I was going to say "it's worth its weight in gold" but probably more!
Planted some last year but didn’t do much. Today surprised to see a solitary flower and duly harvested.
Plenty of other plants with leaves, hopefully flowers will follow. Anyone else grown some?
I was going to say "it's worth its weight in gold" but probably more!
Wow had never thought of trying that.
Any special greenhouse / heat Mat?
Excellent, well done that man.
We were Cheyping (Chipping or market) Walden before about 1540 and wool had been the mainstay, the saffron industry collapsed at the end of the 18th C and barley & malting took over. There is now a commercial grower of saffron in Walden again (well, quite near) https://www.englishsaffron.co.uk no connection and it looks like a schoolchild designed their website some 20 years ago :-)
Genuinely did not know it was a traditional UK grown product.
Wow at the website though!
As you may have guessed from Kingstepper’s original post it’s an autumn flowering plant (crocus) and is quite a bit bigger than the spring varieties. I must admit I’ve not tried growing it myself but then I do have brown thumbs in that I have been known to kill a spider plant. I normally restock on trips to Spain where it is somewhat cheaper than here, mind you with the recent travel restrictions maybe I should plant up a pot or two.
Sorry to the OP for hijacking, I hope the rest of his crop comes along as well as this example