Crocus well with some of the golden yellow Daffodils, and though they 
Pictures begin to flower so much sooner they generally last long enough 
to overlap some of the early kinds like obvallaris or princeps, and 
are relieved by the soft green Daffodil leaves, at that time only 
three or four inches high. The mauve Crocus Margot looks 
well with the early cream Cernuus, and this rather delicate 
Daffodil often prospers better in grass than in the garden proper. 
Anemone blanda will also grow in fine grass, and could have no 
more charming neighbour than a large clump of white Crocus 
which will serve to intensify its blueness. 
There are so many places where Crocuses grow and nothing 
else, that it seems a pity to continue the plan of planting them in 
a formal line down the edge of a path where their green is very 
untidy, and much in the way after the flower is over; but patches 
of them there must be in the borders, grouped with other early 
low flowers, as their range of colour gives one the opportunity 
of planning many little pictures: white, for instance, with C/zono- 
doxa or Iris reticulata, or with the early Grape Hyacinth. Ina 
long narrow border close under four big Elms which, owing to 
the roots of the trees, will grow little but bulbs, a ribbon of 
Crocus, daintily shaded from white to purple, twines every 
Spring through tufts of Daffodil green. In the autumn a 
very similar effect may be enjoyed by planting the blue-mauve 
Crocus-speciosus. 
Spring Crocuses are as hardy as possible, and demand 
nothing except to be planted three inches below the surface in 
October or November, and the reward is great as each tiny bulb 
produces three or four flowers five months later. The autumn 
varieties should be planted in July or August. 
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