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Home > Minor Bulbs > Crocus sativus: Saffron Crocus

Common Name: Saffron Crocus

Hardiness Zone: 6-8 S / 6-9 W

Height: 4-6"

Exposure: Full or Part Sun

Blooms In: Sept-Oct

Spacing: 4"

Ships as: Bulb


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Crocus sativus: Saffron Crocus

Shipped for Fall Planting

Item: S910891

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Grow your own saffron to use in cooking! We rarely think of bulbs as edible, but this showy fall-blooming Crocus is the source of saffron, the quintessential seasoning for paella and other dishes from the Mediterranean and Asia. Each lilac-purple flower produces three showy red stigmas, which have been used for flavoring and coloring food since Roman times. We provide instructions for harvesting saffron with every order, which doesn't obligate you to do anything more than enjoy the lovely fall flowers. Heirloom.

We ship fall Crocus in September. The bulbs must be planted right away so they may go about the business of rooting and preparing to flower, a process that generally takes 4-6 weeks.

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