Rob's plants home garden plants wildlife seed photos plant sale journal topics plantlinks fun guestbook Crocus vernus (and hybrids)

 

Crocus buds rising as sleek spears from the barren winter soil

I like how crocus just works its way through whatever happened to get planted atop it - here, a bit of sedum in the rock garden. Common name spring crocus Family iridaceae Life cycle perennial bulb Flowers various (early spring) Size 6" Light sun-part shade Every year, crocus battles it out with Draba aizoides en hellebores for the honor of first spring bloom (that's not counting Darley heath, since it blooms all winter). This year, one patch of crocus, along our front walk, won the sprint.

We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston.

About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Crocus vernus (and hybrids)

I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my guestbook. If you have a question that needs a personal response, please e-mail me.