Feed them as well as thin them Kathleen. Compost would help. (Incidently Crocus have corms not bulbs) Peter (UK) On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Kathleen Sayce <ksayce@willapabay.org>wrote: > Rimmer's comment on crocus reminded me that yesterday I was digging up > what I thought was a mass of Ornithgalum with a few crocus, and to my > surprise, it was a mixed mass of mostly Crocus with a few Ornithogalum. > There were many small crocus bulbs in there. > > Should I sort out the bulbs, replant the larger ones and do something else > with the rest? Or are there crocus lines that stop flowering, and so should > be removed? > >