Crocus

The hardy six-petalled, goblet-shaped flowers, spring up through thin grass like leaves from autumn to spring (depending on the variety). Most UK gardeners grow early spring flowering types, however, with careful selection crocus blooms can be grown almost in succession from September through to April.



There was an apple tree in the yard –
This would have been
Forty years ago – behind,
Only meadows. Drifts
Of crocus in the damp grass

~ Louise Gluck