They're autumn-flowering and they probably won't flower this year - but there's always one...;-(. Pop them into a mix that is guaranteed to dry out. They hate being left in the wet over their dormant time (spring to autumn). The leaves will come up soon and stay over the winter. Keep them moist-enough while they are growing. Around April they will start looking yellow - just like the other autumn crocuses. Let them dry off and keep them away from your summer watering system. Plant in September. Watch anxiously. Wait for those beautiful little cups with the amazing orange-y tassels and go 'Aaah' (I do!) I have this sort of memory that saffron is like tuber rose and tulip - the bulb flowers once then breaks into daughter bulbs and has to grow on to flowering size. Somehow you need to develop a 'succession' system so there are always some coming into flower and some growing up to size each year.

Hi! I do not have bulbs to trade, but I do have seeds. I have home grown Serrano, Ghost (Bhut Jolokia), Wiri Wiri, and Scotch Bonnet peppers. All have produced and given me nice peppers I have used. They were open polinatd, but only those peppers were grown so I assume they lost no heat. Hand dried I can give quite a few, so if you want 10 seeds or 50, just ask. I also have a couple year old seeds of other plants if it interests anyone. Onion flavor chives, California Wonder 300tmr Bell pepper, Salad Blend, Spinach, Vates Non Heading Collards, Garlic Chives, and yellow crimson watermelon. A few bulbs will be appreciated a lot. As well if you have any experience with it what is your best advice to grow it in containers here in central florida.

I can find quite a bit of the wild stuff, but certainly couldn't afford to send that much. Chicory, plantain, fireweed, Purslane, wood sorrel, Solomon's seal (false?), some type of gooseberry (wild ones, when I go to Idaho) Jerusalem artichoke, red alder, skunk cabbage--maybe, kinnikinnick, MAYBE serviceberry, wild ginger (certainly not 40 of them, though), possibly Oregon grape, bedstraw, burdock, not sure on monkeyflower, cascara, snowberry, all heal, yarrow, yellow violets, Virginia creeper, maybe nuphar polysepalus, wild strawberries (fragaria virginiana and chiloensis).

Leave them be. They'll be fine. Mine always were when I lived in Long Beach, CA.