Colchicum 2024

[Yann]

Autumn is not far away and early bloomers has started to show their flowers.

Colchicum x agrippinum (autumnale x variegatum)




Colchicum × byzantinum (autumnale × cilicicum)




Colchicum × byzantinum alba form

[StevenS]

They look great Yann; are these photos all taken in your own garden or also in the wild?

[Stefan B.]

Yann, thanks for opening this thread.


In the background Colchicum pannonicum, syn.Colchicum 'Nancy Lindsay' in the foreground. I bought 'Nancy Lindsay' last year to compare them, they really are identical to me.


colchicum x Danton


Colchicum byzantinum

[Stefan B.]

Colchicum speciosum 'Altmarkstern'


Colchicum cilicicum


Colchicum speciosum 'Huxley'

[DaveM]

Nice!

Colchicums starting to flower here too in SE Scotland. 'Disraeli' in the garden. But in the greenhouse is C. boisseri

[Yann]

Nice!

Colchicums starting to flower here too in SE Scotland. 'Disraeli' in the garden. But in the greenhouse is C. boisseri

I like this species, simple but beautiful

[Yann]

colchicum x Danton

Do you know the 2 parents of this hybrid?

[ashley]

Beautiful colchicums 🙂

Merendera montana is lovely now in the Pyrenees.
It varies greatly in flower size, tepal colour, shape & width, as well as throat colour.

[MarcR]

Very Pretty Display!

I have C. byzantium and C. speciosum starting to flower.

[Stefan B.]

Do you know the 2 parents of this hybrid?

C. bivonae 'Danton' is the other name I recorded when I received this plant, I have no further information. At least one parent is known.

[Stefan B.]

And this is what I found on the Internet...maybe it's the other parent.
Colchicum callicymbium 'Danton'
https://gds-staudenfreunde.de/bildergalerien

[Mariette]

Very nice colchicums shown here! ´Huxley´ is one I like I like due to its rounded form. A friend said, that it flowers only for a short time - are You able to confirm that, Stefan?

Stefan, Your ´Danton ´looks very different from that shown by the GdS. Would You mind mentioning Your supplier?

[Stefan B.]

A friend said, that it flowers only for a short time - are You able to confirm that, Stefan?

Stefan, Your ´Danton ´looks very different from that shown by the GdS. Would You mind mentioning Your supplier?

Hi Mariette, your friend may have meant, this variety produces fewer flower heads and therefore the faster it flourishes.

I bought it from Bäuerlein Horst in 2021.
https://baeuerleins-gruene-stube.de/gal.php?gruppe=knolle
There is a picture of the variety in this link.

[Mariette]

Thank You very much for Your information, Stefan! ´Huxley´ still looks very attractive to me, and I´ll ask my friend for a corm!

´Danton´ is listed by grey-Wilson et al. in Colchicum as probably no more in cultvation, so it would be great if Bäuerleins still grow this variety. E.A. Bowles wrote in Crocus and Colchicum that it is with ´Conquest´the deepest coloured and handsomest of the tesselated forms, but found both difficult to tell apart. Even in his time, ´Danton´was seldom listed. He thought that ´Danton´ should be rather darker, rounder and with a more distinctly defined white throat. So, what You´ve got looks more what should be expected than the one pictured by GdS. 

[Yann]

Beautiful colchicums 🙂

Merendera montana is lovely now in the Pyrenees.
It varies greatly in flower size, tepal colour, shape & width, as well as throat colour.

Ariège? it makes me think about Soulcem valley.