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Sorry! My location is Los Angeles California!

"here" may mean, here on the forum, and is a valid question.
Of course in discussion "here" may soon mean locality, and it is a good idea to set up your fourum profile (top left of page) to show it over on the left of your replies.

I grow and have grown loads of different crocus species. There is pleasure to be had. They are fairly inexpensive and commonly available from the usual suppliers of Dutch bulbs. The ones that survive long term untended in the garden are the large Dutch hybrids and Crocus tommasinianus - that is of course here in the North of England.

You can find my photos in the PBS wiki crocus pages (search on my surname).

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Crocus

I have tried but I can't recall ever growing a crocus to flowering from seed. So any photos are of the commercial varieties.

Hi. It is Chiapas, and chiapasiana.

POWO lists H. cleo as an accepted species, with the synonym Hymenocallis chiapasiana T.M.Howard in Pl. Life 35: 56 (1979)

Hello,

Welcome to the forum. As this forum is being used by an international community it would be great if you would specify where ,,here" is....... And it is also nice to know a name. You can set up an automatic signature like in this reply so that you do not need to do that in every individual post.
Your question is very good and once your locality is clear you should get a friendly reply. 

Bye for now 

Hi guys!

I'm new to this forum. Only got an account a little while ago. But I have a question. Does anyone here grow any other species of crocus that's not sativus? Does anyone have any experience with them? And do you guys know of anyone who sells or donates them? 

I know I've posted my Ferraria crispa Burm. ssp. nortieri already in this months post, maybe even started in last months post, but had to share it's quite impressive staying power, compared to my many other Ferraria. AND...TONS of fragrant flowers too!

Kohleria warczewiczii (sorry about the name...) in flower. The color combination is great. The plant is quite tall and does not produce many rhizomes and has no dormancy. Very easy from cuttings. I replace my plant regularly with new cuttings.

I recently saw a photo of a 'Tractema verna' which looked like your plant, and matches plants in our Cantabrian coast, but it's not like the Tractema verna from central Europe, with quite wide leaves (I can't grow it here, so I have never seen the plant physically).

Note: modern genetic studies, even by different teams, have confirmed the splitting of Scilla, so I will use Scilla only when appropriate. It's not my fault if Kew (who are not God) are not up-to-date. I am a botanist and I must follow what science is telling. Of course Scilla is a valid name (only inaccurate and misleading) and it can be used, I will respect that, but I ask for respect to my position as well.

Last fall I planted out these no name bulb which bloom for the first time this year.  No idea what it is. I've looked a scilla, hyacinthella, hyacinthoides, fessia and merwilla pictures on the wiki and don't see anything that looks like it. Doesn't smell like an allium. Its starry light blue flowers are rather pretty little things.  Whatever it is, it's hardy-we went down to 15 last winter. 

Any ideas?  Is this a plant to be feared?

Jan

Always the last to  flower.  Scented of clove.

Lachenalia nervosa