Reports of a single trial.
It takes about 4,000 crocuses to yield the 12,000 or so stigmas needed for a single ounce of saffron, and every crocus means a bulb that has to be planted (by hand, bent over) and then harvested, and then lifted (by hand, bent over) every second or third spring to divide the daughter corms, and then each of the daughter corms has to be planted (by hand, bent over).
For example, in the teaser trailer of the movie, he is intrigued by the beauty of a saffron crocus flower.
But if your back is strong and your desires can be satisfied with just a few dishes flavored with home-grown saffron (it takes the stigmas from 15 to 20 crocuses to make a single pinch of saffron), all it takes is a perfectly drained, full-sun site that bakes dry during the summer so the bulbs can lie dormant until fall.
A single act of love and, nine months later, this flowering, as mindless and senseless as a crocus bursting out of a bulb.
Peering into the heart of a crocus, I pine for a microclimate in a corner of the garden where I could grow a patch of crocus sativus, the saffron crocus.
"There'd be a shot of a crocus.
Verging on a parody of the Thunderbirds' Tracy Island, the tip was originally intended to open up, like the petals of a crocus, to reveal a helipad.
Walking down the sidewalk, I noticed the purple tip of a crocus just beginning to push out of the ground.
A cell in blastula division, a spiral galaxy, a crocus bulb, the 50,000 dancing atoms that make up a single period on this page -- such commonplace miracles are wondrously sufficient for my experience of metaphysical awe.
