I just got in from three and a half hours of pollinating crinums. So, these are being grown in Lancaster county PA. Since these are real 'Mediterranian climate plants and we have wet summers, we get much better blooming when planting on a slope. They do like a dry summer and do all their growing in the winter. The foliage has died back and won't grow again until they bloom late August or early September if I recall correctly. My friend keeps the voles out with cages made of quarter inch hardware cloth, but I have had good luck rolling out half inch hardware cloth on top of the planting with the edges extending past the planting and letting the weeds and saffron grow through it. It quickly becomes invisible. I control the weeds by spraying with glyphosate a few times during the dormancy. When I moved about twenty years ago I figured I'd see how bad the voles were here and didn't cover the several hundred bulbs I transplanted and I got one bloom the second year and that was the last I saw of them. tim On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 6:55 PM Jane McGary via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > I'm certainly interested in seeing these in the BX. I had only one real > success with saffron (Crocus sativus), but voles got them, and I never > managed to find corms that would flourish after that. Tim, where are > these plants being grown now? > > Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA > > On 7/1/2020 2:54 PM, Tim Eck via pbs wrote: > > All, > > A friend is going to take out a saffron bed and I will plant them but I > > should be able to spare a few hundred offsets for the BX if there is any > > interest. (That's meant as a question) > > tim > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…