An addition to Mike's comments on Crocus tommasinianus: This species is, as he says, commonly grown in the Pacific Northwest, where we both live. I have it in my bulb lawn, where it's perhaps the best crocus to grow because its leaves tend to lie horizontally rather than upright, so they don't get damaged once the area is mown. It self-sows, usually back to the typical light lavender color though I have two darker clones, roseus, and pictus there. Even when I lived in an area infested with voles, this species survived well because I had it planted in dense turf, and I recommend doing that if you have a lawn or other turfed area. It's very cheap to buy from mass-market bulb catalogues, even in the select forms, and the corms are easily planted with a sharp, narrow trowel, just lifting the sod, placing the corm, and patting it back down. If you don't disguise where you've been digging, squirrels will think another squirrel has cached a nut there and will dig it up. The star crocus of the bulb lawn at the moment is Crocus niveus, a large white flower. Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA On 10/21/2020 10:31 PM, Mike Rummerfield via pbs wrote: > Item 36, *Crocus tommasinianus* is seed, not bulbs (corms). It is my fault > for not indicating to Luminita whether it was seed or bulb in my email to > her. > > It is *seed* from a batch I collected for myself from various Crocus > tommasinianus cultivars that grow well for me here. > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>