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Sunny Gardens℠ Lounge => Open Topic => : Sunny Gardens® October 12, 2007, 04:32:39 AM
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Sound gardening: Planting bulbs (Greenwich Time)
The sight of giant crocuslike colchicums blooming this time of year is a subtle reminder that bulb-planting season is here. The colchicums, C. autumnale, are teases. They are not what they appear, but members of the lily family. (The true autumn crocus is the saffron crocus - C. sativus - from whose stigmas that exorbitantly expensive dye/flavoring derives. Its flowers are not nearly as large, ...
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