Park Seed Garden Journal

These elegant little flowers are the source of the world’s most expensive spice. The bright orange stigmas contain saffron. You can grow your own, and use it right in your kitchen. And, the beautiful lavender blooms will make a nice addition to any garden.

The Saffron Crocus was once grown as a culinary herb, medicine, perfume, and dye–now they are available for you to grow in your very own garden. Charming violet-blue flowers arise in fall–dainty and unassuming–you never guess they harbored such a rich history. The elongated orange stigmas contain saffron, the most expensive spice in the world, once worth its weight in gold in the ancient Minoan culture and medieval Europe.