A plant that has seen a lot – Story of a millenary olive tree
Where has everyone gone? This might be what the thousand year old olive tree of Bovara, a small fraction of the Umbrian municipality of Trevi, is wondering. You got it right … a thousand year old! It is called the Olive tree of Sant’Emiliano because it seems that the bishop of Trevi Emiliano was tied to […]
The fragile saffron flower
There is a flower that always makes me smile: the blossom of saffron.So fragile but still making its way through the hard clumps. The saffron plant comes from a bulb (crocus sativus) and grows around 20-30 centimeters in height. The flowers have a purplish lilac color and inside there are three bright red stigmas. The latitude of Italy […]