Saffron is a pricy spice harvested from a fall-flowering crocus. Learn how to grow it to harvest your own saffron.

Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world — but did you know you can grow it right in your own backyard? With a little effort and patience, Marin home gardeners can cultivate Crocus sativus, ...

Gardeners on the hunt for something special, novel, exotic even, might consider growing saffron crocus for a personal supply of the expensive spice saffron. The spice saffron is produced by the ...

SAFRANBOLU, Turkey — On autumn mornings between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15, workers arrive before dawn to painstakingly hand-pick the bright purple flowers that bejewel Ismail Yilmaz’s hillside farm in ...

The origin of C. sativus has long been the subject of speculation and research, as this knowledge would enable breeders to introduce genetic diversity into the otherwise genetically uniform plant ...