For 20 long days these workers will pick the saffron crocus from early morning until the entire crop of regal purple is gone. |
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He offers advice on crocus bulbs, liming the roses, putting coffee grounds on the chives. |
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The crocus, the cowslip and its near relation, the primrose and the other early wild flowers will soon follow. |
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Daffodils, hyacinths, crocus and other popular spring bulb flowers are also widely available now. |
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Today there is new crocus, white and yellow, yellow aconite, and a strange, small saffron flower, contained by broad shafts of weed. |
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But with autumn crocus and colchicum I extended my planting pleasure by several weeks. |
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There are two different types of fall blooming bulbs, colchicums and crocus. |
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The crocus was famous for both aesthetic and practical reasons in the ancient world. |
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So do bulbs such as winter aconite, crocus, snowdrop, Iris reticulata, and Cyclamen coum. |
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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. |
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The hoop petticoat narcissus, snowdrops, scillas, and crocus are perhaps the most delightful subjects for the purpose. |
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The daffodils are up but haven't decided to open their heads yet but there are plenty of snowdrops and crocus in flower. |
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Garden centres are supplied with spring flowering bulbs of daffodils, hyacinths, narcissus, tulips and crocus, but let's not stop there. |
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They won't eat daffodils and other narcissi which are distasteful to them, but they find tulips and crocus irresistible. |
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His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world. |
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A few inexpensive pots of snazzy red tulips, golden daffodils or purple crocus can brighten a dreary spring day. |
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The correct Latin term for spring flowering is vernal, as in Leucojum vernum, the spring snowflake, and Crocus vernus, the Dutch crocus. |
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The city will reap the benefit in the spring when daffodils and crocus give the city's parks and verges a splash of colour. |
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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. |
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One of the most special of the autumn flowering crocus is Crocus sativus, the saffron crocus. |
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The tulip is followed in popularity by the daffodil and other narcissi, the gladiolus, the lily and the crocus. |
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Plant smaller bulbs such as crocus, anemones and ranunculus. |
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It takes about 70,000 crocus blossoms or 210,000 stigmas to yield just a pound of saffron. |
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Our prairie crocus, as it's scientific name implies, is actually an anemone and it belongs in the buttercup family, the Ranunculaceae. |
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The stemless, crocuslike flowers bloom in autumn, and some are variously called autumn crocus and meadow saffron. |
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In bloom: Cornelian cherry, crocus, winterhazel, forsythia, glory of the snow, rhododendron, Japanese skimmia. |
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March blooms in the garden include the cornelian cherry, crocus, forsythia and Japanese skimmia. |
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Hold off on mowing the lawn in spring until the crocus foliage begins to die back. |
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Among these are the solid corms of the crocus and gladiolus and the elongated rhizome of some irises. |
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In the mid-14th century the saffron crocus was introduced to provide a yellow dye, and its name became attached to the place. |
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The prairie crocus is an early spring flower often seen pushing through the last prairie snow. |
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They also steal tulip and crocus bulbs from newly planted beds, dig holes in gardens to get at seeds and bury nuts, and gobble seed from bird feeders. |
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But you can actually buy and grow your saffron crocus, Crocus sativus. |
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I have spent enough autumns wandering around the fading glory of the summer garden kicking myself as I remember that I should have planted autumn crocus. |
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While everyone underplants trees with spring-flowering crocus, you don't see their autumn equivalent too often, possibly because the enormous corms are expensive. |
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Fairhanded Spring unbosoms every grace, Throws out the snowdrop and the crocus first, The daisy, primrose, violet darkly blue. |
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Saffron is the pistil of a crocus harvested by hand, then dried. |
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Don't confuse this delicious crocus with colchicums, often called autumn crocus or naked ladies. |
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It pushes its way quietly and resolutely, like the tiniest crocus in spring which raises the clod and thrusts it aside by the simple persistence of growing. |
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Bay Tree: £39.99, crocus.co.uk A little bay tree is the smart gift for the cook you love, or simply for the person who longs for some front door smartness. |
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In spring, willow and crocus flowers are the common source of pollen. |
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Hemlock, aquilegia, autumn crocus, laburnum and hellebores are all common plants, and all have different levels of toxicity. |
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It takes 160,000 crocus flowers to obtain just one kilogram of saffron. |
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The gladiolus and crocus are propagated by corms. |
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Even after hops were domesticated, around 700 A. D., they threw in wormwood, henbane, cowslip, ivy, mugwort, bog myrtle, elderberry, oak leaf, laurel leaf, autumn crocus, or wild rosemary. |
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The species vary but typical are those in the western American Arctic, which include the blue-spiked lupine, wild crocus, mountain avens, arctic poppy, and saxifrage. |
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Good specimens for naturalising in grass include crocus, narcissi, muscari, camassia, erythronium, snowdrops, scilla and ornithogalum. |
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Will know however that ingestion by your cat of certain plants like the rhododendron, the philodendron, the houx or the crocus of autumn are toxic. |
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Plant dwarf bulbs such as crocus in lawns and grassy banks and scillas and chionodoxas in pots. |
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Don't confuse this with Colchicum, often called autumn crocus or naked ladies. |
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Colchicum and autumn crocus should be planted out into the ground as soon as they become available to buy from your local garden centre. |
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Underplant with bulbs, crocus or diminutive daffodils to extend into spring. |
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As with beds and borders, underplant with dwarf spring-flowering bulbs, such as daffodil, crocus and tulip. |
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Hemlock, aquilegia, autumn crocus, laburnum and hellebores are all common plants you might find in your garden or in a hedgerow, and all have different levels of toxicity. |
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But for a show this year try autumn crocus and Saffron crocus. |
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Ideally, you won't mow the lawn again until around May so the leaves of the crocus have had time to photosynthesise and gather enough energy for next year's display. |
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The Dutch crocus, Crocus vernus, tend to be the bigger, showier varieties. |
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Bulbs to plant now include anemone, crocus, daffodil, Dutch iris, freesia, homeria, ixia, leucojum, lycoris, oxalis, ranunculus, scilla, sparaxis, tritonia, and watsonia. |
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