Autumn plants and Crocus.

Autumn has arrived, so have the autumn Crocus and Nerines.

Enkianthus campanulas Albiflorus has beautiful autumn leaves with pure white bell flowers in spring on a medium sized shrub, from Japan.. 

Nerine filifolia

Nerine maxiania

Nerine pudica

Crocus goulimyi alba (above) and (below) is Jons form of Crocus goulimyi wild collected seed from Peloponnese by The Crocus Group. Seed collected in the wild gives us such wonderful variation in flower colour.

A lot of your seed will be germinating or coming up for 2nd year seed from Marcus's collections a very exciting time to see what we are all going to get, don't forget to feed them with a liquid or granular food.

Crocus laevigatus fontenayi opens very widely, received many years ago from Felice Blake as Crocus laevigatus fontenayi. Janis Ruksans has renamed this Crocus as C. pumilus as it is from Crete. He did say he had bought Crocus laevigatus fontenayi and growing it on discovered it was virused and he had thrown it out. 

Crocus laevigatus closed flower above in my garden and flowers open in Jon's pot below, all raised from seed by Jon, from a collection on Greece by the late Marcus Harvey. Crocus laevigatus is very variable in flower colour from Greece, Crete to the Peloponnese all vary as we can see from the seed raised by Jon.

A different colour variations of Crocus laevigatus grown by Jon above and below.

Crocus laevigatus with the gold on the outside flushed with purple very beautiful.

Crocus laevigatus Jon has taken the picture from above to show colour variations from Marcus's s

wild collected seed. It is just so good to see seed being raised in this way. 

Crocus pumilus Coll.  Crete from Otto, very different to my C. pumilus above.

Crocus puringii, Otto sent a corm to Janis Ruksans to get this Crocus correctly named, Otto doubted that is was a C. specious and wanted to know exactly what it was, it has been identified as Crocus puringii.

Thank you Jon for your photos.

Our meeting in on this Saturday 25th May at 2.00pm Olinda Community Hall, Olinda -Monbulk Road, Olinda, with a group discussion on when to pot on and what to do with baby seedlings, bulbs and corms.