The vibrant, jewel-like tones of delicate crocus flowers popping up throughout beds and borders are a joy to behold as the seasons change in spring. These petite yet striking flowers are loved by UK ...

Spring blooms start with fall planting, so now’s the time to choose your bulbs. Gardeners often ask which bulbs will last in the garden for more than one year of enjoyment. I’ve grown all the ...

FOR many gardeners the period between the beginning of the year and summer is measured in flowering bulbs. Even if we didn’t have a calendar to guide us, we could still tell roughly whereabouts in the ...

Crocuses are like Hamlet's sorrows: they come not single spies, but in battalions. It is remarkable how one day there seem scarcely any around, and the next they are everywhere. This seems especially ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: To honor my mother, I would like to plant crocus bulbs on her grave site. And of course the cemetery is going to mow them off in the spring. Will they survive, or is this a waste of ...

I have just been to a Crocus Day held at RHS Wisley. The first speaker, John Grimshaw, voiced the opinion that crocus should be just as popular as snowdrops. John is a well-known galanthophile and ...

About 150 of the crocuses were taken from a nearby site and replanted in the city A project is under way to try to halt the decline of Nottinghamshire's county flower in the region. The autumn crocus ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The micropylar secrete of the ovules of Crocus vernus ssp. vernus was analyzed for the Ca + 2 content by atomic absorption, and its capacity ...