Colchicum & relatives 2018

[Yann]

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

hihi 

Here's Colchicum byzantinum

[sokol]

More and more Colchicum are coming out here.

Colchicum davisii



Colchicum from Montenegro from self collected seed, any suggestions?



Colchicum parlatoris from AGS seed



Colchicum parlatoris from self collected seed at SW-Kefalonia. One flower damaged bei slugs, the following ones not  .

[sokol]

Some more Colchicum.

Colchicum sfikasianum, one bulb has flowered 2 weeks ago, the other three now.



Colchicum speciosum from the mountains above Trabzon, Turkey.

[Yann]

I'm not sure of this one i lost label, the white heart makes me think of Neptun...

[Roma]

  Is this Colchicum laetum?

 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Colchicum x agrippinum is not difficult and not rare, but for me definitely one of the best for the (rock) garden.

The fact that it flowers together with a Delphinium grandiflorum in its second flowering is an added bonus !

[Harald-Alex.]

The Colchicum varieties are over aready, only the wild Colchicum flowers, as the White Alba too.
There additional is a late colchicum comming out!

[Bart]

Colchicum x agrippinum is not difficult and not rare, but for me definitely one of the best for the (rock) garden.

They are nice, Luc. I have one that flowered earlier, and I thought that it was  C. x agrippinum too, but it probably is something else. Does anyone want to guess?





2 days ago we had fantastic light and all Colchicums were in their prime. Again, I am not sure which hybrids they are and wheter I have C. autumnale or C. speciosum… The hoverflies don't seem to mind!







The only ones I haven't seen yet is C. 'Harlequin' and C. speciosum 'Album'. They appear to be late here, and a lot less vigorous.

[Leucogenes]

Colchicum x agrippinum is not difficult and not rare, but for me definitely one of the best for the (rock) garden.

The fact that it flowers together with a Delphinium grandiflorum in its second flowering is an added bonus !

Fantastic pictures... Luc.

By the way.... when you and your botanical friends visited the arctic - alpine - garden in Chemnitz this year, I happened to be there too. I recognized you immediately. ☺

Thomas

[ArnoldT]

Colchicum Princess Astrid
Colchicum byzantinum Alba

Ants seem to find them very attractive

[Yann]

Colchicum pusillum, these ones are from Cyprus

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Fantastic pictures... Luc.

By the way.... when you and your botanical friends visited the arctic - alpine - garden in Chemnitz this year, I happened to be there too. I recognized you immediately. ☺

Thomas

Ah.... too bad you didn't come forward, would have been so nice to meet Thomas !

[Gerdk]

'Simple' autumnalis here

Gerd

[Mariette]

Not quite as simple, found today on a local site.

[Mariette]

There were others with more than the usual 6 petals. One had 6 and two additional ones of half the size. This one shows 7 petals.