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Wednesday, February 18. 2009

First crocus

First bunch of crocuses came up yesterday, hereabouts.


(Pedantic Editor's note: "Crocus" is the Greek word for "saffron." Saffron is from the Arabic word "zafaran" - yellow. While the pollen looks like saffron, it's the ground-up stigma of the Saffron Crocus which produces the herb Saffron.)



 

Posted by Gwynnie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 05:57 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hi, Gwynnie. We've had crocuses out for about a week here on the Northern Neck in VA. Snowdrops are out too. It's light snow here right now (0800EST) but it won't amount to anything, as we're above freezing. Cheers!
#1 dhmosquito on 2009-02-18 07:58 (Reply)
The first stuff up in Central Ohio is colts foot, around March 20.
#2 Ron Hardin (Link) on 2009-02-18 08:52 (Reply)
I've got a couple corcuses (croci?) showing. Also the first flock of redwing blackbirds showed up on Monday.
#3 Santay on 2009-02-18 08:53 (Reply)
"corcuses" Like... corpulent dead bodies? Better replant them.
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#3.1 Meta on 2009-02-18 11:00 (Reply)
Note to "Pedantic Editor" from another pedantic editor: And saffron is the most ruinously expensive of all the spices. But boyoboy does it ever taste good!

Marianne
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2009-02-18 14:36 (Reply)
Wasn't the Great Silk Road built on saffron? Just kidding, but saffron was considered gold and much of the trading from the far east was because of pepper and saffron. Pirate booty often contained saffron.

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#4.1 Meta on 2009-02-18 20:09 (Reply)
nothing yet in southern Ontario..
I'm hoping for snowdrops to come up.
..... in another week maybe?
#5 John the Skeptic on 2009-02-18 15:22 (Reply)
It's snowing here. No crocuses until late April, and nothing anyone could call spring until May.
#6 rightwingprof (Link) on 2009-02-19 13:53 (Reply)

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