{"id":107,"date":"2002-02-10T13:38:59","date_gmt":"2002-02-10T18:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2017-07-17T19:12:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:12:14","slug":"crocus-tomasinianus-whitewell-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/crocus-tomasinianus-whitewell-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocus tomasinianus &#8216;Whitewell Purple&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First flowers of the year opened on the Tommie crocuses today. These are the tiny crocuses with the huge name. They are tiny, even smaller than the <strong>Crocus chrysanthus &#8216;Blue Pearl&#8217;<\/strong>. I think that you must have to have a thousand of them before you&#8217;d even notice them.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nScott Ogden says that Tommie crocuses will bloom from mid-January to mid-March and that they are the one crocus to multiply in the southern garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0811719251\/qid=1125182343\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2\/102-2821109-0644901?v=glance&#038;s=books\">The Winter Garden<\/a> has a photograph of Tommie crocuses right on the cover. According to the authors, Peter Loewer and Larry Mellichamp (both of North Carolina), the Tommie crocuses are good for naturalizing because they seed freely.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve created a new plant profile page for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/crocusTomasinianus.html\">Crocus tomasinianus<\/a>, which has more information and references.<\/p>\n<h4>Garden History<\/h4>\n<p><strong>2000-12-28.<\/strong><br \/>\nPlant 90 Crocus tomasinianus &#8216;Whitewell Purple&#8217; (from my last garden.com order), in the mulch under the redbud tree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002-01-19.<\/strong><br \/>\nSome of the Tommie crocuses are coming up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002-02-10.<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst flower for 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2003-01-08.<\/strong><br \/>\nSpot the first Tommie crocuses nosing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/CrocusTomasinianus.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Crocus tomasinianus\" width=\"320px\" \/><br \/><i>Crocus tomasinianus.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}