The part of the plant you actually eat -- the vivid crimson stigmas -- produce saffron, the world's most coveted and expensive spice, and they come from just one plant: Crocus sativus. These stigmas ...

Saffron Crocus, Crocus sativus If you do a search for the top ten most expensive spices, you’ll find a varied list. However there is one spice that is always at the top of that list: saffron. Saffron ...

The cheerful color of saffron crocus graces the garden from September to November. What's more, you can harvest your own saffron -- the world's costliest spice -- from the flowers.

There's treasure buried in the deep soil of Sequim - crocus sativus bulbs. They grow the flower that makes the most expensive spice in the world - saffron.

The father of Alexander the Great, King Philip, won a great battle in Thessaly in northern Greece in the year 352BC on a site called the Crocus Field. The flowers may have been over but the ...

Focus on Flowers is a weekly podcast and public radio program about flower gardening hosted by master gardener Moya Andews. ... Earliest Spring Crocus. By Moya Andrews Posted March 8, 2012.

Flowers offer all sorts of cues to their pollinators—colors, patterns, shapes, and scents all help plants communicate with butterflies, bats, birds, and bees. But recent research suggests that ...

Crocus flowers just barely push out through the snow in March 2020 in Pittsfield — a harbinger of spring we'll hopefully see again soon. Stephanie Zollshan; ... Did you ever see a field of crocuses?

But the flower has struggled with a changing environment. Recent surveys, which record sightings in 1km (0.62 miles) squares, show that prior to 2003, the Nottingham Spring Crocus was recorded in ...