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Product Description - Crocus Speciosus
The Crocus speciosus, or Showy Crocus, is a breathtaking gift for the gardener who wants to keep the landscape alive well into the autumn season. Unlike its spring-blooming cousins, this exquisite species arrives just as the days begin to shorten, producing large, open, cup-shaped flowers in a rich, vibrant blue-violet hue. The blossoms are distinguished by their intricate, darker-veined petals and a striking, bright orange feathery stigma, creating a high-contrast display that feels both exotic and refined. As a naturalizer, Crocus speciosus is incredibly effective, creating pools of color beneath deciduous trees or throughout rock gardens. It is a resilient, reliable performer that provides a magical sense of renewal just as the rest of the garden begins to fade.
Key Features
- Appearance: Large, luminous blue-violet blooms with delicate, darker veining and a prominent, vibrant orange, feathery stigma.
- Landscape Use: Perfect for naturalizing in lawns, woodland edges, or rock gardens; brings late-season color to areas that would otherwise be bare.
- Versatility: An excellent choice for containers or as a ground-level focal point in autumn landscapes, attracting late-season pollinators.
- Hardiness: A robust and dependable autumn-flowering bulb that thrives in well-drained soil, returning year after year to signal the change of seasons.
Product Details - Crocus Speciosus
| Price per package | €2,66 |
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| Subvarieties | Botanical Crocuses |
| Plant Height | 10-15 cm |
| Plant Size | 5/7 |
| Flower Colour | Bicolor |
| Indoor plant | No |
| Suitable as cutting flower | No |
| Hardiness Zone | Zone 3-4 |
| Leaf Colour | Green |
| Flowering Month | February |
How to Plant - Crocus Speciosus
Planting & Care Instructions
Crocuses are classic early-spring flowering bulbs ideal for borders, rock gardens, pots and balcony boxes. Low-maintenance and winter-hardy, they bring vibrant color to the garden year after year.
- Planting time: Plant the corms/bulbs in autumn, from September to November, before the ground freezes. Flowering time generally occurs from February to March.
- Preparation: No special pre-soaking required. Ensure bulbs are firm and healthy prior to planting.
- Position & soil: Choose a full sun to partial shade position. Plant in loose, well-drained soil. Avoid areas where water tends to collect.
- Planting depth & spacing: For standard crocus bulbs, size 5/8 cm, plant approximately 6–10 cm deep and 6–10 cm apart.
- Watering: Water once after planting. Keep soil lightly moist, but never waterlogged. Additional watering during autumn and winter is usually unnecessary.
- Growing in containers: Use pots or balcony boxes with drainage holes and a well-drained potting mix. Bulbs can be planted slightly closer together than in garden beds.
- After flowering: Allow the foliage to remain until it naturally turns yellow and dies back. This allows the bulb to store energy for the following season.
- Returning each year: Crocuses are winter-hardy perennials that naturally return and bloom for many years when conditions are suitable.
Delivery - Crocus Speciosus
Secure delivery across Europe
We deliver flower bulbs, seeds, perennials, roses and other plants to more than 30 countries across Europe. The standard delivery charge is added on orders depending on the country where you live.
To guarantee the best result and quality of our plants and bulbs, we dispatch all our orders at the right planting period. We monitor harvests in The Netherlands and weather conditions across Europe and start shipping our orders according to the following schedule:
- Summer Flowering Bulbs (dahlias, gladioli, begonias, etc.) - from 23 March until 1 July.
- Spring Flowering Bulbs (tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, etc.) - from 20 September until 1 December.
- Seeds and Garden Tools – all year round
- Roses, Perennials (except peonies), Bushes and other plants in pots - from 1 March until 1 June.
Product Reviews - Crocus Speciosus
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Quality guarantee. If the planting material does not meet quality standards.
A guarantee of variety. If the plant blooms in a different variety than the one you ordered.
A guarantee of grafting. If you have followed all the rules of cultivation, but the plant has not sprouted.
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