20 - Fridas, September 25, 1987. - North share News

Fali-blooming bulbs are an
inexpensive garden addition

ONE OF the most popular fall-
blooming bulbs is the autumn
crocus which bears the same
upright, bell-shaped flowers that
we normally associate: with their
cousins, those first flowers of spr-
ing.
Like

crocuses and colehicums, since
they should be planted earlier Can
spring- flowering bulbs,

In the warden, tiny cracus corms
should be planted only five to
seven centimetres deep and 10 cen-
timetres apart, while the giant cal-
chicum hybrids need deeper plan-
ting (10 centimetres) and much
more space between the corms (15
to 20 centimetres).

are ouvailable in
pinks, Javenders and whites and
one, called Waterlily, produces
gigantic double flowers that look
just like its namesake.

Colehicums also naguralize well,
especially in cool, damp places and
are fully hardy where snow caver is
200d,

August and carly September are
the time to purchase gutunin

Colchicums

the spring-flowering
crocus, fall crocuses are inexpen-
sive and easy to grow. So easy, in
fact, that they are probably best
grown as naturalized plantings in
Jawns and woodlands, where their
unexpected appearance out of
nowhere is all the more alluring.

Although they lack the wide
color cange of the spring crocus,
fall varieties are nonetheless
available in violet, lilac, soft blue
and off-white.

One variety to try is the saffron
erocus or Crocus sativus, which is
not only attractive because of its
beautiful filac petals, but useful as
well, as ifs bright orange stigmas
are the souree of saffron, the
world’s most expensive spice.

The common name of the col-
chicum is the autumn crocus, or
meadow saffron, but actually it is
not even a close relative of the true
crocus.

Their flowers are similar but are
usually much larger and a single
corm of one of the larger hybrids
can propagate to cover nearly a
square foot of garden with bloom.
However, once the foliage appears
in the spring, the differences are
obvious; the true fall crocus has
small, grass-like leaves, while the
colchicum bears much coarser
leaves, much neater to those of the
lily.

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