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Crocus 'Cream Beauty'

Fragrant Early Spring Colour With Award-Winning Hardy Crocus Bulbs Loved By Pollinators
Crocus Cream Beauty
30 x Bulbs   |   SKU: 600561
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Key Features

  • RHS Award of Garden Merit winner producing fragrant creamy flowers with golden throats from late winter into early spring
  • Earlier flowering than many traditional crocus varieties, bringing cheerful colour even when your garden looks bare and tired
  • Fully hardy perennial bulbs that can naturalise and return year after year when left undisturbed
  • Excellent for spring containers, rockeries, window boxes, border fronts and planting beneath deciduous trees or shrubs
  • Supplied as 30 bulbs, size 5/7, ready to plant for early spring colour
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Description

Add a graceful lift to your garden for the first weeks of spring with Crocus 'Cream Beauty' - this is a hardy, fragrant variety that brings soft colour just when the garden needs it most. Creamy blooms, golden throats and neat grassy foliage make a beautiful contrast to the bare soil, dormant borders and quiet patio pots of late winter and early spring.

This crocus holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit and is also recommended as a 'Plant for Pollinators', so you can count on them to perform and draw beneficial insects to your garden. It flowers earlier than many larger crocus varieties, making it especially useful for extending the season and creating colour before many spring favourites get going.

Plant these bulbs in groups for the most natural effect. They work brilliantly in containers, rockeries, window boxes, border fronts and beneath deciduous trees or shrubs. Fully hardy and perennial, they can settle in and return in future years when left undisturbed.

Supplied as 30 bulbs, size 5/7, ready to plant.

Top Tips
  • For a natural look, throw a handful onto a grassy area and then plant them where they fall.
  • Which way up? Pointy end up and the flat end at the bottom, but don't worry, they soon right themselves in the ground anyway.
Care Information

Planting Advice for your Crocus Bulbs:

  • Plant bulbs at twice the depth of the height of the bulb and four times their width apart. e.g. 5cm tall bulbs need to be planted 10cm below the surface of the ground and 20cm apart.
  • Please check the bag for any additional planting instructions.
  • They are fine to plant even if a little green growth is showing, they'll just need a good watering when you plant them, and then only when the soil is dry.
  • Leave them in the ground once they die back and they'll come back bigger and better each year.
  • While all the energy that a bulb needs in order to grow is stored in the bulb itself, they will do better if you feed them when in active green growth.
  • Plant in herbaceous borders, in pots, or leave in the ground to naturalise.
  • If planted in pots be sure to water frequently and keep moist.

Aftercare Advice for your Crocus:

  • Spring-flowering bulbs should be planted in the autumn for displays next season. This allows them to establish a good root system before the weather becomes too cold.
  • Plant in herbaceous borders, in pots, or leave in the ground to naturalise.
  • Water frequently and if in posts ensure that the compost doesn't dry out.
  • Use a good quality potting compost such as our premium professional compost for the best result

Cutting your Crocuses Back:

  • Leave foliage to die back naturally after flowering, and if naturalised in grass, don't cut it until the leaves have yellowed.
  • This allows as much energy as possible to go back into the bulbs for the following year. Only cut back the foliage once it has turned yellow or brown.
Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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Size Guide
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Pro Plug
Small Plugs

Size:
Height 4-6cm

Ease:
Easy

Grow On?:
Yes

Pro+ Plug
Medium Plugs

Size:
Height 5-7cm

Ease:
Easy

Grow On?:
Yes

Plugs
Plugs

Size:
Height 8-12cm

Ease:
Easy

Grow On?:
Yes

Jumbo Plugs
Plugs

Size:
Height 10-20cm

Ease:
Easy

Grow On?:
Yes

Garden Ready
Garden Ready

Size:
Height 14-20cm

Ease:
Easiest

Grow On?:
Not Necessary