Add soft garden beauty to your letters with these vintage unused Winter Garden Flowers series “Crocus” postage stamps! Featuring a delicate crocus bloom from the final booklet in the Garden Flowers series, this botanical design is perfect for wedding invitations, save-the-dates, thank you cards, shower invitations, birth announcements, spring mailings, garden-themed correspondence, and other meaningful snail mail. In pristine mint condition and valid for current postage use, each stamp holds a face value of 32-cents. These authentic USPS postage stamps are suitable for current mailing when used with the total required postage based on the weight of your mailing.

Purchase includes a total of TEN (10) mint condition postage stamps shown in the product listing photos.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Stamp Name: Crocus
• Stamp Series: Winter Garden Flowers / Garden Flowers
• Year Issued: 1996
• Face Value: 32-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Crocus, Winter Flowers, Garden Flowers, Botanical, Floral
• Color(s): Purple, Yellow, Gold, Green, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Spring Mailings, Garden Weddings, Thank You Cards, Shower Invitations, Birth Announcements, Botanical Stationery
• Printing Method: Lithographed and Engraved
• Scott Number: 3025
• Adhesion Type: Gummed (see adhesion instructions below)
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

GENUINE USPS POSTAGE: These unused vintage postage stamps are perfectly valid for use as current postage for mailing with USPS as long as you use the adequate amount of additional postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates at USPS.com.

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: This vintage 1996 Crocus stamp features a low-growing purple crocus bloom with slender green foliage, illustrated as part of a continuous garden scene in the Winter Garden Flowers booklet. The flower appears close to the ground, reflecting the set’s shared design detail of showing winter-hardy blooms growing from visible garden soil. Issued as one of five 32-cent Winter Garden Flowers stamps, the Crocus stamp was part of the final booklet in the Garden Flowers series. The booklet was first issued on January 19, 1996, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, with the stamps dedicated at Longwood Gardens. The series was designed by nature artist Ned Seidler, who created a single watercolor garden scene used across the five-stamp set.

FLOWER DESCRIPTION: Crocuses are low-growing perennial flowers in the iris family, known for cup-shaped blossoms that often appear in purple, white, yellow, orange, or lilac tones. Many crocuses bloom in late winter or early spring, making them beloved signs of seasonal renewal after cold weather. Crocuses are native across a broad region that includes the Mediterranean, North Africa, central and southern Europe, the Aegean islands, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia. They grow in varied habitats including meadows, woodland edges, scrub, and rocky slopes with good drainage. The crocus genus is also historically associated with saffron, which comes from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: Crocus flowers are often associated with renewal, hope, awakening, and the quiet return of beauty after winter. Because crocuses are among the first flowers to appear in cold-season gardens, they carry a gentle symbolism of resilience, optimism, and new beginnings. On mail, this stamp brings a graceful message of encouragement, fresh starts, and thoughtful beauty.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The Garden Flowers series began in 1993 and celebrated seasonal garden blooms across a sequence of USPS booklet issues. The Winter Garden Flowers booklet was the final release in the series and featured five winter-blooming or winter-hardy flowers: crocus, winter aconite, pansy, snowdrop, and anemone. The final booklet was issued on January 19, 1996, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. The stamps were designed by Ned Seidler, a nature artist known for his work with National Geographic, who created the watercolor artwork for the se-tenant garden scene.

GUMMED STAMPS: These postage stamps have a traditional moisture-activated gum on the back. These stamps require licking or wetting to adhere to envelopes or other surfaces. To ensure good adhesion, apply vintage gummed stamps to your mailings with a glue stick (we recommend using Elmer's "Re-Stick" glue sticks).

TELL YOUR STORY IN STAMPS: We’ve worked with hundreds of couples and their stationers to custom design highly stylized personalized postage sets based on our customer’s life stories. We can help you curate personalized vintage postage sets to commemorate your save-the-date, wedding, shower, announcement, and other special occasions in a truly unique fashion. Drawing on our encyclopedic knowledge of every stamp ever issued by the USPS, and sourcing from our extensive inventory of collectable unused vintage stamps, we’ll help you tell your unique story in stamps!

ABOUT HERITAGE POST HOUSE: Jennifer Kramer is the founder of Heritage Post House, a boutique vintage postage house located in Northern California. Jennifer sources the most beautiful unused vintage postage stamps ever issued by USPS and artfully arranges them into curated postage sets that are sure to add a special touch to your invitations, announcements, and special mailings. In addition to creating pre-arranged postage sets, Jennifer also works with couples (and their stationers) to create one-of-a-kind custom postage arrangements for wedding invitations, save the dates, and other special occasions.


Product Specifications

Length: 1.73 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 0.98 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.