I've been enjoying the everyone's early spring shows so much, and am thrilled to finally have some pics to show off. I'm sure many of you are just now seeing your crocus come in to full bloom, and I'd love to see 'em, please share!
While I've always been such a fan of bold color, I've found the whites to be among my favorite crocus. They simply glow!
Jeanne d'Arc
Love those crocus!! I will have to try some more this next fall.
They are the ultimate sight for sore eyes!
Yellow Mammoth:
There are some 'Ruby Giant' glowing in the sun in the background of this pic. Love em!
I put together my own little mixture of yellows to string through the path in this part of the garden.
Gypsy, Romance, and Cream Beauty:
Side view:
I mixed the bulbs up, and gave bags to a couple of friends and told them to just poke them in little clumps here and there:
I love this one!
Jeannine:
Yellow Mammoth, Jeanne d'Arc, and Ruby Giant in the lawn:
Simply lovely!
Neal, that last pic has inspired me to copy that setup for our property north of houston, zn 8. Can you tell me about how many bulbs you planted in that area shown in the pic. Also, did you plant various bulbs per hole, then on to the next hole; or do you have another system.
How long after spent blooms do you wait before mowing the area?
I will copy you, I will copy you.
Neal - you are amazing! You planted all those last fall? (Didn't you
just move into that property?)
Very pretty, Neal!!
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.
wow- you have really achieved a settled and lush look in such a short time! a real inspiration! a lesson in not holding back- sarah
Neal, thanks for the input. It definitely worked. I will plant in the same style. "settled" look is an excellent choice of word. looks so natural!
