Grow Your Own Spice Saffron!

Saffron crocus have rich, violet-purple blossoms with brilliant orange/red stigmas that are the source of the aromatic, exotic and pricey (!) culinary spice saffron. As the blossoms open, it’s super easy to collect and simply air dry the stigmas from the flowers for your own fresh, first quality, intensely flavored saffron “threads” for cooking. Easily grown in the garden or containers, saffron crocuses are planted late summer and will bloom and be ready to harvest in the autumn. READ MORE

NEW: Specialty Plants, Crowns and Roots For Spring Planting

A Trio Of Culinary Herb Plants

We offer top quality culinary herb seeds, but not all varieties grow readily from seed. Our solution is to offer a trio of deliciously edible, pollinator friendly custom-grown starter plants for the most requested varieties, ready to pop into your garden. READ MORE

Rhubarb Roots

Perennial rhubarb plants are hardy, long-lived additions to your yard. Weeks before anything else ripens, you can enjoy the flavor of rhubarb’s crisp tart red stalks. Handsome rhubarb plants, with their dramatic, crinkled green leaves atop crimson red stalks fit into the most sophisticated flower or shrub borders, foundation plantings, or a big container. READ MORE

Scented Geranium Plants

Brush against a leaf and imagine yourself in a rose garden in full bloom. Run your fingers against another and inhale a beguiling sweet lemon-rose fragrance or delicious minty chocolate scent. These evocative fragrances belong to our trio of scented geranium varieties. READ MORE

Asparagus Crowns

As passionate asparagus lovers know, having your own asparagus bed offers the luxury of picking crisp, tender, delicious spears right on the way to the kitchen. Once established, it takes several seasons before you begin the annual harvests, a well-managed asparagus bed produces reliable harvests for 15-20 years. Growing this perennial crop is a gardening investment no kitchen gardener should be without. READ MORE

Recipe Of
The Month
Saffron Rice With Apricots And Currants
Golden rice, studded with apricots, currants and fragrant with sweet spices adds spark to any menu. Serve as a side dish with chicken, sautéed shrimp or any seafood, or as a vegetarian meal.

Come Visit Often
reneesgarden.com
has more articles, seeds
and recipe ideas.
Warm Wishes, Renee Shepherd

Renee's Garden

6060 Graham Hill Rd.

Felton, CA 95018

Add us to your address book

Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list