There is something about autumn crocus that induces amnesia. \u00a0I know where I planted the bulbs of the blue and white-flowered Crocus speciosus and Crocus speciosus \u2018Albus\u2019 this year, but I have completely forgotten where I installed crocuses in previous years. \u00a0This only happens with the fall-blooming kind.\u00a0 I can tell you where all the spring crocuses live, even though it has been months since the last of their grassy foliage died away.<\/p>\n
Fortunately I can stand this kind of amnesia. \u00a0The forgotten fall bloomers spring up like annual surprises and, though they don\u2019t increase the way the spring crocuses do, their numbers are growing slowly. \u00a0It\u2019s a small miracle to discover one or two as I rake leaves or yank out the five hundredth perilla mint stalk. \u00a0The crocuses, which cannot be anything but cheerful, take the edge off the idea of the fast approaching frosty nights and gray days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is something about autumn crocus that induces amnesia. \u00a0I know where I planted the bulbs of the blue and white-flowered Crocus speciosus and Crocus speciosus \u2018Albus\u2019 this year, but I have completely forgotten where I installed crocuses in previous years. \u00a0This only happens with the fall-blooming kind.\u00a0 I can tell you where all the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[253,455,267],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-general-interest","tag-autumn-crocus","tag-crocus-speciosus","tag-fall-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}