BX 471 Crocus clarification
Jane McGary via pbs (Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:24:29 PDT)

An addition to Mike's comments on Crocus tommasinianus: This species is,
as he says, commonly grown in the Pacific Northwest, where we both live.
I have it in my bulb lawn, where it's perhaps the best crocus to grow
because its leaves tend to lie horizontally rather than upright, so they
don't get damaged once the area is mown. It self-sows, usually back to
the typical light lavender color though I have two darker clones,
roseus, and pictus there. Even when I lived in an area infested with
voles, this species survived well because I had it planted in dense
turf, and I recommend doing that if you have a lawn or other turfed
area. It's very cheap to buy from mass-market bulb catalogues, even in
the select forms, and the corms are easily planted with a sharp, narrow
trowel, just lifting the sod, placing the corm, and patting it back
down. If you don't disguise where you've been digging, squirrels will
think another squirrel has cached a nut there and will dig it up.

The star crocus of the bulb lawn at the moment is Crocus niveus, a large
white flower.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA

On 10/21/2020 10:31 PM, Mike Rummerfield via pbs wrote:

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