Mary R wrote: John, I would like to know how you managed to have sufficient flowers to be able to harvest the saffron?
I just had a modest pot of plants & picked the styles as the flowers faded - you don't need much saffron in most recipes. John Grimshaw Visit John Grimshaw's Garden Diary http://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.com/ Dr. John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Tel. 01242 870567 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Randall" <[email protected]> To: "Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society;postings copyright by authors." <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [Alpine-l] a bit of rock garden history John, I would like to know how you managed to have sufficient flowers to be able to harvest the saffron? Mary Ridley, Broughton, Hampshire, England Zone 8 ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of John Grimshaw Sent: Thu 13/01/2011 08:28 To: Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society;postings copyright by authors. Subject: Re: [Alpine-l] a bit of rock garden history Jan Jeddeloh wrote: > Just out of curiousity does anyone know if you can harvest the stigmas of > C. cartwrightianus and use them in place of saffron? Just wondering. I have harvested & used the styles of C. cartwrightianus for culinary purposes - there's no difference from normal saffron except that they're shorter in length so you need more of them. John Grimshaw Visit John Grimshaw's Garden Diary http://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.com/ Dr. John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Tel. 01242 870567 _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Alpine-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l > _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
