Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are over 50 different types of spring-blooming crocus bulbs in colors ranging from white or pale pink and lavender to more ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - All of a sudden, it seems, in late winter come the first signs of spring - lawns loaded with pretty purple, light lavender or sometimes yellow or white crocuses. Crocus bulbs are ...

Crocuses are beautiful, cup-shaped flowers synonymous with spring. Colors vary from white to yellow to purples and multicolored blooms. Crocuses are some of the earliest bloomers in the garden, ...

You'll know winter is almost over when you start to see the first flowers of spring. Look for these 6 varieties that are surefire signs of the changing seasons.

Dear Master Gardener: I am designing a memorial garden at our church and was wondering about planting crocus bulbs this fall. There is a verse in the Bible that says, “The desert shall rejoice and ...

Crocuses are thermoperiodic plants, which means they rely on temperature cues rather than day length to dictate their lifecycle. Their corms (a type of bulb) also usually need a cold spell in autumn ...

Q: I saw lots of crocuses blooming this weekend. Did the early frost confuse them? Will they come back next spring? A: My guess is that you saw autumn crocuses, which aren't really the same crocuses ...

Just because summer is almost over doesn't mean we have to say goodbye to fresh floral blooms. While the spring crocus is noted as a herald of warmer weather, the autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale) ...

“September’s Baccalaureate – a combination is of crickets — crows — and retrospects and a dissembling breeze.” – Emily Dickinson. “September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, ...

Many garden enthusiasts are at all familiar with the Autumn Crocus — colchicum autumnale — a cold-hardy, perennial that blooms in mid-September in our area. That’s primarily because it rarely can be ...

Even among other little brown blobs — inconspicuous detritus such as abandoned cocoons, say, or concretions of lint — the bulbs of species crocus look unremarkable. When planted in the soil — as ...