Autumn crocus, daffodils deter gophers. By Victor Yool Sep 19, 2001. ... The root and six hundred small nodules go down a foot and to get them all tests me to the max.

Photo/Lee GugliadaPretty Colchicum autumnale bloom at the Freylinghausen Arboretum in Morristown, New Jersey. Many garden enthusiasts are at all familiar with the Autumn Crocus — colchicum ...

Autumn crocus is worth planting if only to startle your neighbors. When they ask why your crocuses are blooming this time of year, just smile and say that perhaps spring has come early in your garden.

An emerging crocus is one of the first signs that a new season is right around the corner; this plant type has spring- and fall-blooming species, which means you can enjoy it for the majority of ...

This week's Plant Pick is a crocus look-alike called autumn crocus that sends up leaves in spring, then dies back in summer, then sends up flowers but no leaves in fall.

Try a personal spice nursery this autumn by planting saffron crocus! Ellen Peffley taught horticulture at the college level for 28 years, 25 of those at Texas Tech, during which time she developed ...

Crocus speciosus (Autumn crocus or Naked Ladies) Why you should plant it. If you buy and plant this beauty right now, you will have dazzling blooms in a couple of weeks.

Q: On my walk to the Ballard library, there’s a garden where crocus are in bloom now. Is there a kind that blooms in spring and again in fall? Do you know what kind of crocus this could be? A ...