tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post686181246689053441..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Saffron WaldenLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-29372611765461922682011-10-28T15:02:38.116+02:002011-10-28T15:02:38.116+02:00You do a good job of rendering what might be senti...You do a good job of rendering what might be sentimental and ye olde England, Lucy! <br /><br />I remembering writing a paper in graduate school that had much to do with saffron and Saffron Walden and some literary work. For the life of me, I cannot remember what it was. But enjoyed your tour. Love the way the enterprise colored architecture. I always liked the way the Corinthian columns on Playmaker's Theatre in Chapel Hill, NC included tobacco leaves...marly youmanshttp://thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-68791103734206568492011-10-23T20:43:10.038+02:002011-10-23T20:43:10.038+02:00Earlybird, thanks for that lovely link, very inter...Earlybird, thanks for that lovely link, very interesting and some beautiful images. The flower is more like the heraldic one (except the leaves!) in that the stamens really do stand out proud from the flower. Some interesting recipes too.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-1219392939130168092011-10-23T10:25:57.246+02:002011-10-23T10:25:57.246+02:00You might find this link interesting, Lucy, http:/...You might find this link interesting, Lucy, http://www.safranroyal.com/<br /><br />It's less than an hour's drive from where I live - sadly I couldn't go to the fĂȘte last Sunday.earlybirdhttp://mangetoutetc.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-58411918476744366592011-10-22T22:21:45.103+02:002011-10-22T22:21:45.103+02:00i think you're right, Lucy...the artisans who ...i think you're right, Lucy...the artisans who created the beautiful woodwork must have been using colchicum for their reference.<br /><br />i can only imagine the extreme backache caused by bending over thousands of crocus when it was time to harvest! Perhaps that is why it is not grown commercially there anymore...it became impossible to hire people willing to do that back-breaking work.zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-88532843919395155412011-10-22T16:15:54.933+02:002011-10-22T16:15:54.933+02:00All your photographs are beautiful, but your colla...All your photographs are beautiful, but your collages are particularly beguiling. Little wordless stories. I'd like to frame them and put them on my walls.<br />- alisonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-38176216096314215352011-10-22T11:49:58.896+02:002011-10-22T11:49:58.896+02:00Lovely post. Thank you. The church woodwork is rat...Lovely post. Thank you. The church woodwork is rather wonderful. Had the local ladies echoed the motif in their kneelers, I wonder.<br /><br />They grow saffron not far from here too. Be generous with it to make marvellous golden creamy risotto Milanese to accompany an osso bucco... mmm. Good autumn food.<br /><br />I don't really like it in sweet things.earlybirdhttp://mangetoutetc.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-55030674541132429322011-10-22T08:54:58.354+02:002011-10-22T08:54:58.354+02:00Thanks three.
Zephyr, you are quite right, I shal...Thanks three.<br /><br />Zephyr, you are quite right, I shall append a postscript. Sadly that means so was Charmless, but I must accept this. Colchicum are indeed also called autumn crocus, and do look quite similar, but are poisonous, and as you say, the leaves are quite different. In fact the woodworked flowers look rather more like colchicum than crocus sativum, so perhaps I am not the only one to be confused.<br /><br />PC - I always feel that photos of pretty thatched and timbered English towns, or indeed stone and ramparted French ones, is a bit of a cheat, like photographing only photogenic and narcissistic people, on the other hand treasuring the old and weathered has something going for it!<br /><br />Z - odd how it isn't grown commercially here any more, when it was clearly such an important crop once; perhaps the climate changed, or people's tastes... I always have it around but am often slightly disappointed when I use it, perhaps I'm not generous enough with it, or haven't got the hang of using it.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-26814069371806905602011-10-22T05:40:05.439+02:002011-10-22T05:40:05.439+02:00A prayer to the most treasured spice - saffron.A prayer to the most treasured spice - saffron.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-76988911354499782312011-10-22T00:42:44.410+02:002011-10-22T00:42:44.410+02:00love the woodwork. how charming these old world to...love the woodwork. how charming these old world towns are. i feel all lost in my charmless north american existence. thank you for these little escapes!the polish chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929281676865641560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-43769033235360978362011-10-22T00:08:40.499+02:002011-10-22T00:08:40.499+02:00hmmm...i thought saffron crocus was crocus sativus...hmmm...i thought saffron crocus was <i>crocus sativus</i>, also fall blooming, but does not send up those huge leaves in spring, the way colchicum does? <br /><br />Saffron Weldon is lovely--thank you for sharing Tom's postcard! And i particularly love the beautiful woodworkzephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com