The gardener’s guide to snowdrops, dwarf iris, crocus, muscari and camassia. ... scilla, winter aconites, snowflakes and glory-of-the-snow, but they are not discussed here.

We may not have any snow in the south of England, but our lawn is covered with snow crocuses (Crocus sieberi).Individually these slender lilac blooms are insignificant, but en masse they are ...

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There is something courageous about the tiny crocus.Its flowers, blooming determinedly through the snow, have the power to give the gardener the boost he needs to get through the last, lingering ...

For as long as I have been gardening in Colorado, this is the first year I did not have crocuses in bloom by mid-January. Buried beneath several feet of snow, even the earliest varieties had the ...

Glory of the snow (Chionodoxa) is a lovely 4- to 6-inch plant with tiny, upward-facing, star-shaped blue flowers with white centers. Grape hyacinths (Muscari) are among the tallest of the minor bulbs.

Bill Bunn admires a tiny Prairie crocus, the first one of spring, for its tall, wild spirit. ... snow-packed foot path I’ve made up a south-west facing slope to the top of an unnamed hill.

Crocus flowers just barely push out through the snow in March 2020 in Pittsfield — a harbinger of spring we'll hopefully see again soon. Stephanie Zollshan Crocus is derived from the Greek “krokos,” ...

So, if you have big dreams of filling your garden with an array of colourful crocuses next year, it’s important to follow the rules around how deep to plant crocus bulbs.