Colchicum & relatives 2018

[LucS]

Two Greek colchicum in flower despite the heat :
colchicum parnassicum
colchicum euboeum

[fermi de Sousa]

A pleasant surprise in your sizzling summer, Luc!
cheers
fermi

[sokol]

Colchicum have started also here.

25 years ago I had thrown some seeds of Colchicum autumnale in my lawn. Meanwhile I have about hundred flowers every year.





This one I have got as Colchicum borisii. I have found out that it should be a synonyme of Colchicum autumnale but it looks different.



Recent acquisition: Colchicum kotschyi



8 years a ago I picked up a rather small bulb from a street south of Monemvassia, Greece. It turned out to be Colchicum sfikasianum that is flowering reliably every year and multiplied well.

[Harald-Alex.]

Start of the Autumn-flower-saison  with Colchicum spec in 20.8.2018.
This is 3 weeks earlier, as last years here in Döbrichau/Germany/Saxonia

[Yann]

Colchicum x agrippinum and the lovely Merendera montana to start the season 

[sokol]

I am doing it the other way round, Merendera montana is planted out and Colchicum x agrippinum is still in a pot. Both are still not visible here.

I discovered Colchicum bivonae Giona yesterday.

[Rob-Rah]

I've got the first of the C. agrippinum coming up in the garden now I'll post more if they put on a better display over the next weeks.

(that's some handsome fruits of Arum dioscoridis behind the first pic)

[David Nicholson]

Here's my Colchicum  agrippinum roughly within days of the same time last year

[Yann]

agrippinum is regular as clockwork 

[David Nicholson]

Colchicum in the garden.

[Maggi Young]

Easy to see you're in the south, David  - those are miles ahead of ours.

[David Nicholson]

What? Everytime I look at the weather forecast Aberdeen is bathed in sunshine and they're  eating ice cream as fast as they can make it

[Maggi Young]

That's  just a ruse  by the Visit Scotland folks, David!  The city is overloaded with hotel rooms and since the oil downturn the hoteliers are desperate to attract visitors! Pity none of them thought to try dropping prices!!

[Carolyn]

Easy to see you're in the south, David  - those are miles ahead of ours.

An interesting remark, Maggi.  You might think that the drop in temperature and the rain might trigger the flowers in the north first, but this is not the case.  Could it be that they come into spring growth later, so flower later? Do a certain number of days need to pass between leaf growth and flowering?
David, super colchicums!

[Maggi Young]

We have certainly had a drop in temperatures lately, as well as quite a bit of rain. But only one or two colchicum appearing so far.  I must admit I cannot  recall exactly when they come into leaf - so your point about the  timing from flower to leaf to flower again may well be right on the button. I'll ask Ian if he  could work this out from photos of the garden - if not - that's another project to be working on !