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Crocus

All the crocus we list in this catalogue flourish here at Lambley and are happy for a summer baking as these beautiful bulbs (with a few exceptions) inhabit summer dry places in the wild. Crocus grow, flower and seed during autumn, winter and early spring. By late spring they are resting safely below ground. This habit fits in well with our dry garden as most of the perennials are cut to the ground by May and aren’t in full stride again until the crocus have finished their growth cycle. I’ve bro­ken the list into two groups. The autumn flowering species and the late winter and early spring flowerers.

Crocus

Crocus chrysanthus

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Ard Schenk’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Ard Schenk’ is a vigorous and freely increasing pure white flowered cultivar.
3 bulbs for $7.00, 10 bulbs for $20.00

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Blue Pearl’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Blue Pearl’ is a swooningly beautiful crocus with pale blue inner petals, a yellow throat and lavender blue outer petals.

3 bulbs for $7.00, 10 bulbs for $20.00

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Cream Beauty’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Cream Beauty’ has rich cream flowers.
3 bulbs for $7.00, 10 bulbs for $20.00

Crocus chrysanthus ‘E.P.Bowles’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘E.P.Bowles’ has deep buttery yellow flowers with bronze feathering.
3 bulbs for $7.00, 10 bulbs for $20.00

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Gypsy Girl’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Gypsy Girl’ exceptionally good doer with bright yellow flowers and rich maroon feathering.
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Crocus chrysanthus ‘Romance’

Crocus chrysanthus ‘Romance’ has butter yellow flowers stained smoky blue.
3 bulbs for $9.00, 10 bulbs for $25.00

Crocus flava ‘Yellow Mammoth’

Crocus flava ‘Yellow Mammoth’ produces rich egg yolk yellow goblets.
10 bulbs for $12.00 or 100 bulbs for $100.00

Crocus kotschyanus

This Turkish species has been an exceptional doer here at Lambley where it has flourished in weedy unwatered rough grass for 15 years or more. It’s goblets of lilac flowers with a deep yellow throat are produced quite early in the autumn and with repeated flushes will go on, more...
5 bulbs for $8.00, 25 bulbs for $35.00

Crocus ochroleucus

This autumn flowering crocus grows wild in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine where its creamy white yellow throated flowers are produced late in the autumn. It flowers here at Lambley during late April and May. It grew here for many years in a rough neglected area. This little, more...
5 bulbs for $10.00

Crocus sativus - Saffron Crocus

This crocus produces the saffron of commerce, a precious spice worth more than its weight in gold. It takes in excess of 4000 flowers to produce an ounce of saffron which is the dried, long red style of this crocus. I grow it for the beauty of its large autumn flowers. It, more...
5 bulbs for $8.00

Crocus sieberi ‘Bowles White’

Thought by many to be the most beautiful white spring flowered crocus, this cultivar was raised by E.A. Bowles in the 1920s. I grow this species in drifts under Salvia nemorosa clones which are cut to the ground in May. The crocus grows, flowers (in August) and dies down by, more...
3 bulbs for $12.00, 10 bulbs for $36.00

Crocus speciosus

Crocus speciosus

A particularly beautiful and large flowered form of this autumn flowered species with large violet blue chalices for many weeks in mid autumn. This is an old named clone but I’m not sure what to correctly call it. I got it 30 years ago as C. Speciosus ‘Oxonian’ but it doesn’t, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00, 10 bulbs for $25.00

Crocus speciosus ‘Aitchisonii’

Crocus speciosus ‘Aitchisonii’ is the largest flowered of all the clones with lovely pale lilac flowers with very little veining.
3 bulbs for $9.00, 10 bulbs for $25.00

Crocus speciosus ‘Albus’

This fabulous pure white flowered form was collected in the southern Caucasus in the first half of the last century. Rarely offered in Australia.
3 bulbs for $12.00, 10 bulbs for $35.00

Crocus speciosus ‘Artabir’

A beautiful pale lilac flowered form with deeper lilac vein.
3 bulbs for $9.00, 10 bulbs for $25.00

Crocus tommasinianus

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Barr’s Purple’

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Barr’s Purple’ has large rich lilac purple flowers.
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Crocus tommasinianus ‘Lilac Beauty’

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Lilac Beauty’ has starry pale lilac flowers.
6 bulbs for $8.00, 25 bulbs for $30.00

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Roseus’

The most nearly pink of all crocus “.....almost the colour of peach blossom” also described as “.....cyclamen rose with a silver sheen”
3 bulbs for $9.00, 10 bulbs for $27.00

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Whitewell Purple’

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Whitewell Purple’ has purplish mauve flowers.
6 bulbs for $8.00, 25 bulbs for $30.00

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Yalta’

A large flowered Janis Ruksans selection with “silvery shaded outer petals and beautifully contrasting purple inner petals”
6 bulbs for $8.00, 25 bulbs for $30.00

Crocus vernus ‘Flower Record’

Crocus vernus ‘Flower Record’ is the best of the large flowered Dutch Crocus with glossy violet flowers.
10 bulbs for $12.00, 100 bulbs for $100.00

Crocus vernus ‘Grand Maitre’ - ‘Grand Maitre’

Crocus vernus ‘Grand Maitre’ has violet blue Flowers
10 bulbs for $12.00, 100 bulbs for $100.00

Crocus vernus ‘Joan of Arc’

Crocus vernus ‘Joan of Arc’ is pure white with contrasting yellow stamens.
10 bulbs for $12.00 or 100 bulbs for $100.00

Crocus vernus ‘Pickwick’

Crocus vernus ‘Pickwick’ has creamy white flowers with purple feathering.
10 bulbs for $12.00 or 100 bulbs for $100.00

Crocus vernus ‘Vanguard’

Crocus vernus ‘Vanguard’ is earlier flowering than others in the group with mauve purple inner petals and silvery outer petals.
10 bulbs for $12.00, 100 bulbs for $100.00
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