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That will teach me!

3 years ago my brother presented me with a pot of green leaves - 'neighbour says nice purple flowers' if you want them.
Each year - this huge bunch of fat green leaves appeared. Nothing happened. Earlier in the summer - it was apparent they were doing nothing again. I dug them out and binned them.
Must have missed one corm - Colchium - a single flower!



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Could there have been too much foliage?
Probably a daft question, but I've discovered that the primulas I planted back in March flower more, if I keep pulling off leaves.

9 Sep, 2013

 

Not with these Mouldy. From what I've read - the autumn flowering crocus flower once the foliage has died back. Obviously I left it long enough this year to feed the bulb before ripping them out.
Strange re primulas - never heard of that before. I often cut of the dying foliage but never had them flower because of it. I wonder why that happens.
The leaves to the rear are actually Primula (Vialii) leaves - they are trying to flower again but I haven't pulled any off.

9 Sep, 2013

 

I found lots of new, wee buds, nestled inside the foliage, which towered over them, (lack of sunlight, I said to myself) after I thought they'd finished flowering for this year, around late April, early May, so thought - In for a penny - and they're still flowering away, although the recent blooms (last two weeks) aren't so large.
One, oddly enough, has white flowers with a purple centre, instead of the deep purple it began with.
Strange lark, this gardening. Lol.

9 Sep, 2013

bjs
Bjs
 

I am confused what with fat leaves did you throw out?
wait a miniute is that a colchicum not a crocus they have wide leaves,not even the same family.lol Related to Lilies.
I have never heard the expression that autumn crocus flower after the leaves die down I suppose they do but they died down about four months ago.
If you look in the catalog's they will refer to them flowering before the leaves they follow even before the flowers die in lots of instances.
B
I know I have been around to long ! I stored all this information fifty years ago ,don't know what I did yesterday mind you.

9 Sep, 2013

 

Crikey, Angie.
Our weather's affecting plants in a bigger way than I'd imagined.
I'm gonna grow pineapples next year! Lol.

9 Sep, 2013

 

Scottish, I have lots if these. Posted a picture for you. The leaves are nuisance. You have to leave them for a long time and they are a mess... They are very unsightly.
The flowers are delicate and elegant but they cannot stand the rain. It will beat then down and they will never stand up.

9 Sep, 2013

 

Good timing, Klahanie!
Hence the large leaves...to protect the evolving flower.
Now it all makes sense.
Isn't nature clever?

9 Sep, 2013

 

Brian, that's what I get for not reading something correctly. A case of misidentification and confusion on my part. You pointed me in the right direction. Those leaves would have been better described as thick, lush and strap like, rather than fat and green. A neighbour has masses of these in her garden hence I came up with the name Autumn Crocus. I'll correct her too.
Mould, every day is a school day :)
Klahanie thanks. Yes I had an awful dislike for those leaves particularly as I was getting no flowers from them.
Lets hope this little flower multiplies on its own :)

9 Sep, 2013

 

I'd better don my dunce cap & stand in the corner, eh? Lol.

9 Sep, 2013

 

We refer to them here as "fall crocus" Bjs (even in garden centers) although they are not the crocus family. Just the resemblance ...I guess.

9 Sep, 2013

 

I hope there is room for both of us in that corner Mouldy :)

9 Sep, 2013

 

Get away with you. You've more knowledge in your wee finger than I have in my entire body!
If I make my ears sticky-out I'll be able to hear my betters, like your good self, talking wisdom & may be able to learn.
It also stops the cap from sliding over my eyes. Lol.

9 Sep, 2013

bjs
Bjs
 

Scottish
Not all are large some have comparatively narrow leave and some small no more than 2in high, those need extra care though, I did show a few pics last winter of the small ones in troughs.
B

9 Sep, 2013



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