Fall is the season for planting bulbs that will bloom in the spring such as crocuses, daffodils, and tulips. And, unlike the ...

COLORFUL CROCUS LAWNS: Planting a crocus lawn can give a burst of color and charm to the garden with minimal effort. (National Garden Bureau) “September’s Baccalaureate – a combination is of crickets ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’VE never liked the phrase ‘spring has sprung’. It suggests the season of rebirth arrives in a single flourish over a matter of days – one minute it’s winter then Bang! This, however, is not my ...

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Plant Systematics and Evolution, Vol. 185, No. 3/4 (1993), pp. 219-227 (9 pages) Ovule fertilization and seed set were investigated in Crocus thomasii and Crocus vernus subsp. vernus, after different ...

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 ...