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For 20 long days these workers will pick the saffron crocus from early morning until the entire crop of regal purple is gone.
He offers advice on crocus bulbs, liming the roses, putting coffee grounds on the chives.
The crocus, the cowslip and its near relation, the primrose and the other early wild flowers will soon follow.
Daffodils, hyacinths, crocus and other popular spring bulb flowers are also widely available now.
Today there is new crocus, white and yellow, yellow aconite, and a strange, small saffron flower, contained by broad shafts of weed.
But with autumn crocus and colchicum I extended my planting pleasure by several weeks.
There are two different types of fall blooming bulbs, colchicums and crocus.
The crocus was famous for both aesthetic and practical reasons in the ancient world.
So do bulbs such as winter aconite, crocus, snowdrop, Iris reticulata, and Cyclamen coum.
As far as planting goes, the smaller crocus should be planted so the tips of the bulb are two inches below the soil's surface.
The hoop petticoat narcissus, snowdrops, scillas, and crocus are perhaps the most delightful subjects for the purpose.
The daffodils are up but haven't decided to open their heads yet but there are plenty of snowdrops and crocus in flower.
Garden centres are supplied with spring flowering bulbs of daffodils, hyacinths, narcissus, tulips and crocus, but let's not stop there.
They won't eat daffodils and other narcissi which are distasteful to them, but they find tulips and crocus irresistible.
His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
A few inexpensive pots of snazzy red tulips, golden daffodils or purple crocus can brighten a dreary spring day.
The correct Latin term for spring flowering is vernal, as in Leucojum vernum, the spring snowflake, and Crocus vernus, the Dutch crocus.
The city will reap the benefit in the spring when daffodils and crocus give the city's parks and verges a splash of colour.
Early spring awakens with crocus and forsythia, and this is also your cue to take care of moss in the lawn with a spring feed and moss control.
One of the most special of the autumn flowering crocus is Crocus sativus, the saffron crocus.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Before the first crocus is out of the ground, you may look for the first chipmunk.
The finest Indian red, or crocus, usually undergoes a second calcination, in which it is exposed to a very intense heat.
He soon scorned crocus bulbs and even bread-crumbs, insisting on a diet of shortbread cake and nuts.
Into my sight through the irised, crocus mist swam the radiant body of Norhala!
Then, white crocus all over the fields, with Soldanelle and primula farinosa.
As the preceding, but employing mixtures of plumbago and crocus in various proportions according to the shade desired.
Try snowdrops, wood anemone, chinodoxa, cyclamen hederifolium, bluebells, Lleucojum, trilliums, Dutch crocus and some daffodils.
The oil of saffron, is extracted from the stigmata of the crocus sativus.
Try snowdrops, wood anemone, chinodoxa, Cyclamen hederifolium, bluebells, Leucojum, Trilliums, Dutch crocus and some of the daffodils.
Check out winter-flowering crocus, Spanish traveller's joy, and Michaelmas daisies.
There are seventy species of crocus, and many bloom in autumn.
And why should the year's first crocus have brought him luck?
The turf is starred with lilac gentian and crocus bells, but sparely.
I observed also a sort of crocus and some cheery little buttercups.
The so-called bulb of the crocus has a somewhat different structure.
And Aunt Plenty gave a perplexed shake of the head which caused great commotion among the stiff loops of purple ribbon that bristled all over the cap like crocus buds.
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