STILL TIME TO PLANT SPRING CROCUS

Crocus chrysanthus 'Cream Beauty'
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Fall shipping for bulbs usually ends around the end of October, so you still have time for crocus.

Crocuses are inherently charming and courageous as they brave blasts of cold air and accumulated icy snow in early Spring. Perhaps, most importantly, crocuses provide a healing splash of bright color in the landscape after a seemingly-interminable, gray and bleak Winter.



Crocus 'Pickwick'











Separate from violet in your composition with another color but not white.

Here's how to do crocuses. If your site has space, avoid the color mixes. Make a selection of five varieties that includes one white. Strive for an accent of something unexpected, such as the tawny shade of 'Cream Beauty.' Incorporate a bright yellow, one of its color wheel opposite, violet, and something striped:

That's:

'Cream Beauty'
White
Yellow
Violet
Stiped

In this case, quantities of each color are not as important as creating individual color drifts. In fact, the aesthetic effect is much more dramatic if the indivudal color quantities are highly varied.

Offset the drifts with about 7-11, oddly-placed single crocus corms slightly away from the drift itself to simulate naturalization. Do not blend the offset corms into another color drift.

Spring crocuses! The perfect segue from Winter Tyde.