David wrote > ...when I buy Crocus sativus corms from Holland > every year, is it a foregone conclusion they > won't flower, or is flowering (that first year) > something I can have an effect on? In very late fall I bought a dozen / 12 SI at a local nursery. I don't know their origin, but I presume from Holland, since that is where this nursery gets most of its bulbs. They were already starting to sprout. I planted them and over half bloomed. Leo Martin Phoenix Arizona USA