Crocus Large-flowered Pickwick, rr 7/8, 7 pcs, autumn 2024

Crocus Large -flowered Pickwick - the height of the crocus is about 15 cm, a glass -shaped flower, white - lilac, striped. Crocus blooms in March - April for about 10 days.

Large -flowered crocuses are very prolific and unpretentious plants, which are decorated with really large gorgeous flowers: on average 2 more times than wild ancestors.

Planting place

for planting crocuses, places well -lit and warmed up and warmed by the sun.

The soil requirements should be light, nutritious and well drained, well Since the bulbs cannot stand stagnation. Like all onions, fresh manure cannot be applied to crocuses, in order to avoid the disease of the bulbs. Before planting, add special fertilizers for onion plants or compost to the soil. The crocuses are best growing on neutral or slightly alkaline soils.

planting

plant crocuses to a depth of 2 - 3 bulbs. The distance between plants is 8 - 10 cm. Over time, the bulbs will grow, and the flower carpet will compact itself. Batches of crocuses are planted in late August - September.

Care

Crokus care does not require much effort. In the spring after the appearance of the shoots, they need to be hidden and loosened. They practically do not need watering, since in early spring, after melting the snow melting moisture reserves in the soil, enough. But if the winter was low-blue, and the spring is dry, then watering is still needed. With a lack of moisture, crocuses will be low. But in the summer, in a period of rest, they do not need moisture. If the soil in which crocuses grow is well seasoned with organicism, then they are fed once when the snow still lies. Scatter the full mineral fertilizer and wood ash along its surface. You can grow crocuses in one place without digging them out for 4 to 5 years. But when the corms becomes crowded in the ground, the flowers begin to laugh and the plants need to be planted. Crocuses are dug in July. The bulbs are dried and stored in a dry cool room for two months, and when it comes, they are planted in the ground.