Why We Love It
Crocuses are bright and beautiful and a fantastic way to attract bees to your garden in early spring. They have low-growing, clump-forming colourful cup shaped flowers and are often mass planted in drifts. Crocus bursting open for the early sunshine is one of the true joys of spring. Crocuses don't come in a wide variety of colours but they are bright enough to put on a show. Stunning in beds, lawns, under trees, rock gardens, in front of shrubs, along walkway.
Spectacular in large sweeping drifts.
Complement orange and yellow primroses

What To Know

- Mature Height: 0.1m

- Stunning in beds, lawns, under trees, rock gardens, in front of shrubs, along walkway.

- Spectacular in large sweeping drifts.

- Complement orange and yellow primroses- Mature Spread: 0.05m

- Season of Interest: Spring

- Position: Full sun

- Soil: Well drained, fertile

How to Care

- For the best results plant in early autumn in naturalistic drifts 10cm (4in) deep in a gritty, well-drained soil.

- Apply a balanced fertilizer in early autumn if your spring is short and the days heat up fast; or, apply fertilizer after bulbs flower in late winter if your spring is long and temperate. The crocuses will have a chance to use the extra nutrients to produce bigger carbohydrate stores.

- Through the autumn, keep crocus beds watered if weather gets dry, but do not waterlog the soil. Cover the beds with mulch before the winter.

- In late February, remove mulches from snowdrops and crocuses so the shoots can come through.

- In February and March, keep plastic milk jugs or other coverings on hand to protect the flowers of crocuses and other early bloomers against the return of severe weather.

- If you have crocuses growing in your lawn in mid-Spring, don't mow until their leaves have died down.