Colchicum 2014

[krisderaeymaeker]

Thanks to a friend from the UK 

Colchicum 'Nancy Lindsay ' 

[mark smyth]

Colchicums looking great in mine but some are over already 

Anyone know this one? It has very distinctive bulbs that look like tulip bulbs

[mark smyth]

I'm still trying to find out more about Colchicum Illyricum ex Drake which is a syn for C. fasciculare. This is my third season with it. I started with 5 and this time last year they had doubled to 10. I gave some away. This year they have almost doubled again. They have never flowered.

Am I doing something wrong?

They live in a clay pot in the sand plunge where they get fed with liquid feed every time the Galanthus and Narcissus are fed. Should I try some in the garden? How hardy are they?

[krisderaeymaeker]

Colchicums looking great in mine but some are over already 
Anyone know this one? It has very distinctive bulbs that look like tulip bulbs

Hi Mark , looks very much like C. montanum to me . But I am not a specialist.

[krisderaeymaeker]

I'm still trying to find out more about Colchicum Illyricum ex Drake which is a syn for C. fasciculare. This is my third season with it. I started with 5 and this time last year they had doubled to 10. I gave some away. This year they have almost doubled again. They have never flowered.
Am I doing something wrong?
They live in a clay pot in the sand plunge where they get fed with liquid feed every time the Galanthus and Narcissus are fed. Should I try some in the garden? How hardy are they?

I don't know much about the hardiness of this one Mark .Never grew it here.
But I do know that some Colchicums are very bad in flowering. Some are difficult to get in flower and there are more that not set flowers each year. Another thing I suspect , they do not like pots.
The bulbs very often want to go down and if they are potbounded they don't like this.
I would give it a try in the garden. I had this C.graecum in pot for many years and it never flower. Then I put in the garden and now it flowers each year.
But anyway , many Colchicums are very often difficult plants to grow. Offcourse not all ...... 

[krisderaeymaeker]

I think that Karin Persson only recognise the name C. fasciculare ........
http://www.iopb.org/PDF/IAPT_IOPB_Chr_data7.pdf
And that one grows in Syria.

And when your Colchicum is a true fasciculare then I could imagine that is not very hardy Mark and give some trouble in flowering here ....

[johnstephen29]

Hi I recently found this colchicum growing in my garden, I think it maybe agrippium, could anyone please confirm this. Thanks john


image by johnstephen29, on Flickr

[krisderaeymaeker]

Hi I recently found this colchicum growing in my garden, I think it maybe agrippium, could anyone please confirm this. Thanks john

I think you are right John ! That must be the one .....

[johnstephen29]

Thanks for confirming Kris, loverly colour to the petals.

[ashley]

From the exchange, sown Jan 2008 and flowering for the first time: Colchicum alpinum
Does this look right?

[mark smyth]

Thanks Kris

Maggi did Ian's illyricum/fasciculare flower?

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Kris

Maggi did Ian's illyricum/fasciculare flower?

Is that the one he's had for a while now? I'm sure it flowered last year  but it's not up yet this year.

[Eric Breed]

Colchicum Conquest (Glory of Heemstede) is blooming at my fathers collection field. A real good colour on it.

[krisderaeymaeker]

From the exchange, sown Jan 2008 and flowering for the first time: Colchicum alpinum
Does this look right?

Hello Ashley.
I think it has the right looks but I suppose you have to see the corms to be sure ? (and maybe leaves to ) 

[ashley]

Thanks Kris.  I know very little about colchicums but rather like this one and hope more of the seedlings reach flowering size next year.
Yes I'll check the bulb and leaves in due course, ideally against a key if I can find one.