These cheerful little flowers are mildly toxic to pets. Here are the main care requirements for growing a saffron crocus. Want more gardening tips? Sign up for our free gardening newsletter for ...

A basket of purple saffron flowers - Fasil Tiru / 500px/Getty Images Growing saffron (Crocus sativus) at home can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to enjoy this luxurious and rather expensive ...

As well as a spectacular location, Pampore is India's centre for saffron - a spice so valuable that it is sometimes called red gold. Derived from the crocus plant, saffron fetches around $1,500 ...

It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply pleasure. Bulb-like corms, at top, produce saffron crocuses.

Each crocus has three small stigmas that have ... of hard manual labor to produce just 1 kilogram of high-quality saffron. Growing the plants isn't exactly easy either. David Smale: They're ...

This spice is definitely costly, but for very good reason. It has a taste like nothing else out there, and for fans of the ...