(Translation) I have observed here that sparrows have shown a very considerable partiality for yellow crocuses during this spring. My neighbour and I vied with each other in our spring beds; he ...

By Phran Novelli. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - All of a sudden, it seems, in late winter come the first signs of spring - lawns loaded with pretty purple, light lavender or sometimes yellow or white ...

This year the carpets of crocuses in Glasgow were magnificent, although they were probably out a little later than usual. Over the past few years, I have noticed that there are far fewer yellow ...

In Washington, bees pollinate the purple, white or yellow crocuses that pop up in the spring and the pink blossoms on cherry trees. 2 Bees sting only if they think their hive is being threatened ...

As the summer garden winds down, it’s time to think about spring flowers, and the best way to ramp them up would be to plant bulbs now. We’re all familiar with tulips, daffodils and hyacinths ...

The first flowers of spring are often white or yellow due to what pollinates them: a broad range of insects, including flies. Flies don’t have colour perception, so they are attracted to ...

The Crocuses Are Up. By Francie Grace. March 11, 2002 / 1:31 AM EST / CBS ... we walked out in the almost warm March morning and the purple and yellow flowers had suddenly popped up. ...

While yellow crocuses bloomed in Hyde Park, and on Oxford Street bright bunches of daffodils sold for 7s.6d. ($1.50), Britain counted up one day last week and found that it had been at war for ...

The purple, lavender and yellow crocuses I bought on sale at a big-box store are just now peeking up and may or may not bloom. And I never bother with tulips, which have to be planted every year ...

CAN any of your readers elucidate this problem? When, a fortnight ago, the yellow crocuses flowered, the sparrows all at once made a terrible onslaught upon them. I found the gardener in Lincoln's ...