{"id":3713,"date":"2010-08-26T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:01:56","slug":"saffron-crocus-bulbs-have-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/saffron-crocus-bulbs-have-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Saffron Crocus Bulbs have arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/saffron.jpg\" alt=\"Saffron Crocus\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>My Saffron Crocus bulbs arrived from Suttons just before my holiday so I have only just planted them. I chose to plant them in three medium sized bulb bowls so that I can keep them close to the house and keep my eye on them.<\/p>\n<p>The instructions say they can be planted any time through to September but early August is the best time.<\/p>\n<p>They should be ready to harvest from October but as mine were planted late it may be November before I can begin to collect the orange\/red stigmas from the flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Once harvested the plants should be left to die down naturally to allow the bulbs to regenerate for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The stigmas will need to be dried out and will be able to be kept in an airtight jar for several years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post an update once they are in flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Saffron Crocus bulbs arrived from Suttons  just before my holiday so I have only just planted them. I chose to plant them in three medium sized bulb bowls so that I can keep them close to the house and keep my eye on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chat","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15756,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/15756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}