Description
(Crocus serotinus salzmannii Erectophyllus )
A splendid old form which has been 100 years or more in cultivation and still going strong. An excellent form for cultivation outside, in the open garden where it will make large, soft violet flowers from September onward, if planted in a sunny, raised bed in a decent loam-based soil or compost. We give it a dry summer rest, but we don’t bake it, in fact it is perfectly happy in what seems to be becoming a normal summer in the UK.
An excellent cultivar of what is a very variable species, this has short, stiff leaves at flowering time (whence the name) but it is a good garden plant, easily grown and still around in cultivation from the time of E.A. Bowles who mentions it as long ago as 1924 and it seems from what he says that it was around in horticulture much earlier than even this.
