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| This pan of
Crocus 'Brian Duncan' was shown at the Cleveland AGS
Show by George Young as part of his 3 pan bulbous
plants, and appears in the on-line show report - ( the
picture is reproduced here by permission of Robert Rolfe.) |
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| Janis
Ruksans describes in his book 'Buried
Treasures', how this was one of three beautiful
hybrids which he found in his first garden where
C. heuffelianus grew for years - a natural cross
between the latter and C. x
cultorum. In
terms of flower size and abundance of flowering
they most closely resembled C. x
cultorum, but
in colour and corm shape looked more like C.
heuffelianus.
He named the
hybrid for his friend and our member, Brian
Duncan, the distinguished Omagh daffodil
breeder.
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| Crocus
heuffelianus itself is widespread in the
mountains of eastern Europe, preferring moist
compost, and this late-flowering offspring
similarly prefers a cool, relatively damp summer. |
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