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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #210 on: September 26, 2008, 04:30:13 PM »
I grow too many of my larger Colchicums in pots and cant wait for a new bed to be built in the back garden when they will be grown. /quote]

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #211 on: September 26, 2008, 05:51:48 PM »
I grow mine in pots because they are decimated by slugs in the garden.

 C. speciosum album is wonderful.

here is 'waterlily' in the sunshine.I do not like it but my wife does so it stays.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #212 on: September 26, 2008, 06:03:20 PM »
I have never seen 'Waterlily' looking so good.

The weather has been so good this week. Today was a fraction below 20C
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #213 on: September 26, 2008, 06:18:24 PM »
WATERLILY isn`t bad and a woman`s wish is holy.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #214 on: September 26, 2008, 06:30:17 PM »


I don't know the parentage, but as far as I am concerned, both 'Poseidon' (aka 'Jaroslavna') and 'Neptun' were bred in Latvia. Anyway, they obviously differ from many almost similar looking pinkish purple cultivars.


Zhirair, do you mean POSEIDON and JAROSLAVNA are the same plants???
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #215 on: September 26, 2008, 08:50:37 PM »
Can anyone confirm the i.d. of this colchicum ? I took the picture in Lesvos in October 1996 and believe it to be Colchicum autumnale but I had not put the name on the slide mount.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #216 on: September 26, 2008, 08:59:05 PM »
Here's my 'Jaroslavna'/'Poseiden' taken today in the sunshine. And from last year's East Anglia AGS bulb sale C. sfikasianum
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #217 on: September 27, 2008, 05:36:44 AM »
Hagen,
yes, 'Jaroslavna' and 'Poseidon' are the same plants and 'Jaroslavna' is a priority name for this variety.

Tony
as a lover of classic shapes with globular strogly goblet-shaped and wide-petalled forms, I also don't like 'Waterlily' and grow it just for the interest and different appearance. It has a buxsom look, but indeed, can't be considered as beautiful.

Relating the pot culture of large-flowered colchicums;
I notice that colchicums, especially autumn-blooming ones, don't like dry air inside, they finish vegetation much earlier and large bulbs form smaller replacement bulbs. In my ipinion, pots should be at least placed in the open air during vegetation in spring.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #218 on: September 27, 2008, 12:22:29 PM »
Can anyone confirm the i.d. of this colchicum ? I took the picture in Lesvos in October 1996 and believe it to be Colchicum autumnale but I had not put the name on the slide mount.
Tom.  At first glance I wondered about C bivonae, but I am at work and do not have reference books to consult re distribution.  I don't think it is C autumnale as this is not ususally so strongly chequered.  Others will hopefully expound!

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #219 on: September 27, 2008, 02:45:24 PM »
Recently given this small Colchicum.  I believe it is a ssp. of cupanni.

Colchicum coustourierii
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #220 on: September 27, 2008, 10:19:38 PM »
Super Colchicums from everybody.

I'm just beginning putting an eye on Colchicums.

C.autumnale album and C. cilcicum laid beginning of September and now in flower.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #221 on: September 27, 2008, 11:05:25 PM »
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #222 on: September 28, 2008, 08:01:50 AM »
Last novemberlight and Colchicum autumnale  PLENUM. The flowers of this colchicum are  the latest in my garden.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #223 on: September 28, 2008, 03:33:23 PM »
Another C.bivonae this time from Mt Olympus
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #224 on: September 28, 2008, 06:57:48 PM »
Last novemberlight and Colchicum autumnale  PLENUM. The flowers of this colchicum are  the latest in my garden.
Do you believe "Snowdroptime" is coming faster that way, Hagen?  ??? ;D ;D ;D
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