Hello All, I've just taken the time to read all the Saffron posts that started (on my computer) at 4:51 yesterday evening and are last noted at 9:12 this evening. What a wonderful and fascinating exploration of a subject, from the ridiculous to the delicious! (I should state that I enjoyed the ridiculous as much as the delicious posts) This has been a fascinating, international, stream of consciousness compendium of personal, academic, historic, culinary, horticultural, and botanical riffs on the general subject of an autumn blooming Crocus. Totally kewl! Bravo! Brook Klehm (Seattle, where the Crocus sativus are blooming enthusiastically in the community garden just to the south of my new home)