CROCUS HUMMINGBIRD

Perennial plants with one of the brightest and earliest spring. They survive brief drops in temperature in early spring, flowers pop up even through the snow. Growing in small groups of 10–15 bulbs looks best. Crocuses can grow under the trees and with other perennial flowering plants. Soil must be light, humic, well-cultivated, weedless, sufficiently moist, but not inclined to soaking. Crocuses are grown in flower beds, pots, flowering lawns. Flowers are 3–6 cm in diameter. Plants stay in soil over winter, can grow in the same place for years.