Colchicums late 2008

[Carlo]

I've got a lovely combination (it worked! it worked!) of C. 'Waterlily' and C. 'The Giant' with Gentiana makinoi 'Royal Blue' blooming right now. I had hoped the gentian would match the colchicum's season of interest, and...voila!

[art600]

Carlo

Did you intend to share your delight with us with a photograph? 

[mark smyth]

Dominique one word WOW!  Is byzantinum Album single bulbs? Mine dont flower like that

[Carlo]

Aha...

It's not photographed yet...and I have a tendency to get great photographs and never take the time to put them through my work flow so that they can be put up on the web, printed, etc.

I've got my work cut out...

[hadacekf]

Dominique you have an extensive beautiful collection. My congratulation.

[art600]

Dominique one word WOW!  Is byzantinum Album single bulbs? Mine dont flower like that

Mark

I recently bought 3 bulbs and the first one has already thrown up 3 flowers with the promise of more. 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Dominique, fantastic colchicum. Only in the formery CSSR I have ever seen such a fine colchicumncollection.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi Zhirair,

here is ZEPHYR. It`s not a winner. You are full right, only a moderate Colchicum without a good color or size. I don`t need it. It`s not as good as AUTUMN HERALD or ATTLEE. Between two colchicum souls I would say: forget it. But actually Dominique shows us his fantastic collection.

Dominique, how do you think about Zephyr, also bad like me?

[Jim McKenney]

I found TEUFELSKRALLE a couple of years ago in my own garden. It isn`t HARLEQUIN or JARKA, but it must be the same defect of building good tepales.

Hagen, when you named Colchicum 'Teufelskralle', did you do so because it reminded you of Physoplexis comosa (aka Phyteuma comosum )?

[Boyed]

Hagen,

my e-mail address mentioned in this website is not always working properly. For sending correspondence it is better to send to the same address writing inbox.ru instedad of freenet.am.

Thanks a lot for showing the photo of 'Zhepyr'. I see your have somewhat starry shaped base. But I think mine are somewhat similar to Dominique's. I photographed my 'Zephyr' and will try to post the pcs soon. yes, you're right, this variety has nothing special. I just took an interest as in its description was written that it has large globular flowers.

Dominique, tremendous show of colchicums!!!!!!!! I am highly impressed! great.
Colchicum byzantinum is an abundant bloomer and in masses it makes a fantastic display. The only fauls are: weeker tubes and slow increasing.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Morning Jim, yes I thought to Phyteuma`s German name, but it looks more like the fingernail of devil`s wife.

[Boyed]

Interesting - everybody post their nice photos of colchicum and I see nobody grows one og the nicest forms - colchicum speciosum Atrorubens.

[mark smyth]

I used to have C. atrorubens. It could be one of my unidentified Colchicums. I'll post photos later

[Rafa]

Hello friends,

This is Colchicum cupanii var. glossophyllum, Colchicum is another of my favourite genus, although I don't grow many species....

[art600]

Rafa