As soon as the first rays of sun warm the ground, crocuses push their delicate blooms into the light, adding color to gardens still weary from winter. These small early bloomers are considered ...

Crocuses are thermoperiodic plants, which means they rely on temperature cues rather than day length to dictate their lifecycle. Their corms (a type of bulb) also usually need a cold spell in autumn ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the first rains began in autumn, lilac-blue flowers thrust up through my lawn on bare stems, crocuses I ...

Every spring, when the crocuses pop up, a question pops up: How do you form the plural of “crocus”? Is it “crocuses” or “croci”? Most dictionaries endorse both forms. “Crocuses” is the most common ...