[Sca-cooks] Saffron in Ireland

[Sue Clemenger]

Would it grow in western MT? We get colder winters and lots less rain 
than Portland, but I'd love to grow some.....
--maire, who likes saffron enough to wonder if it's the recipes that 
leave saffron *out* that have scribal errors <g>

Wanda Pease wrote:

> While saffron may have originated in the Eastern Mediterranean, we know it
> was grown in England (Saffron Walden).  The question might be if the climate
> of Ireland, or portions of Ireland would have allowed the growing of the
> Saffron Crocus.  I grow it here in Portland, Oregon, and friends have no
> problem growing it in Pennsylvania where they got the bulbs from the local
> Pennsylvania Dutch organization.