A Light Bulb Moment
My relationship with silvery-mauve Crocus tommasinianus has, until now, been simple. I love its early spring reliability and often use it in clients’ gardens. It is cheap to buy and so uplifting planted generously in an undulating ribbon to illuminate a February border.
It is also wonderfully effective planted in grass. In my own front garden I around a multi-stemmed magnolia. I love the way the crocus foliage emerges suddenly each year from the expanse of lawn, at first a silvery sweep and then, on the first really sunny day, socking it to the street with an uplifting arc of purple that literally stops passers-by in their tracks.
