In October 2016 I planted 100 crocus bulbs and waited with excitement for my carpet of flowers to arrive. Sadly by the following February the show was rather disappointing. I reckon that badgers had dug up and eaten many of them.

 

So in October 2017 I planted some more- about 50 or so, and I covered the area with exceedingly spiny cuttings from my berberis hedge- hah that showed them, apart from the fact that thespicky branches blew around the garden and kept having to be re-positioned!

Anyway it was all worth it as the crocuses have come up so much better this year. I am hoping that they will spread, as the snowdrops have, and that by the time I am old there will actually be a carpet of crocuses to enjoy.

In this unseasonably warm February they do look wonderful.