FOR many gardeners the period between the beginning of the year and summer is measured in flowering bulbs. Even if we didn’t have a calendar to guide us, we could still tell roughly whereabouts in the ...

COLORFUL CROCUS LAWNS: Planting a crocus lawn can give a burst of color and charm to the garden with minimal effort. (National Garden Bureau) “September’s Baccalaureate – a combination is of crickets ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: To honor my mother, I would like to plant crocus bulbs on her grave site. And of course the cemetery is going to mow them off in the spring. Will they survive, or is this a waste of ...

I have just been to a Crocus Day held at RHS Wisley. The first speaker, John Grimshaw, voiced the opinion that crocus should be just as popular as snowdrops. John is a well-known galanthophile and ...

About 150 of the crocuses were taken from a nearby site and replanted in the city A project is under way to try to halt the decline of Nottinghamshire's county flower in the region. The autumn crocus ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The micropylar secrete of the ovules of Crocus vernus ssp. vernus was analyzed for the Ca + 2 content by atomic absorption, and its capacity ...

I’VE never liked the phrase ‘spring has sprung’. It suggests the season of rebirth arrives in a single flourish over a matter of days – one minute it’s winter then Bang! This, however, is not my ...

A project is under way to try to halt the decline of Nottinghamshire's county flower in the region. The autumn crocus (crocus nudiflorus) was, together with its spring-flowering variant (crocus vernus ...