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    Crocus deals?

    Afternoon all,

    Does anyone know of any good deals on crocus bulbs at the moment? I'd be looking for about 100 I think.

    Cheers,
    MBE
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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    Price will vary with type of crocus but as an example j p Parker’s are selling 75 giant yellow crocus for £7.98 and 40 free mixed daffodils with every order. Of course there will some postage to add on.

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    • #3
      What sort do you want? large flowered, species, single colours, mixed colours?

      Large mixed colours 100 for 8.54 and free delivery

      Small species crocus, mixed colours 100 for £6.99 + P&P
      Last edited by mothhawk; 30-09-2018, 03:29 PM.
      Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
      Endless wonder.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by mothhawk View Post
        What sort do you want? large flowered, species, single colours, mixed colours?

        Large mixed colours 100 for 8.54 and free delivery
        That'll do me, ta.
        Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
        By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
        While better men than we go out and start their working lives
        At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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        • #5
          You can get 100 bulbs of crocus from about £4.50 from J Parkers Wholesale. I've just bought about 240 bulbs for £45 from them and about £18 in plants!

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          • #6
            Do different colour crocuses flower at different times?

            I've got about ¼ of the 100 I planted flowering, but every one is yellow.
            Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
            By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
            While better men than we go out and start their working lives
            At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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            • #7
              They can do. I find the yellow ones start first, then the paler yellow, white, then purple. But usually within a week or two of each other, so all the colours are eventually out together.

              It also depends whether they are the smaller flowered species crocus or the bigger flowered ones, which come up later.
              Last edited by mothhawk; 19-02-2019, 04:35 PM.
              Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
              Endless wonder.

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              • #8
                Yellow ones don't thrive here - the birds eat them. All mine are purple or mauve now.

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                • #9
                  Thanks. I've got plenty more to come so we'll see.
                  Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                  By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                  While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                  At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                  • #10
                    I've found it's only the light blue ones that self-seed. Any ideas why.https://www.flickr.com/photos/103667.../shares/H5KH1D
                    Riddlesdown (S Croydon)

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by DannyK View Post
                      I've found it's only the light blue ones that self-seed. Any ideas why.https://www.flickr.com/photos/103667.../shares/H5KH1D
                      How do the others propagate then? Bulb division?
                      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                      • #12
                        Yep, bulb division. I find that the Botanical ones multiply the best, that’s the small flowered ones.
                        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                        • #13
                          I've got a couple of purple ones showing through now.
                          Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                          By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                          While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                          At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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