Bulbs: Are your daffs and crocus starting to show green? (Part II), 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Neal, if your snowdrops are opening you can't be far behind, mine haven't been open for long. The tricolor is totally undoctored, just cropped, it is amazing when you bring it closer just how much better you see them. I am surprised it took well, the camera mostly does if the light is reasonable but I have that very light violet self set crocus on the last thread that will NOT be photographed. I haven't come across that before, the Iris reticulata can be difficult, I think it must be to do with some colour it is reflecting that the camera isn't designed to cope with, like ultra violet. I say colour 'reflecting' because the colours reflected are the ones we see (or is it the ones absorbed!)

Steve I think I am going to have to go for another pink, most I have seen are too dark, by the pics anyway. I have been looking at the dates on my lilies, Asiatic 20th June, Regale African Queen 22nd July, Oriental Marco Polo 7th August, Black beauty 12th August, Rubrum 7th Sept., Nepalense 17th July, Stargazer 1st August, Barbaresco 11th September, Casa Blanca 12th August, Everest 26th July, Cardiocrinum gigantuem 20th June, which was early, the other one flower year before in August I think.

Steve is that one a Lilium Regale? I have only seen pics of the white one, mostly they have darker reverses. Whatever it is beautiful! The Madonna lily here is supposed to flower much ealrier and is evergreen over winter, I think it is L. candidum.

Just for a laugh, here is one of the several attempts to photo that awkward crocus, you can see a baby cyclamen bulb with a stem on it in front, it must have been uprooted when clearing leaves, they don't really make many or any roots for a start