Crocus tommasinianus

Boyce Tankersley via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:42:51 PDT
It is the only crocus in my garden that can survive and thrive under heave
chipmunk and squirrel pressure. Just coming into flower now. Range of
colors and bloom times.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM Mary Sue Ittner via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> 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.
>
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