By definition: Crocus ~ a
small, spring flowering plant of the iris family, which grows from a corm and
bears bright yellow, purple, or white flowers.
This small, bright blooming flower is so
much more than that to gardener's like myself who experience & celebrate
the four seasons! Last week my daughter came home & said there's a flower
blooming! I had already snapped the below pic with its silky petals the day
before. The irony is that in a few months there will be thousands of beautiful
blooms gracing my yard & nothing will be said. But this first one sent my
heartbeat going & got a excited thumbs up from my millennial! I don't think
it is by accident that the blooms are trumpet shaped as if to play spring has
sprung!!
You need to mark your calendars now, so when
the corms become available in the fall you will make sure you have them to
plant. Now I recommend planting by a front door or any bed where you will see
them right away! The blooms do not last long so a high traffic area is a nice
place to start. If you are thinking about redoing a lawn area in the fall, then
buying enough to naturalize in the lawn would be beautiful. We all love those
woodland areas loaded with pale purple blooms when we are driving around this
time of year. So make sure you plant at least a few so you can experience that
heart-pounding reaction or hear that simple, "there's a flower blooming!"
