Please ID These Crocus-like Flowers

Mar 31, 2006 3 Replies

Hi everyone: I live in Southern Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 2004 I had a new sidewalk put in front of the house - it faces south. In the fall of 2004 I planted crocus bulbs along the edge of the sidewalk, alternating bewteen yellow and blue.



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're now blooming for the 2nd season, and after a long winter, it sure is nice to see them. A pity they don't last long.



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right in the middle of the lawn little flowers have spontaneously sprung up that look like the blue crocuses I planted but they're slightly different.



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someone please help me to ID these "unsolicited" flowers, and suggest how they might have gotten there? I intend to be careful when mowing. Many thanks in advance.



Denny



I think they are crocus too, just a different variety. They look like some I planted last fall that have bloomed for the first time this spring. Maybe the squirrels planted them for you.

Jacqui

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They are crocus. Both yellow and blue varieites.

As for how they got spread...Crocus will disperse via seed like most other bulb plants.

Daniel B. Wheeler

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They are crocus. Both yellow and blue varieites.

As for how they got spread...Crocus will disperse via seed like most other bulb plants.

Daniel B. Wheeler

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