crocus in bloom
- To: "'perennials'"
- Subject: crocus in bloom
- From: S* C*
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:58:28 -0600
Well, here's a sign of spring: species crocus (and a few of the
Dutch hybrids too) in bloom in east central Illinois!
The white with orange anthers and the pale cream ones had put up
buds almost two weeks ago and were promptly covered with a late snow, so I
didn't know if they were sulking but waiting under that cold white stuff or
giving up the ship.
This morning, they were opening, and the purple and butter-yellow
(they always are a little later than the white and cream) were starting too,
along with some of the big guys (Remembrance, purple). Some years in this
area, the species crocus (also called "snow crocus") will come up and then
it'll be a week before the big Dutch ones. Of course, some years they all
open the same suddenly hot day and are fried a few days later. You never
can tell in the Midwest with all its variations and extremes--never a dull
gardening moment!
We have lots of foliage up for reticulata iris, daffodil, species
tulip, and hybrid tulip, so it won't be long now. Of course, the adonis has
already bloomed in the raised scree bed; it's our earliest non-bulb
flowering plant and therefore a real treasure of golden yellow
composite-like blooms. The snowdrops are blooming but are kind of
disappointing this year, as are the eranthis (winter aconite), but maybe
it's just too early...
Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
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