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11 of the Best Crocus Varieties for Your Garden
06.06.2023 - 19:54 / gardenerspath.com / Laura Ojeda Melchor
11 of the Best Crocus Varieties for Your GardenAround February of each year, snow is still falling up here in Alaska. Moose are trampling through yards, chomping all bits of soft willow branches and baby birch tree limbs they can find. (Yes, I’m still mad that they ate my birch tree.)
While it’s all very charming and beautiful, I start aching for color in February. So I usually run to the grocery store and pick up some candles that smell like spring – and flowers that look like it.
But what if in addition to my stunning store bought flowers, I had crocuses growing in my garden to gaze at, too?
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The addition of fresh flowers to my kitchen windowsill lifts my spirits every February. The promise of crocuses soon to bloom would make me positively delirious with joy.
So because I’ve been looking for varieties to plant in the fall, I’ve rounded up the 11 best varieties for your yard or garden.
If you find you can’t decide between them, why not get a mix of bulbs? There’s three options for those, too.
Quick Primer on Different SpeciesYou’ll notice that while all the blooms below are all of the same genus, Crocus, in the iris family, Iridaceae, not all are the same species.
In this list, you’ll find varieties from the following species:
Crocus chrysanthus, also called “snow crocus” because it tends to bloom at least two weeks before others in the same genus. C. tommasinianus, known also as “Tommasini’s crocus,” is named in honor of the long-ago mayor of Trieste, Italy (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Muzio G. Spirito de Tommasini. He also happened to be a botanist. You may hear this species referred to as
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