To break dormancy, soak corms in tepid water for 8-12 hours before planting 2-3" deep. Wild in southeastern Europe and Turkey, in scrub meadows and rocky crevices.
3–6" tall. Early Spring blooms, Z5-9, 5cm/up bulbs.
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The Royal General Bulbgrowers Association in Holland (Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur, or KAVB) gives this large group of flowers the name Miscellaneous Bulbs. The expensive catalogs call them specialty or accent bulbs; some call them minor or dwarf bulbs (even though some of the fritillaries are huge!); Louise Beebe Wilder covered most of them in her 1936 classic Adventures with Hardy Bulbs. Whatever you call them, most are uncommonly sweet, delicate, colorful, and completely welcome in spring.