{"id":6309,"date":"2010-02-26T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2011-08-25T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T18:45:18","slug":"crocus-planting-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/crocus-planting-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocus Planting Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"crocus\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4386081228_d8198e9486.jpg\" alt=\"crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These crocus photos were taken at St Johns College, Oxford. Raindrops add a bit of interest though it is tempting to wipe the mud off.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Planting depth<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Plant the corms about 4 inches deep, with the wider bottom of the bulb at the bottom.<\/li>\n<li>Plant Bulbs about 3 to 4 inches apart.<\/li>\n<li>For best effect plant in drifts and mass plantings of at least a dozen.<\/li>\n<li>When Planting crocus, the best time is September or early October.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"crocus\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4385316845_3f8650e7b0.jpg\" alt=\"crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This same bunch of crocus has just been taken from a higher angle.<\/p>\n<p>Notice how it gives quite a different effect to take photo from ground level.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"crocus\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4036\/4385317021_9a56affc57.jpg\" alt=\"crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crocus In bloom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"crocus\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4025\/4385348653_fcc56c075f.jpg\" alt=\"crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An uncollected leaf adds a touch of colour.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/naturalised-crocus-growing-bulbs-in-grass\/\">Naturalised crocus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10671\">Crocus Tommasinianus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These crocus photos were taken at St Johns College, Oxford. Raindrops add a bit of interest though it is tempting to wipe the mud off. Best Planting depth Plant the corms about 4 inches deep, with the wider bottom of the bulb at the bottom. Plant Bulbs about 3 to 4 inches apart. For best effect plant in drifts and mass plantings of at least a dozen. When Planting crocus, the best time is September or early October. This same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/crocus-planting-depth\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}