Bulbs: ...and more Crocus....finally!, 1 by gemini_sage

gemini_sage wrote:
Thank y'all so much! Tammy, those were all just planted last fall (we moved in in April last year). I've got to get some more pics because now the Jetfire daffodils have really made it showy there. The original plan was to naturalize the lawn there because that is outside the fenced in area for the dog and doesn't require mowing as much. Now, I think I'm just going to make it all garden, lol. Its the view off the back deck, and was painfully void of color last year- ha! fixed that.

Nery, the crocus areas can be mowed on high setting soon after they bloom, but the daffs hang around till June. Thats why I'll probably end up mulching that whole area. That, and after seeing the area colorful I know I'm going to want to keep it that way throughout the season. I believe that is 100 Ruby Giant, 50 Jeanne d'Arc, and about 100 Yellow Mammoth. There are also 70 Jetfire daffs strewn through the area, as well as clumps of 10 bulbs of various yellow or white/orange bicolors daffs here and there. I'm going for citrus colors accented with purples and loving the look! Oh, and there are 100 Crocus sieberii Tricolor in there too that are just about finished. I like to blend a combination of snow crocus and C.vernus hybrids (large flowered crocus) to get an extended season of bloom.

As far as planting them, I wanted them to look as random as possible, so I dug various sized holes and put 3-20 bulbs in each. You know how you see wildflowers growing in clumps with scattered seedlings around? Thats the kind of look I was hoping to achieve.