Some of the earliest spring flowers, Crocus vernus are the familiar cup-shaped flowers you sometimes see poking through the melting snow. They're not really bulbs technically they grow from corms, the swollen bases of stems. But crocuses can be treated like the other spring-flowering bulbs for forcing. And besides, with such colorful and cheerful flowers, who cares if they're bulbs or corms? In addition to the well-known purple ones, you can get crocuses in white, yellow and subtly striped patterns. Like dwarf irises, they only need a little cold for best performance. Ten weeks is recommended, but they can get by with as few as six weeks. Hyacinth | Dwarf Iris | Tulip | Daffodil | Forcing Bulbs Provided By Garden Gate Magazine |