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first crocus out!
On 04/02/2015 20:15, David Hill wrote:
On 04/02/2015 16:10, Roger Tonkin wrote: In article , david@abacus- nurseries.co.uk says... Here the crocus started to come out New year, and there must be around 20 now in flower. I have found the first snowdrop in a pot showing a flower but those in open ground, not a sign. The first daffs are still going strong after a month, the flowers are lasting well, the 2nd variety is now a few days from opening. David @ the sunny side of Swansea Bay Strange, here 40 miles inland and 700ft higher snowdrops have been out for a week or so now. Admittedly the are mostly under shrubs/hedges, but some are in open ground. Very few signs of the crocus crop though, but in the churchyard up the road there is a mass of those pale blue crocuses that come up without leaves. I'd love to get some of those, but would feel a little concerned about digging up anything in a graveyard. I think what you have there are Colchicum, a lot of different varieties. As for digging in the graveyard, I doubt you would disturb the inhabitants, they should be deeper than any bulbs would be. I would have thought they'd be more likely to be Crocus speciosus, David. I'm not aware of a pale blue colchicum. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...sus_clump3.jpg If C. speciosus is, indeed, what Roger admires, they're not that hard to obtain. They usually appear in the late summer/autumn catalogues. -- Spider. On high ground in SE London gardening on heavy clay |
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