As some of you may recall, I planted about 1100 crocus beneath the West Meadow fence line last fall.  So far, it appears that the experiment is reasonably successful.  The color balance is a bit off; right now it is dominated by gold and white, rather than the purple and blue shades, which is a bit baffling as there are more of the latter.  However, they may be a touch later in flowering.  I have at least five different species out there, plus the much later crocus vernus (the big one), so the bloom time should run for over a month.*  Rodents haven’t been too much of a problem, though something went along and tasted every single one of the light cream/gold ones.  They didn’t eat them, mind you, just bit the top half of the flower off and spat it out…repeatedly.

It will be interesting to know how they work in the long term.  They are interplanted with daylilies, which I have never seen anyone else do.  However, because crocus form new corms from the top of the older corm, rather than the side/bottom like daffodils and lilies, they should remain up above the root mass of the daylilies.  And hopefully they will spread out into the lawn and meadow.

One definite conclusion of course…I could use more.

*the HOT, dry weather is screwing over bloom times.