Tips To Grow Crocus Flowers
Anyone who loves gardening would also like to plant crocus flowers to see the sprouting blooms in the early spring and to add colorful shades in their garden to make it look more beautiful. Crocus flowers are a genus of perennial flowering plants, blooming in the spring with the arrival of rains after summer's heat and drought and offering pleasure to the eyes of its onlookers and planters. It is native to coastal and sub alpine areas of Central and Southern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and across Central Asia to western China.
Crocus plants brighten up the landscape when flowers bloom and one can see flowers in varied colors ranging from white, yellow, blue, and light orange. Lilac, mauve, yellow and white are predominantly visible when one sees the sprouting blooms of the crocuses. They appear mostly as grass-like leaves with slender points and sharp edges, slightly tapering like a sword blade. One can also notice a white central stripe along the leaf axis. Crocus plants grow from corms and are mainly hardy perennials, not having a growth of more than three to four inches. It is found in a number of habitats such as woodland, scrub and meadows and can also be grown in the garden.
Steps for planting crocuses:
Here are some tips of how crocus flowers can be grown:
a) First and foremost, you need to select a site in your backyard where you would choose to grow your crocuses. The site chosen should receive adequate sunlight and the soil there must not be excessively wet or soggy. Selecting a good spot will help attract people's attention to your garden when the crocus flowers first blooms in spring.
b) Once the spot is chosen, prepare the soil by loosening it and add some coarse sand or fine gravel to the soil in order to help the cause of drainage. Providing a rich soil bed will help crocus flowers to bloom on time.
c) Adding fertilizers for bulbs will also make the soil a rich flowering bed, suitable to grow crocus flowers. One also needs to ensure that different fertilizers are mixed well so that soil-bed is well-prepared for prolific growth of crocus flowers.
d) Planting the crocuses five inches deep will be an ideal setting for flowers to bloom but it can be set more deeply if the soil is sandy. In order to give more space to crocus flowers to grow, planting the corms or bulbs on the soil either in singles or in groups will help.
e) Bulbs could be planted with the help of a bulb planter or a trowel. It is advisable that bulbs be planted about two inches deep, above a thin layer of fertile soil.
f) The tip of the crocus flowers shoots upwards and the bottom is flat. One need not check which side it is up during crocus flower care and planting. Moreover as it possesses crocodile roots, the crocuses can adjust their position downward.
Follow these steps to plant crocus plant corms and see your garden bloom and brighten up during rains in various shades when crocus flowers bloom.