Crocus Fall Flowering Saffron 12/Bag

Saffron - Fall-Flowering Crocus 
Crocus sativus

Grow your own Saffron! The most expensive herb in the world comes from fall-blooming Crocus - the sweet lavender-purple flowers are always a welcome sight in autumn. Harvest the orange-red stigmas and use them fresh or dried to amp up your culinary creations to the top level. The pretty blooms open during the day and close up at night.

Lovely massed, also a great choice for a front border to make harvesting easy; they also do well in containers. They flower when many other plants have finished for the year. 

Crocus sativus are happiest in rich, organic soil. Plant them with vole-bloc to protect them from voles and other small rodents.

🌞Sunlight - best flowering in full sun (6-8 hours of direct sunlight).

💚Plant Nerd: Saffron has been cultivated for at least 3500 years across multiple cultures across the world, and is the result of ancient plant-breeding practices. Interestingly, it does not exist in the wild. Saffron has also been prized for use in herbal medicine, as a natural botanical dye, and in cosmetics. Cleopatra of Egypt famously added Saffron to her bathwater, believing it enhanced her beauty. 

The orange-red stigmas are rich in carotinoids.