orange pop

Autumn flowering Crocus speciosus.
So beautiful, so full of life, so sasha.

saffron beauty

Autumn flowering Crocus speciosus. I planted these bulbs 10 years ago. And each year I am enchanted. So beautiful, so sasha.

"[C. speciosus] is infinitely worth growing, all its ways are seemly, all its forms lovely." - Louise Beebe Wilder, Adventures with Hardy Bulbs (1936)

"... the first autumnal [crocus] to flower, and ... always startling when it comes bubbling through the earth, innocent of leaves, usually after a warm rain in late September." -LBW