How to Replant a Crocus

Spring- or summer-flowering crocus plants provide low-maintenance color to garden beds. Crocus flowers grow from a corm. The corm is a swollen root system similar to a bulb in purpose. It stores nutrients and contains everything the crocus requires to bloom the next year. The corms produce new corms yearly, called cormels. These cormels eventually crowd the planting site and require division. Dividing and replanting the crocus corm and the new cormels every two to three years keeps the crocus healthy and gives you additional plants to add to your garden.

Instructions

- 1
  Break apart the corm and cormels. The cormels form as smaller corms attached to the sides of the main corm. Grasp a cormel in your fingertips, and twist it gently until it snaps off the main corm.
- 2
  Twist the top of the corm until it snaps from the bottom dead corm. Crocuses produce a new corm on top the old corm each year as the old corm shrivels and dies off.
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  Plant the corms in a well-drained, full-sun garden bed. Set the corms in the soil so the top, pointed end of the corm sits 2 inches beneath the soil surface. Space the corms 4 to 6 inches apart.
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  Replant the cormels at the same depth and spacing as the mature corms. Cormels may not flower for one to two years, since they must complete their development before flowering commences.

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