A New Day – 55 – Crocus Blooms (almost)
Crocuses about to do their thing!
(Psst! Remember Day 49 & the Crocuses pushing up through the snow? Well look at them now!)
Here are just some of the things I love about Crocus:
They’re perennial
They are a very early spring bloomer (growing through the snow at times even)
They’re short but with showy 1-2″ flowers (as in my case)
They grow more abundantly each year
They’re easy to grow
Some people tend to go the route of annuals (plants that die after one full season), and who can blame them there are a lot of options. I myself would like to grow some more annuals this year, however my preference is perennials. If cared for perennials come back year after year often spreading out and growing in greater abundance each season. It is this last fact that has me particularly excited.
Sometimes when we plant things tend to look a little on the “arranged” side, at least for me. What I mean is that a couple of falls ago I planted an arching row of Crocus, as a opposed to a group of them which is sometimes recommended. So that when they came up it was literally a rainbow shape of individual Crocus. Sure it was nice given that little else flowers that early, but they kind of looked spotty. I realized then why they recommend planting some bulbs in groups with each other, so that when they come up they look like a little bouquet of themselves. Nevertheless, two years later now my Crocus are migrating themselves; where there was one before three or four are now coming up. Of course it’s not always a good thing when you’re plants do their own thing but I like to watch them take on their natural order, besides if I don’t like it I can always pull them up. Mine have at least doubled in number and they are no longer in my little arch row, which is fine because that looked too “arranged” anyways. But I’m so, so excited to see and know that they are thriving and growing well.
Plus, and negative, if I didn’t like their unruliness well their flowers don’t last past April in my case (which is also the negative). You can see some of their now grouped nature in my pictures as well as the subtle elegance of these small and very cherished flowers.
The beauty of spreading perennials
More flowers this year!
The other plants I’ve noticed coming up are:
Crown Imperial Fritillaria (two now coming up where there was one; 4 total)
Muscari
Phlox
Silvermound (artimesia)
Hyacinth (Yeah! Their flowers are so yummy smelling!)
Allium (one extra so far)
I’m sure there are others and I know there are other perennials whose old growth never completely died back and they’ve just been rejuvenating themselves. Very exciting! Now I just have to figure out how I want to expand these beds, what to plant and how to arrange the rest of the things I have planned for my yard!
What are your yard plans? What are you planting? And do tell, what’s sprouting/blooming in your yard?
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