Dutch Crocus, Giant Crocus, Spring Crocus 'Yellow Mammoth'

Today's show in my scree reminds me that these guys bloom just a little bit ahead of the Crocus vernus. These guys popped in last week's...Read More warmer weather. Today, I found shoots from C. vernus budding. Yellow Mammoth give more flowers to a shoot as well, more like the snow crocus- also narrower leaves.

This is one of the few crocus that, in my opinion, really have presence in the garden. Very bright and large-flowered. Mine are planted n...Read Moreear the house so I can see them from the windows, but they can be seen all the way from the street, too.

Sold by Van Engelen as "Crocus flavus Yellow Mammoth".

The Pacific bulb society writes of c. flavus "This is a wild, or ...Read Moretypical, form of the commonly grown early spring yellow crocus. Usually seen in gardens in the larger sterile form 'Golden Yellow' (syn. 'Dutch Yellow', 'Yellow Mammoth')."