This rich spice comes from a fall-blooming species of purple crocus. When you buy a small container of saffron “threads,” you are purchasing the rich-reddish orange dried stigmas ...

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 ...

For almost 100 years, there has been controversy as to the possible parent species of the saffron crocus are. If the parent species were known, changes could be inserted into the crocus genome by ...

When happy, species types will multiply and can spread by self-seeding over many years. The traditional example of this is Crocus tommasinianus, nicknamed “tommies,” which are slender and pale ...

Species crocus in particular brighten the days — and moods — of late winter and early spring, because they usually bloom about two weeks earlier than their larger cousins, the Dutch or large ...

Crocuses (Crocus spp.) are typically one of the first flowers to appear in late winter in Greater Columbus, often poking their small stems out of a blanket of snow on the ground.

However, the minor bulbs, such as crocuses (Crocus spp.), squills (Scilla and Puschkinia ssp.), and grape hyacinths (Muscari spp.) emerge very early in the season and will fill in that gap well ...

“Behold, my friends. The spring is come. The earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun. and we shall soon see the results of their love.” – Sitting Bull ...