something larger corms (they still are small) with different tunics and isn’t stoloniferous. The stock grown at present in cultivation under name "gargaricus" came from SW Turkey, Gok Tepe, N of Muģla and was originally collected by Jim Archibald. As I predicted - in 2024 it received proper name. True C. gargaricus from NW Turkey, Mt. Kaz Dağı, seem not to be in cultivation at all. This research was performed by Turkish botanist Osman Erol and in Gatersleben Institute (Germany). If some of you have true C. gargaricus from Kazdag - would be happy to buy/swap it with you!
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The most variable population of this beautiful crocus which is growing wild together with C. gembosii (yellow blooming species of C. chrysanthus allie) and, what is quite unusual - freely hybridize with it and progeny is fertile. So I can't exclude that between offered plants will be some with hidden genes of C. gembosii in its genome. Anthers not rarely has grayish or even blackish connective. It is one of parents for my most beautiful hybrids.
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Very attractive species, recognisable from first look by its very vivid bright lilac inside and striped outside flowers with red stigma. Our stock raised from 2 seedlings grown from 5 seeds received from its homeland – Island of Corsica. We offer third generation from this original introduction.
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Most stocks in the trade offered as C. crewei with the true species share only the black anthers and as a rule are autumn blooming C. melantherus. Some other species from W Turkey with black in anthers sometimes are offered under this name, too. Plants offered here by me are true species, some corms of which were collected in Denizli Province (TULA-011) and later carefully multiplied, but still the stock is very limited.
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This one stock was collected just near its locus classicus and it is quite different from Greek populations grown under this name. True C. cvijicii has flowers from almost white to pale yellow colour, sometimes looking intermediate between C. jablanicensis and Greek forms of C. cvijicii, what now has name C. gramensis. Don't like summer hot, so I recommend pots with C. cvijicii bring out of greenhouse during summer spells. Good grower also in open garden.
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This tiny species from Cyprus belongs to my favourites for its large bright reddish orange throat and blackish purple “tongue” over the outer base of the deep violet-blue flower segments. A small plant and naturally very small corms, but regardless of size - blooms very abundantly. Not very hardy, therefore protection during winter spells is very recommended. Here I grow it only in pots, in greenhouse.
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In general C. dalmaticus is fairly similar to some forms of C. atticus, only the backs of its outer segments are paler, with a buff or silvery shading, and also its leaves are narrower. The style in C. dalmaticus is fairly slender and deeply trilobed, whereas in C. atticus it has a frilly appearance. The true species is easy to grow both in the open garden and in the greenhouse. It increases fast by splitting and abundantly sets seed. It does not like too dry conditions in summer, so it is better to take the pots out of the greenhouse during the rest period.
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Crocus danfordiae is quite unique between crocuses - it is the single species where you can find individuals with white, yellow and blue coloured flowers what alone allows to suspect that there are hidden several different species. In addition - looking on distribution map in Flora of Turkey we can see 2 large separated regions - on each side of Anatolian Diagonal. In last years already several new species were separated from this complex. Here I'm offering few samples which are regarded as true Crocus danfordiae sensu its author George Maw.
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Flowers of this C. danfordiae stock are very tiny, with perianth segments only up to 2 cm long and in this stock they are light blue. Collected on Dokuzdolanbac gec. (on map Demirci gec.), at altitude of 1890 m a.s.l. Current researches found that only plants earlier regarded as C. danfordiae (sensu G. Maw) and growing to East from Anatolian Diagonal in Turkey really are true C. danfordiae, but those distributed to West from Anatolian Diagonal genetically are very distant from typical and true C. danfordiae.
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This stock was collected something South from Tokat in E Turkey - if other observed East populations are located quite closely, this one is something distant and has comparatively darker yellow flowers. Although morphologically it looks same as populations distributed more to South, due its geographical isolation at this moment I'm something reserved to regarded it as true C. danfordiae - so for it I attached epithet "affinitas" (what means: close to, abreviation aff.).
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Quite recently were checked DNA of a lot of crocus populations regarded by B. Mathew as Crocus reticulatus. This research found that under this name were joyned several species regarded by former botanists as different and several new were discovered, too. This one is one of those new "reticulatas" from Azov Steppe, now turned to mine fields separating Ukraina from its teritories in East (Doneck etc.) at present occupied by Russia. So there are no possibilities to get additional material. Only few small stocks are now in cultivation and mine stock is very limited, too.
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Very fine, pale rose-lilac segments inside, whilst the outside is cream. There can be indistinct, thin purple feathering on segments outside, more on the outer segments. Throat is yellow. Quite distinct from the normal forms in cultivation offered by Dutch nurseries and free of the virus that afflicts many of them. The stock comes from Island of Elba.
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Crocus fibroannulatus in flower is somewhat similar to C. artvinensis which occurs in the same area, but is easily separable by other features. It is quite unique among the so-called ”biflorus group” species for the parallel splitting of the corm tunics. By this aspect it in some extent resembles C. aerius, but contrary to the latter C. fibroannulatus always has quite distinct, albeit thin basal rings. It is growing at altitudes of 400-1000 m, known only from three disjunct locations near the Çoruh valley and is good grower in garden as well under cover.
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Chios forms in general are very similar to the Turkish plants but quite often has dark coloured stigmatic branches adding additional beauty. But my plants are not sorted by colour of stigma, so it is your luck to get the best ones.
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Close relative to C. adamii from Armenia but almost always with distinctly striped segments outside. Some botanists regard it as conspecific with the last, but Harpke, Kerndorff and Pasche found it sufficiently different to keep as true species. My stock is collected just at locus classicus on yaila overtopping Geghart monastery of which it is named.
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After finding that crocus got from 3 sources under name 'Sunspot' turned completely virus infected, before destroying of those I collected seeds hoping to keep its prominent black stigmas and crossed it with wild collected samples having black athers in hope to join both "blacks" in one flower. 'Magie Noire' is one of the seedlings from such cross with more prominent black stigma, but anthers still are yellow. Blooms very abundantly!
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Crocus gembosii in nature is growing side by side with C. concinnus on steep slope. Blooming of yellow C. gembosii follows just snow melting but lower by slope comes blue flowering C. concinnus. Between both is quite wide border-zone where plenty of hybrids between both species occur. Unusual is that those hybrids are fertile, so there side by side is growing various generations of all possible and even incredible colour combinations. I selected more than 100 beautiful hybrids, both from nature and my own seedlings, which now goes through testing and comparing. I'm offering here the first selected clones.
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This selection from Crocus gembosii and C. concinnus hybrids was named by my friend and longtime travel partner Vaclav Jošt from Czech Republic. We together researched Gembos Yaila looking for most unusual colour combinations made by Mother Nature.
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Excellent selection from Crocus gembosii x C. concinnus hybrids, with very rounded form of flowers of brightest deep yellow colour and dark "tongue" on segments outside base. Excellent increaser and abundant bloomer as well as in garden and in pot, certainly show-winner in its class for pot grown bulbs.
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This is the first selection from natural hybrids between those two species - the best increaser by splitting, It got number 17-2-ex-ex. Stock very limited.
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In this hybrid between yelow Crocus gembosii and blue C. concinnus dominate features of pollen parent - flowers are bright lilac-blue and only otside is yellow shaded with very prominent dark purple stripes, flower throat is of so deep yellow shade that looks almost orange. Excellent increaser and abundant bloomer. Good for pots and garden.
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Flowers of Crocus gramensios are very large brightest yellow, even with an orange tint, very rarely nicely creamy, sweetly scented. Still a great rarity, although not very difficult in the garden. Possibly better to grow without annual lifting. Blooms late. Earlier it was distributed under name C. cvijicii, but true cvijicii is growing only in North Macedonia. Plants growing in Greece soon must be published (not by me) as Crocus gramensis after type locality on Grammos Mountains but are growing also on Vermio Mountain ridge.
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Typical Crocus cvijicii under which name this crocus was distributed earlier has flowers of cold pale yellow to white shades and never is bright deep yellow as C. gramensis. Although between C. gramensis wild populations very rarely can be found creamy or even white individuals - such are not common - so appearing of this one between my seedlings was great surprise. Flowers of this cv. are light but very soft yellow of beautiful shade. It could be OP hybrid with C. cf. veluchensis Serbian form because something similar but not so perfect appear also between intentional crosses between both species.
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Although this species is named after “bad smell” of its flowers, I never sensed this and identified by leaf features which separate it from similar C. vitellinus. Flowers are deep yellow with a distinct “waist’ but in the sun opens widely. The inside is pure yellow, the outside very variable - from grey suffusion to dark purple stripes, each plant is different. In the wild it is growing in S Turkey. Needs a dry summer rest.
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One of three new species of spring blooming crocuses found by me during my first Iranian trip and named after my wife Guna. In nature its corms are situated very deep in soil which at blooming time is extremely wet (over-flooded) but later becomes dry and hard.
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17.00 EUR
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Flowers purple with deep purple tips, variable, very large. Collected in E Carpathians (W Ukraine) on mountain pass Lizja and it perfectly naturalizes here in slightly shaded spots, even became as some kind of beautiful "weed" in former Janis' nursery where it was self-sowing in passes between crocus beds.
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I'm always collecting seeds from my famous C. heuffelianus cultivar 'Carpathian Wonder' and between seedlings appear a lot of marvellous plants, may be not so "explosive" as their seed parent, but very good growers and increasers. They are excellent for slightly shady spots in garden and good for growing in grass, but very good for pots as well. Only you must remember that this species don’t like too hot regime in summer, so prefer replacing of pots out of greenhouse after blooming and benefit from slightly more acid substrate.
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Seedling from Carpathian Wonder resulted into unpredictable colour - instead of white based bicoloured, came out one of the darkest purple forms. Excellent grower, tolerant to shade and producing seedlings even outside of bed where part of its stock was planted. Pots must be brought out of greenhouse when weather permits and prefer planting in more acid substrate.
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A close relative of C. reticulatus. Its species status recently was confirmed by DNA researches in Gatersleben Institute (Germany). Both are easy separable as C. hittiticus has black anthers. Flowers are lighter or darker lilac with more or less prominent dark stripes on the back of outer segments. Needs hot and dry summer and quite often blooming starts already in winter. Sometimes even at very end of November, so may be must be reclassified as autumn blooming species?
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Beautiful and easy in gardens species from Italy and as a rule very strikingly coloured. Flowers outside is pale lilac, whitish or buff with more or less conspicuous deep purple stripes, inside bright lilac-purple.
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This excellent Iranian crocus named after British traveller John Ingham (he was the first who spotted it in the wild) but was described only after printing of my monograph "The World of Crocuses" and so it was not included there. I'm still growing it only in pots although it come from quite high altitudes and could be growable in open garden, too. Very limited stock!
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Although Crocus ionopharynx was described as having black anthers it is not always the case. Sample HKEP-0304 (sent to me by Erich) has such a light grey tinge on the connectives that it is perceivable only after careful checking. Very important for identification is the purple colour deep in the throat, sometimes visible only in dissected flowers. The authors characterise the flowers as quite uniform in colour, any distinct striping and feathering on the outside observable only in a few specimens. In its typical (and best) forms with very dark outer basal blotches Crocus ionopharynx is very ornamental and with me it is a good grower in the greenhouse. It well sets seed and increases by splitting of the corms. According to I. Sözen, it does not like chalky soils and is tolerant of summer rains, but I keep it in greenhousre all the year round and grow in my standart mix..
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This is crocus from Iranian Kurdistan, collected at several localities in vicinity of locus classicus and by flower quite similar, but other features still I didn't checked, so it is possible that some other still unknown species hides under this name, but this not makes it less beautiful. Limited stock! This sample was collected just near Saqqez but on other side of city.
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Another crocus collected in Iran but significantly more distantly from locus classicus of C. iranicus and is something different from it. Although I'm still working on it, I decided to offer few corms already now because it is excellent grower and increaser. It was found in deep grass out of flowers just near and on wonderfully blooming field of Anemone coronaria - since its nick-name - Anemone field.
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Not so long ago under name isauricus were grown a lot of different species. Only quite recently Kerndorff and Pasche after careful comparing of herbariums and literature data found that true isauricus comes from some mountains around Taskent in S Turkey. I have two something different stocks from closely situated populations which well respond to data given by HKEP. The flowers of both samples have the cup-shape considered typical of the true plant. Parallely this problem was researched by Osman Erol, who regarded as typical "isauricus" plant published by Kerndorff and Pasche as C. concinnus, but it has much more slender flower segments, so I follow here HKEP's decision.
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12.00 EUR
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This species was known for long as dwarf highland form of Crocus veluchensis, but only last year it got proper name. In spring needs plenty of water because in naturte it blooms at melting snow and requires something acid soil. Growing wild on alpine meadows in North Macedonia it don't like excessive hot during summer, so pots must be placed out of alpine house when weather permits.
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Crocus kangalensis was published by Kerndorff & Pasche only few years ago, unfortunately the data about locality from where it was described is given very approximately. Pity, but most of new species published by both German researchers are characterized by observations of single population, so they not always characterizes all spectrum of variability. Plants offered here are collected near Kangal and are slightly different in some features from plants described by HKEP. The main difference is in colour of flower tube which in my stock is darker striped, but according HKEP must be light. But I’m sure that mine stock belongs to the same species,
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The several years in cultivation have shown that C. katrancensis is easy in pots, if kept in the greenhouse the entire time, and it very well increases both from seed and by corm splitting. In flower colour it is very variable, but the darker coloured stripes or feathering are always located solely in the middle of the flower segments. I have not tried the species outside. In its habitat the summers are hot and dry.
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I maid many selections of this beautiful yellow-flowering crocus that bloom together with the melting snow and are ones of the earliest here. This stock contains open pollinated seedlings from plants originally collected at Agalik, near Samarkand in Uzbekistan. Contrary to more southern populations this one is extremely variable.
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Crocus kosaninii is easily distinguishable from other related species by its yellow throat and yellow filaments. Flowers are quite uniform, at least in the introduced stocks. Crocus kosaninii is free flowering and well sets seed. It grows freely outside and is quite hardy though during that most severe winter I almost completely lost my stock, survived only very few corms. This species does not need a hot and dry storage during the summer months but it seems that it prefer more acid substrate.
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C. leichtlinii is still rarely cultivated and can be found only in a few collections. In the wild it grows in a harsh environment with very cold winters and hot and dry summers, thus it is suitable only for pots under cover. But it very well sets seed and increases satisfactorily by corm splitting, so it is worth of wider cultivation.
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Hybrid between crocus reticulatus and crocus angustifolius. wasa raised by me crossing C. reticulatus from Bessarabia (Moldavia) with pollens of C. angustifolius from Crimea (Ukraine) and named after his died daughter by Leonid Bondarenko from Lithuiania. Excellent grower and increaser and abundant bloomer.
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Another new species described by Kerndorff and Pasche some time ago but rarely offered. Main feature separating it from others is white style and by my observations it didn't hybridize with other species, because its seedlings always are true to name. My stock is seed-raised from initial 2 corms which I got from Erich Pasche, Very limited stock.
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This stock is practically identical with the crocus published by Kerndorff & Pasche as Crocus malatyensis. My stock was collected not very far away from type locality (closer to Malatya) and morphologically is very similar, only the anthers in my plants are occasionally with black connectives. Even genetically both stocks are very similar - is it sufficient to regard them as different? I do not know. At least flowers of both generally are inseparable and black colour in anthers occasionally appear in many Turkish species of this region.
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Flowers purest white with a rich yellow throat, large. The bright orange-yellow style branches provide a magnificent contrast to the white segments. An excellent form from the Velebit mountains, 520m, Croatia. Very easy.
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This nice crocus was discovered by HKEP not far from Gundogmus in Turkey. It is quite variable in flower colour and I found semi-albino of it growing together with yellow C. henrikii. I offer here plants from type gathering sent to me by Erich Pasche.
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This species by flowers something resembles more widely known C. reticulatus. In pots it fares very well and even the forms collected in the neighbourhood of C. hittiticus never bloom in December or January, as is quite often the case with the latter. In the greenhouse it well sets seed and increases satisfactorily by corm splitting. I keep the pots during the summer in the greenhouse for the summers in its homeland are very dry and hot.
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Crocus mouradii is correct name for plant earlier known as subsp. dissectus of C. flavus. So far I have tried it only in pots and most likely it needs a deeper planting than the majority of species, because in nature its corms lie very deep in the soil. In summer it requires dry conditions, so I keep the pots in the greenhouse all the year round.
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Most distinct and most beautiful between all species allied around so named C. chrysanthus (where were included genetically even unrelated species). Main feature separating it from all others is its long, black anthers. Only, very very few are offered, so price is so high.
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In 1990, when the Munzur Dağları was visited by the KPPZ expedition, it was a peaceful touristic region with no restrictions as to the entrance into the mountains along the side roads. Some years later the Kurdish revolt against the discrimination and suppression of their culture started and everything dramatically changed. So it is impossible to revisit the region for more detailed observations of crocuses grown there. This, very special looking gathering I'm still keeping under label "cf. munzurense" although it is very possible that it will need proper name.
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Our team were long searching for this very special crocus species of exceptional beauty and finally found it at two localities far out of area where it was supposed to grow according original publication by HKEP. It has perfect flower form and shining blackish-blue anthers with exceptionally long basal lobes and longer filaments. Very few to offer.
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This sample was collected near Travenque in Spain and is more variable than other samples of this species, in general flowers are darker with more prominent outside markings, some could be even more to lilac side of segment colour but some also whitish. I regard them as something more beautiful, although by other features they are quite similar to plants from Morocco.
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Crocus nubigena from the moment of its discovery and first description was a somewhat enigmatic plant. Although it was described from plants reported as collected at Mt. Gargarus, I didn’t find any herbaria collected wild. Regardless of quite poor available data, it was possible to conclude that plants growing wild near Bergamo and on Lesvos Island most precisely respond to original publication, and here are offered just stock originally collected on Lesvos Island with flowers lighter or darker blue and with very prominent black anthers with long basal lobes.
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10.00 EUR
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Crocus olivieri occupies a huge area and is surprisingly uniform throughout, although in certain populations some variations are more common than in others. Masses of bright deep golden yellow flowers among wide spreading leaves looks like a miniature C. flavus version. Collected on Chios Island, Greece where it is growing together with Crocus balansae. It very well sets seed without any additional pollination.
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4.00 EUR
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Crocus orphei is superficially quite similar to C. reticulatus and other closely related species with blue flowers. Regardless of its very isolated location, until very recently it was regarded as C. reticulatus but in 2014 it was described as a new species separable from its allies by the throat colour, the width of the corm fibers and some other morphological features. It is easy to grow in the open garden and well sets seed without additional pollination. Pot grown plants during the summer better to bring outside to not subject the corms to extreme heat.
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20.00 EUR
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The taxonomical status of this species still is something uncertain. Some botanists (A. Guner) regard it as albino form of C. chrysanthus. From a gardener’s viewpoint C. pallidus is easy to grow both in the open garden and in the greenhouse. It perfectly sets seed (hand-pollination is required to ensure clean stocks!) and excellently increases by corm splitting. I collected it in Bulgaria where it is growing along seaside at very low altitudes (30-50 m) whilst in Serbia it was collected at 900m a.s.l. It is rather immune to heat spells so can either stay in the greenhouse or be brought outside.
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10.00 EUR
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Flowers white with a golden yellow throat. Blue forms are more often cultivated though are very rare in the wild and only recently rediscovered and renamed as C. yalovensis. White forms are rarely obtainable, although common in nature. Both are quite easy to grow in pots or in garden. Blooms very early in season.
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4.00 EUR
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It is one of the newest Crocus species published by me only in 2023, although I regarded it as very special new taxa for long before. After careful research with help of Paul Christian, who was one of founders of this crocus alongside with Jim Archibald, was deciphered its wild locality on Mt. Parnassos. It has especially thin, even silky corm tunics allowing immediately to separate it from allied species of sieberi-atticus group.
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8.00 EUR
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Provisionally I named this beauty from Iranian Kurdistan highlands as "Crocus iranicus" but further observations confirmed that it belongs to new, earlier unpublished species. Repeated visit to its locus classicus allowed to get additional material resulted in description and naming of new species. It something resembles C. iranicus so got name - pseudoiranicus what means "false iranicus". Very limited stock.
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30.00 EUR
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Flowers are quite variable but in general bluish violet. Here I’m offering stock originally collected at its locus classicus in prov. Bursa, Ulu-Dag, at altitude of 1800m a.s.l. where it is blooming side by side with golden yellow C. thirkeanus. Flowers in this stock are rich bluish violet, somewhat darker at the base with a large deep yellow zone in the centre.
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20.00 EUR
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The ground colour is pale violet flecked all over the outside with darker dots, contrasting well with the bright yellow anthers. Easy to grow and increases well by very small offset cormlets but rarely seen in cultivation although it is very decorative. From Isparta Province in S Turkey.
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6.00 EUR
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Up to last Bulgarian spring blooming bluish crocus with annulate tunics was named as "C. adamii" what of course was not true, because Crocus adamii is growing only in Caucasus mountains. Quite recently this was confirmed when group of botanists described annulate crocus from adjacent Serbia as C. randjeloviciorum. Both populations - Serbian and Bulgarian are very close - actually on both sides of border and when I compared them - turned that they are of same species. I'm offering plants collected on Bulgarian side of border.
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15.00 EUR
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It is another new-comer from Iran which I found during my first trip there and named after famous explorer of Iranian flora - Reinhard Fritsch, author of two marvellous books on Iranian and Central Asian Alliums. In cultivation Crocus reinhardii proved to be a good grower, although I have tried it only in pots. It well sets seed and increases by splitting. The species seems to be quite hardy and didn’t suffer in the winter when C. gunae (see) barely survived. In summer I keep the pots in the greenhouse.
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25.00 EUR
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This is one of the most spectacular crocuses with flowers that open widely like bright stars. Usually lilac, but the offered stock from S Russia varies greatly from almost whitish to brightest lilac. Easy and hardy in the garden. Hybridizes with C. angustifolius (as pollen parent but never in opposite dirrection) - those hybrids I named C. x leonidii after Lithuanian bulb grower Leonid Bondarenko.
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10.00 EUR
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This beautiful tiny crocus from C. biflorus alliance was just recently described by me as a new species. Actually it was known for long but erroneously identified with C. biflorus, although this plant from Rhodos Island in Greece in most cases has grey or even black halves of anthers. There are other features separating both but about those you can read in International Rock Gardener # 64 - internet Journal of Scottish Rock Garden Club.
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10.00 EUR
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Crocus rujanensis in outer appearance looks something similar to C. dalmaticus and C. sublimis and differs from the two in a combination of characters rather than in one distinct feature. All my samples of it were collected at locus classicus on Rujan Planina, so they undoubtedly are correctly named. In my garden Crocus rujanensis is less vigorous than its closest relatives, most likely due to the lower altitudes where it occurs in wild; it seems that our winters are somewhat too harsh for it, but in a milder climate it is an excellent garden plant – well sets seed and is a good increaser by corm splitting.
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6.00 EUR
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This tiny crocus of exceptional beauty was found by my Ukrainian friend Dimitri Zubov who named it after me. I three times visited Karpathos Island where it is growing wild in search for it but without results. It is of perfect form and quite variable in colour - from white with yellow flower segments outside through different lilac shades to light violet with deep purple striping over segments outside. Anthers almost invariably has prominent black connective, rarely as thin black edges and only in one individual they were without black. Very few corms available.
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50.00 EUR
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In cultivation it is not difficult, well sets seed and increases by corm splitting. During the 8 years the stock from the original 10 corms has bulked up to around 50 flowering-size corms and lots of smaller ones. Of course, it grows only in the greenhouse and every spring is carefully hand pollinated to get true seeds. Pots are kept in the greenhouse all year round.
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18.00 EUR
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It is one of the last new species published by Kerndorff & Pasche, It is named after Sanandaj in Iran as "growing East of this city". Flowers are of very nice, pale bluish tint, occasionally with slightly darker stripes on outside. My stock was collecterd just on side of ploughed field on mountain pass in short distance from road.
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30.00 EUR
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In spring 2008, while traveling with friends across the southwestern part of Turkey, shortly before Antalya we stopped to take pictures of Galanthus gracilis and Cyclamen trochopteranthum. In dense shrubs I spotted a yellow crocus which in colour and shape looked just like some of the very common yellow forms of Crocus chrysanthus with brown speckling or striping on the segment exterior. It was getting quite late in the evening, the dark clouds forecasted heavy rains, the conditions for photographing were poor, therefore I only picked the flower for a later examination at the hotel. Great was my surprise when instead of the expected trifid style of a C. chrysanthus I found a many branched one. Next day returning to its place we discovered that this crocus was very variable in colour from almost pure white to quite deep yellow, but the outsides of the outer segments were always stippled, feathered or striped greyish or brownish. It was named after “sarı çınar” – ‘yellow platanus or plane trees’ in Turkish (trees near which it was found) and the Sarıçınar Dağları mountains where it is distributed.
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25.00 EUR
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