Autumn Crocus
- Botanical Name
- Colchicum spp.
- Hardiness
- Zones 4 to 9
- Height
- 6 to 12 inches
- Flowers
- Fall: white, rosy-purple, pink
- Light
- Full to part sun
- Soil
- Fertile and moist
- Planting & Care
- Plant in late August
- Set bulbs 3 inches deep and 6 inches apart
- Divide every 3-4 years to speed up the spread
- Problems
- None serious
- Varieties
- Alboplenum - white, double, star-shaped flowers
- Giant - one of the tallest and largest flowering of the autumn crocus, lavender-rose flowers sporting white throat
- Waterlily - lavender-pink double flowers resembling a waterlily bloom
- Violet Queen - pinkish or reddish purple checkered with white lines in the throat, orange anthers
- Lilac Wonder - narrow amethyst blooms
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