Unique?
I returned from a week away to find assorted bulbs had come into flower in frames and greenhouse. Mild weather, especially after a cold snap, is a trigger for (too) early flowering. Crocus especially tend to flop when they flower in the low light, dull, mild winter weather. This one is still looking good and it's a very special one. A chance hybrid that arose in my own collection from seed sown ten years ago. I have just the one corm, this the first time it's made two flowers. Maybe one year it will increase. The seed came from Crocus sublimis which is purple flowered but I think the pollen must have come from a nearby Crocus cvijicii, a similar yellow flowered species. It must have happened before somewhere but I don't know of anyone growing this hybrid.
A day at home apart from a walk with Meg. A day of rain. Zero sunshine here. Housework, unpacking, laundry this morning. Then I've been working on the new talk which I might get finished this evening. A quiet day. Much needed.
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