Colchicum & relatives 2019

[Tomte]

After the first days of sunshine, some dwarf colchicums were finally allowed to flower. These have been in bud and waiting since christmas..
Colchicum munzurense (non-stoloniferous form with vertical corms)
Colchicum serpentinum
Colchicum trigynum

[Maggi Young]

After the first days of sunshine, some dwarf colchicums were finally allowed to flower. These have been in bud and waiting since christmas..

 Hello Tomte!
Sometime the wait seems endless, does it not?!!

[Tomte]

It certainly does. And now everything is racing to catch up with the sudden spring.
Today I noticed that I actually have 2 different forms of Colchicum munzurense, the other one has got a darker pink in the throat and lighter and more acuminate segments. The effect of this one is more star-like than in the other one (see the left flower below). I cross-pollinated both today, now I hope for a good seed-set.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Colchicum doerfleri is reliable at this time of year.

[fermi de Sousa]

The autumn flowering varieties are starting here 
The first is one that was a self-sown seedling of one grown from seed as Colchicum bivonae - which it isn't!
The next couple of pics are a couple of dwarf varieties I got from Jon B (Mini-Bulb Lover on this Forum)
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

This is the Colchicum I've grown since the mid 1980s as 'Lilac Major' which last year Sjaak de Groot identified as Colchicum bizanthium
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

A few more autumn flowers:
Colchicum byzanthium (known in our group as "Mrs Craig's")
Colchicum  "Not sibthorpii" x 2
Colchicum  "Not The Giant" but a similar C.speciosum hybrid
Colchicum corsicum - coming up through a mat of Dymondia!
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

A long time ago Jon (mini-bulblover) bought a pot of Colchicum zahnii but someone told him that the name is now C. psaridis. Then someone else said that it's actually Colchicum cupanii! Anyway Jon's always flower about a month before the ones he gave me, so ours are only now in bloom while his finished a month ago!
cheers
fermi

[LucS]

The new flowering season has already started here in the north with this Colchicum turcicum.

[LucS]

Also recently in flower were the Greek Colchicum graecum and Colchicum decaisnei from Lebanon

[LucS]

A first time flower on this seedcollection (KV613) from Mt. Smolikas in N-Greece.
I believe this is Colchicum haynaldii.

[Yann]

Very nice start of season, here it's very shy flowering.
Colchicum byzantinum planted 5 years ago at least 30cm deep, now surfing on soil's level

[Yann]

Colchicum x agrippinum, a reliable and good speading hybrid (Colchicum autumnale × Colchicum variegatum)

[David Nicholson]

and mine, Colchicum x agrippinum

[Pauli]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!