Saffron!

[wowomom]

Three years ago I bought some saffron crocuses from American Meadows. The day they came in the mail I planted them. The little grassy leaves came up but no flowers

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[ameliorate]

Wow, beautiful!

But you reminded me of my dream last night, that I had grown a gorgeous variety of irises and they were blooming... but now I remember that was just a dream :-[

But wow! Those are amazing, I hope they continue to do well for you.

[wowomom]

Thanks! There's 7 flowers out there now and a bunch of sprouts; I'm really excited.

[dark_phoenix54]

Those are so beautiful! And that's great that you have enough to make paella. I'd love to get some of those one of these days.

[wowomom]

I'm excited that there's enough to save this year. :)

[romani123]

Very fetching!

[wowomom]

Quite.

[rhodielady_47]

Any chance you could get some limestone gravel?
I'm told that saffron crocus likes some limestone rock in its soil.
:)

[wowomom]

I had not heard that.... I just figured it was the weather. I noticed they don't start to sprout until the temps get down into the 40s at night but once a really good hard frost comes along they don't put out any more flowers.

The last few years it's been hot until nearly November and then with in 2-3 weeks the temps would really drop off before many flowers had a chance to go for it.

This year it has cooled off a lot sooner (at least at night) so they started to sprout a few weeks ago and it's been chilly (high 30s) at night for the past week and so they've started flowering.

[rhodielady_47]

I really loved seeing your photos too.
:)

[klgaffney]

Oh wow, they look great!
Mine are only just starting to come up--I hope they have enough time to bloom, if they do at all.