Colchicum 2015

[ruben]

Colchicum corsicum - a very nice little fower WITHOUT the mass of leaves afterwards.

[Yann]

Colchicum agrippinum just after a shower

[mark smyth]

Colchicum autumnale 'Nancy Lindsay' enjoying todays sunshine

[Jim McKenney]

Years ago I posted to this forum a photo of Esther Bartning's plate of colchicums which appeared in the October 1938 Gartenschoenheit.

Ever since then I've been trying to assemble fresh blooms to duplicate what is shown in that plate. But two of the cultivars shown there, 'Danton' and 'General Grant'  have proven to be elusive so far. I'm tired of waiting, and so today I put together an approximation of the Bartning plate using the material available to me now.

You can see it here:
http://mcwort.blogspot.com/2015/09/colchicums-esther-bartning-homage.html

I hope you enjoy it!

[Pauli]

Colchicum cilicicum album
C. agrippinum
c. spec from Teheran area with Sternbergia sicula īPantokratorī

[Maggi Young]

All growing well, Herbert!

[Pauli]

Thanks for your nice comment Maggi 
But with the recent summer here in Austria it was not all too difficult.

[ruben]

Very nice Herbert! Very nice species from teheran! Did you collect this iranian species yourself? Does it form large leaves afterwards?

[ruben]

Colchicum corsicum

[Pauli]

Ruben, I did not collect it myself, but I grow it now for more than 15 years.
And yes, it forms rather big, īnormalīColchicum leaves in spring.

[ArnoldT]

Tags long gone.

[Maggi Young]

Years ago I posted to this forum a photo of Esther Bartning's plate of colchicums which appeared in the October 1938 Gartenschoenheit.

Ever since then I've been trying to assemble fresh blooms to duplicate what is shown in that plate. But two of the cultivars shown there, 'Danton' and 'General Grant'  have proven to be elusive so far. I'm tired of waiting, and so today I put together an approximation of the Bartning plate using the material available to me now.

You can see it here:
http://mcwort.blogspot.com/2015/09/colchicums-esther-bartning-homage.html

I hope you enjoy it!

 I certainly did, Jim  thank you!

[johnralphcarpenter]

Colchicum cousturieri (syn. C. cupanii), from Kurt Vickery.

[mark smyth]

The flower power of Colchicum autumnale 'Nancy Lindsay' comparing September 8th to 28th

[mark smyth]

Anyone know this distinctive Colchicum with flat petals and flowers that open flat on sunny days? It has green tubes that darken to reddish