Tiny

Close up photos can be very misleading.  This little crocus has petals not much more than 1cm long, so much more delicate than the common garden ones.   It's also a confused crocus having undergone several name changes over the time I have been growing it.  Once considered the blue form of Crocus pestalozzae (usually white flowered) it was split from that and named Crocus violaceus but it was then found that this name had already been used long ago.  So the latest revision has named it after the province in NW Turkey where it is found, Crocus yalovensis.   Despite it's diminutive size, it's easily grown and usually sets plentiful seed.   These were sown in 2020 and will be an impressive potful next year.

All change on the travel plans front.  I'm still not 100% but the clincher is that necessary repairs to the car brakes cannot be done till Monday and the advice on travelling to London and back was "Don't" ... so I won't.   Jamie will take the train south instead while I have a quiet weekend to hopefully get me back to full strength.

On a grey and sometimes wet day I did some pottery, both making and glazing at the community session this morning and spent much of the rest of the day with Jamie apart from a lengthy snooze sleep before our evening meal.