Crocus sativus Maximum Height_2-4m Weather-resistant

Weather-resistant

A deserving holder of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit

this variety is fully cold hardy

These flowers are followed in quick succession by purple tinged seed pods in the Summer

rather than redcurrant juice smeared all around your mouth

Crocus sativus Maximum Height_2-4m Weather-resistantSativus produces in the autumn large cup shaped flowers of soft, lilac purple petals with yellow stamens and bright red stigmas. These three bright red stigmas can be dried and then used as the spice Saffron, the most expensive spice in the world. Flowerheads bloom from pale white to purple stems which develop from corms or a bulb like, base root. Devoid of foliage during the blooming season, grass like green leaves can be seen in the springtime. One