CROCUSES have flowers like small, slender, upright goblets, made up of three inner petals alternating with three outer petals. The whole plant is not usually taller than about 6in (15cm).
The slender dark-green leaves have a fine white stripe along the centre, and both leaves and flowers spring from small corms, usually referred to as bulbs, not more than about 1in (2.5cm) across, with a rough, stringy covering. Each year, a new corm, or sometimes two or three, develop above the previous year’s corm as it dies away. Roots pull the new corm down to the right level.
“The flowers come in a variety of colours” Flowering is mainly in late winter and spring, and the flowers come in a wide variety of colours, although not including red, and there…
