Waisted, lilac-blue flowers, silvery or buff outside, with white zones above their yellow throats & trifid, orange-red stigmas, in spring. Similar to both C. adanensis and C. antalyensis.
Large, solid lavender-blue flowers with deep yellow throats before the leaves in autumn. Excellent in the garden where it will readily naturalize to create drifts of sweetly scented blossoms from March to May.
Smallish white or lilac flower, with the exterior of outer petals marked with dark feathering on a pale background. Grown from seed collected at Mt Falakro in eastern Greek Macedonia.
An impressive plant bearing up to 5 large, deep lilac flowers stippled in dark purple veins above neat strappy foliage in autumn. From the centre arise 3 large, lolling, vivid crimson stigmas.
Good strong grower for the garden with autumn flowers of pale lilac or occasionally white. The large blooms are of good substance and give good service over a long period in April. Easy in the garden and a great increaser.
A fine garden plant with large, open-faced, pale to deep lilac flowers with a yellow throat. Believed to have originated from the type locality at Pendelikon near Athens where the Ancients quarried the stone for the Parthenon.
Rarely offered spring flowering species endemic to Crete. Showy spring flowers of snow white brushed with purple and black with a yellow throat. An exquisite combination of style and colour.
Grown from seed collected on Mt Kajmatchalan, Pela, Greece. Found in bracken and turf lower down the mountain. Lilac blue flowers with yellow throats in early spring. This race from most of mainland Greece is much easier than the Cretan type-race.
The darkest and largest flowered selection of C. speciosus made around the turn of last century - so it has stood the test of time. Flowers deep lilac blue with prominent and even darker coloured veining and when fully open can measure up to 10cm across.
Flowers are a soft lilac with a pale yellow throat, with divided reddish-orange styles, Endemic to the Adriatic coastal mountains of western former Yugoslavia and southern Italy.
Vigorous selection bearing a myriad of soft lilac-pink, star-shaped flowers with silvery-white exteriors. Wonderfully floriferous and, as with all its bretheren, a great subject for the rock garden or open meadow.
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Vigorous selection bearing a myriad of soft lilac-pink, star-shaped flowers with silvery-white exteriors. Wonderfully floriferous and, as with all its bretheren, a great subject for the rock garden or open meadow.
Another of E. A. Bowle’s selections and without doubt one of the “pinkest” crocus currently on offer. Bright pink with the exterior of the petals silvery-grey makes it a delightful combination. Baby bulbs available
Llarge flowered richly coloured selection in solid deep pinky purple. Produces a succession of rounded chalices, increasing well to make bold patches of colour throughout Spring.
Superb Grecian species, similar to C. boryi, but its autumn flowers are deeply veined in violet and flatten dish-like in the sun. Very easy in Australian conditions and will rapidly build into showy clumps.
Large, pale to deep lilac-blue flowers, often with darker tips, but without the yellow throat of its close relative, C. sieberi ssp sublimis. Likes it cool and not too dry to do well. Ex Pela, Greece
Very large, flowers with an outer silvery wash lightly splashed in mauve and with deeper, pure purple inner petals. Excellent for naturalizing spreading rapidly into pools of vibrant spring colour.
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