Technical name for this beauty is colchicum which is in the lily family
It has no relation to crocus, in the iris family.
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Above, the buds are emerging from the ground in the same hole as their dead leaves did last spring.
There should be 3 to 4 times as many flowers as I see this year, because there were that many leaves a few months ago. Perhaps this summer was too hot for the bulbs. I understood these bulbs can take full sun, but apparently, I was mistaken.
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