Sometimes to get your early spring garden ready, you need to start in the fall. A little work now will ensure bright, ...

There's treasure buried in the deep soil of Sequim - crocus sativus bulbs. They grow the flower that makes the most expensive spice in the world - saffron. Len Horst owns an organic gardening supply ...

A surefire way to become a millionaire: invent an easy way to get rid of weeds in your garden without harming other plants or wildlife. In the meantime, nature already has the closest thing to that ...

Dear Master Gardener: I am designing a memorial garden at our church and was wondering about planting crocus bulbs this fall. There is a verse in the Bible that says, “The desert shall rejoice and ...

Even among other little brown blobs — inconspicuous detritus such as abandoned cocoons, say, or concretions of lint — the bulbs of species crocus look unremarkable. When planted in the soil — as ...

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

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The lockdowns have been hard on old friends, banning meetings and turning them into virtual realities. In the ...

Just because summer is almost over doesn't mean we have to say goodbye to fresh floral blooms. While the spring crocus is noted as a herald of warmer weather, the autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale) ...