We should never undervalue crocuses. They may be almost invisible in dull weather, but in sun each becomes a six point star of colour. In my previous garden, I planted a job lot of crocus corms under ...

Born free: gardeners who cultivate the meadow look want crocuses to match It's crocus-envy time again. Shiny blobs of uniform purple and gold in the park never make me jealous: the barely there drifts ...

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 ...

As every Carson City flower grower knows, squirrels love crocuses. No matter how often you trap the critters and take them miles away for release, they come back somehow. And they love to dine on ...

Crocuses carry an outsize flower and are very decorative for such a small plant. The flower tube is taller than the leaves, at least initially, and weighs several times more than the leaves put ...

What is in full bloom in my garden can be finished and gone in London and have not yet put in an appearance of any kind in Aberdeen. And no year has been more difficult to call than this one, with ...