Wow here it is 21 February, we had 4 inches of snow last night, and the temp yesterday was plus 10....minus 10 today...
but I do have Autumn crocus leaves up 2 inches....... Good eh!!!!! well I think so....... qahtan
autumn crocuses in bloom from a previos year.....
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/qahtan/garden/Picture005-2.jpg)
They're lovely!
My white crocus have keeled over in the rain, the yellow ones eaten by the birds and I've just got one purple one!
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But it is a lovely one just like that,, a nice deep purple.......
Later on I hope to take a drive down to Niagara Falls, they have a wonderful display of spring flowers in the gardens there, and the lawns have hundreds of crocuses peppered all over qahtan
So are they saffron crocuses?
it seems there are lots of crocus variaty's. but I did find this. which our autumn crocus does well, not tons of blossoms but a showing, yet we can't seem to grow spring ones...
The spice saffron is obtained from the stigmas of Crocus sativus, an autumn/fall-blooming species.
qahtan
Colchicum is the autumn crocus, Crocus sativa for saffron - best not to mix them up :o