> My saffron crocuses never came up at all -- thought maybe it was a zone
> problem, but if you can get them to grow THERE, guess it was something
> else ...
I'm not sure they're technically hardy in this zone at all (I bought the
bulbs right when I moved, back before I was dead certain what zone Dundalk
was). One thing I'm finding here, though, is that a number of bulbs and
corms will grow that are not technically hardy in the zone, I guess because
of the heavy snow cover we get. I just found out that my neighbor across
the road has crocosmias in her garden that she brought (read smuggled I
think) back from england. My garden plants encyclopedia says they are only
JUST hardy in zone six and mulching them is advisable -- she says she does
not mulch, but they do sit under an average four foot deep snowdrift
November through April. (Yes, she gave me some, I'm hoping they will grow
for me too.)
(If your saffron crocuses never came up at all, though, I wonder if it is
the zone -- shouldn't you have got at least ONE show, the fall you put them in?)
Claire
Dundalk, zone 4b
cfanger@hurontario.net
