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I am growing crocus from The Crocus Group seed exchange.  This is an informal group, an off-shoot of the British Iris Society.  Anyone can join the group.  The only charge is to cover cost of the seed exchange, there's no membership fee.  If you want seeds, you email a request for the list.

One seedlist I have kept has 89 offerings.  That doesn't mean there were 89 species - there were 8 collections of C pallasii, for example, from different areas of Turkey. 

Many are still in pots, having never flowered, but some I put in the garden.  C boryi and goulimyi bloomed and were eaten, probably by rabbits.

The Scottish Rock Garden Society website includes The Crocus Pages with descriptions and photos of many crocus    https://www.srgc.org.uk/genera/index.php?log=crocus

Unfortunately for you, the USA has regulations for importing seeds that make it too much of a bother to send seeds to you.

Diane

I should lend them some hummingbirds - they pollinate Puyas in Chile.

A second Leucoryne from Flores and Watson seeds in 2003.   L vittata first flowered in 2019.

It is sweetly scented.

I just checked on my other Mac which uses Chrome.  Hovering puts a line of information at the bottom of the screen, just as David wrote.  This does not happen on this Mac where I am using Safari.

I tried to follow your instructions, Martin, using your most recent photos but nothing happened.

So then I just clicked on the part under a photo - paperclip DSC6434.jpg -  and two things happened:  a circle popped up and then down into my "downloaded" file, and a copy of the photo opened up in a separate window on my screen.

It might depend on one's computer - mine's a Mac.

Thanks.  It is a good looking plant, and spiky enough to deter the deer in my neighbourhood.  Maybe I should grow one.

I thought it odd that I have never seen it, as I have been to South Africa four times, but I just googled E horridus, and it is native to the Eastern Cape Province where I didn't go.

What is the gray leaved plant in the bottom left corner of Too Many Plants'  Img 4509?

Same genus, but a different species

Sheila also put her photo on our wiki.


The other 6 species of Leucocoryne  I bought from F & W have not bloomed yet - lots of leaves, though.

This is the third year that Leucocoryne macropetala has flowered. 
I bought seeds from John Watson and Anita Flores in 2003.

I sent some of the seeds to Sheila Burrow in Perth, Australia. 
I wonder if hers have flowered.           

Wylie,

You could just exchange pollen - a lot easier than exchanging a bulb.

Several years ago a friend gave me a seedling of a cross he had made:  Clivia miniata x gardenii.

The leaves are narrower than the other clivias I grow, but it hasn't flowered yet.

Hmm - I've just checked the labels on some of my other clivias and several are hybrids (F1 or F2) of the same two species.  I've had them for many years and don't recall them ever flowering either.

After a long wait since I sowed the seeds in December 2007, I am enjoying a potful of Narcissus romieuxii flowers.  I sowed seeds of subspecies rifanus and also romieuxii hybrids, but all six flowers look exactly alike, so I don't think these will be hybrids.

Quote from: janemcgary on December 28, 2023, 01:25:51 PMI have a whole lot of Crocus sativus, apparently thriving in the veg garden

Every few years I buy some Crocus sativus bulbs, but they never flower after the first year.

The instructions say:

General Discussion
Feel free to talk about anything and everything about geophytes in this board.

And "anything and everything" have been discussed.

Here are the topics, though I have left out the numbers of posts.

deer
gopher
mealy bugs & scale   
slugs & snails
spiders
stagonospora
virus

hand pollination
microwaving pollen   
storing pollen
 
Seed cleaning
trading seeds
SX seed results
paper pots for starting seeds 
seed starting times   
starting winter-growing seeds 
sowing old seed
flotation for seed germination   
transplanting seedlings   
time for seedlings to flower
   
chipping bulbs
bulbils
transplanting bulbs

summer growers
summer bulbs planted 
growth cycles
invasive bulbs

adapting imported bulbs

labels
stakes
sand (plunge) bed
soil mixes
fertilizer
gibberellic acid
mychorrizae

flower colors
short-lived flowers     

Oxalis is most popular, with 39 posts, and Lilium is second, with 30.

I find it odd that there was nothing at all about daffodils and snowdrops.

I'll post the whole list next.