When it comes to garden, we always enjoy Martha Stewart's advice. This time she's sharing how to grow a beautiful bloom to ...

Did you know that the world’s most expensive spice comes from a type of crocus? It’s true. Saffron is derived from Crocus ...

Vivid violet blooms and a bright red stigma add color to your fall garden Crocus sativus, also commonly known as saffron crocus, is a member of the iris family. It grows from a corm, which is ...

And it can take 40 hours of hard manual labor to produce just 1 kilogram of high-quality saffron. Growing the plants isn't exactly easy either. David Smale: They're actually called corms ...

He says that it can take between 200,000 and 300,000 flowers to produce just 1kg of saffron. It all starts with the planting of corms, which look like bulbs. "It is a highly labour-intensive ...

Traditional open-field setups typically plant saffron corms or bulbs 20–30 per square metre density. In contrast, aeroponic systems can accommodate 200–300 corms per square metew ...

The saffron corms grow well planted under other plants. At Martha's farm, they're frequently planted under trees, such as her quince trees, 'Gravenstein' apple espalier, London plane, and smoke ...