Flower power: Crocuses bring a brighter spring

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Updated On Mar 18, 2017 01:16 pm IST

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A sea of blossoming crocuses covers the castle grounds in Husum, northern Germany. (Carsten Rehder / AP)

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A sea of blossoming crocuses covers the castle grounds in Husum, northern Germany. (Carsten Rehder / AP)

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With a fisheye lens shows a bee collecting pollen from blooming crocuses at the Botanical Garden in Karlsruhe, southern Germany. Most crocuses also have very bright stigma, often orange or red, which is very much part of their display. (Uli Deck / AFP)

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 01:16 pm IST

With a fisheye lens shows a bee collecting pollen from blooming crocuses at the Botanical Garden in Karlsruhe, southern Germany. Most crocuses also have very bright stigma, often orange or red, which is very much part of their display. (Uli Deck / AFP)

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Crocuses bloom in front of the Kurhaus one day before the gathering of the G20 finance ministers and central bankers in Baden-Baden. (THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)

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Crocuses bloom in front of the Kurhaus one day before the gathering of the G20 finance ministers and central bankers in Baden-Baden. (THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)

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A little dog sits in a meadow with crocuses at the banks of river Rhine in Duesseldorf, Germany. (Horst Ossinger / AP)

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A little dog sits in a meadow with crocuses at the banks of river Rhine in Duesseldorf, Germany. (Horst Ossinger / AP)

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A man walks past a bed of crocuses in St James's Park as Londoners enjoy the warm weather on an early spring day in London . (CHRIS J RATCLIFFE / AFP)

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A man walks past a bed of crocuses in St James's Park as Londoners enjoy the warm weather on an early spring day in London . (CHRIS J RATCLIFFE / AFP)

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Crocuses bloom on a meadow in Munich, Germany. For these spring flowers temperature is not as important as sunshine to them opening. If it’s cloudy, they will remain shut, but a splash of sun will bring them all wide open, and their interior is invariably more brightly coloured than the outside of their petals. (Matthias Schrader / AP)

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 01:16 pm IST

Crocuses bloom on a meadow in Munich, Germany. For these spring flowers temperature is not as important as sunshine to them opening. If it’s cloudy, they will remain shut, but a splash of sun will bring them all wide open, and their interior is invariably more brightly coloured than the outside of their petals. (Matthias Schrader / AP)

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A man rides his bicycle near a meadow with crocuses in Dossenheim, near Heidelberg, Germany. (Uwe Anspach / AP)

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A man rides his bicycle near a meadow with crocuses in Dossenheim, near Heidelberg, Germany. (Uwe Anspach / AP)

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Purple and white crocuses blooming at the Botanical Garden in Karlsruhe. (AFP)

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Purple and white crocuses blooming at the Botanical Garden in Karlsruhe. (AFP)

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A woman walks her dogs through a colourful carpet of over 100,000 crocuses at Wallington Hall near Morpeth in northeastern England. (Owen Humphreys / AP)

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A woman walks her dogs through a colourful carpet of over 100,000 crocuses at Wallington Hall near Morpeth in northeastern England. (Owen Humphreys / AP)

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