Crocus kotschyanus medium may work in paving cracks

may work in paving cracks

Spreads so to confine it

plus flower panicles

Moisture good drainage

Flowers early with bright buttercup waxy flowers

Crocus kotschyanus medium may work in paving cracksAutumn flowering, delicate, striated mauve crocus. Flowers before the leaves appear. Easy enough in garden conditions. From Central & Southern Turkey, NW. Syria, North & Central Lebanon so a preference for a drier summer. So perfect under shrubs as the roots stop it becoming too wet. The Pacific Bulb Society describe it as weedy. In some lights the flower colour approaches a delicate pink, and one can forgive a self seeder of such beauty. These bulbs