Colchicums February 2008

[mark smyth]

Here are a few things from today. I ran out of sunlight to take more Colchicum photos

Colchicum diampolis new to me this year. Less than 6"/15cm high and purest white

This C. kessellringii has 11 flowers fully open and just visible. Unfortunately the are ruined by the high winds this week. I didnt think they were so variable

[mark smyth]

This pink C. diampolis is caused by the low sun at 15.50 today - oh I dont like extending day length. The white ones, with a slightest tink of pink, were photographed at 15.28

[dominique]

What a pleasure you have to see them flower for the first time (diampolis). Thank you Mark

[dominique]

Little beauty with the sun : Colchicum szovitzii 'Tivi'

[mark smyth]

I tried 'Tivi' in the garden and it is much larger than those in a pot. This summer all will go out

[Susan Band]

At last the sun is out to open up the Colchicum. This is Colchicum szovitsii 'Snow White'.Just bought last autumn so no credit to me, it, as usual with my bulbs, is growing outside in a gravely bed topped dressed with chopped leaves. How different is it to Tivi? Hard to tell without them being grown together

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It's a beauty Susan !

[mark smyth]

All my Tivi are as white as the driven snow. I'll post a photo later if I can get home soon

[Hans A.]

Wow - real bautyful pix you show here! 

[mark smyth]

I have Colchicum minutum to swap. Two groups are doing excellent in a trough. Once the leaves go dormant I'll be lifting them and will know how many I have to spare.

[mark smyth]

 A day late but here are mine for Susan et al along with my soboliferum that's falling apart and part of my minutum colony

[Anthony Darby]

Yeh, that's what my Colchicum minutum would look like if it had flowered this year. Wouldn't have bought it from PC if I'd known that. His website shows dinkie little flowers growing out of bare earth and no leaves.

[dominique]

Mark,
My soboliferum are not at all as yours

[mark smyth]

Yes I saw that but some of mine flowered in the autumn. I've never seen so many flowers on mine before. They are just about over now.

Yours are great Dom!

[dominique]

yours too Mark ! Mine look like sea's anemone !!! as if they put their arms above their head against sun or rain.......with a lot of imagination !