I am going to jump in here because my name is Tom Masinter and I get a hoot out of seeing the name Crocus tommasinianus. > On Mar 13, 2025, at 10:37 AM, Jane McGary via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > Crocus tommasinianus is very cheap to buy in quantity from Dutch bulb catalogs. Look for named strains in brighter colors. It naturalizes readily in grass, spreading by seed, and shows up here and there in my garden. I don't know how the seed gets dispersed so widely -- possibly by ants, like the Cyclamen species so common in the Pacific Northwest. > > Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA > > On 3/13/2025 8:18 AM, Mary Sue Ittner via pbs wrote: >> I had my first flowering of Crocus tommasinianus from BX seed this year and was fascinated to see that the flowers didn't open all at the same time and for many weeks a crab spider went from one spent flower to a new one as it opened. It even hung on to the last spent flower for a day or two. Fortunately for the pollinators I don't think it captured any, but it or another one was more fortunate on a Tristagma. I thought about adding the crocus spider photos to the wiki, but there are already a lot of photos of this species on the wiki. But when I thanked Mike Rummerfield for donating the seed he sent me photos of this species naturalizing in his garden in Washington state. Those photos are spectacular so I have added them to the wiki. Enjoy. >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> PBS Forum https://… > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum https://… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…