While mowing the front lawn today I nicked the top of the first Crocus speciosus of the year. In another part of the garden, self-sown Crocus kotschyanus has been in bloom for about a week. Neither of these is purple. : ) Jim McKenney jimmckenney@starpower.net Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where I now have an excuse not to mow the lawn for about a month.