Colchicums late 2008

[Oron Peri]

Here are some pics which I would like to share with you from last week. The pics taken in NGBB (a garden specialy for bulbs) from Istanbul. I visit some times this garden. The plant seems quite happy there

Ibrahim,

Great photos and lovely species...
Can you please give more details about this garden in Istanbul?

[tonyg]

Ibrahim, thank you for sharing your impressions of the NGBB.  Even if we were able to visit (perhaps one day I will come) your regular visits help us to always see the best things.

[I.S.]

Oron, Here is the page of NGBB garden. They have some informations in english also.
 http://www.ngbb.gen.tr/index.php?icerik_id=7
They say that they have more then 300 specieses in 2000 pots. They all collected from wild. They have a quite large bulb collection.
Tony, If you have any chance one day to see Istanbul. You should see that garden.

[Oron Peri]

Ibrahim,

Thank you for the information,
Certainly worth a visit!!!!

oron

[mark smyth]

Colchicum lycium is a beauty

[Brian Ellis]

http://www.stars21.com/translator/turkish_to_english.html

Is helpful for translating the site.

[Tony Willis]

Ibrahim

very nice colchicum photographs from the NGBB garden.I would think they would grow very well in that area.

I see the garden is quite near Uskudar which Brian Mathew gave as a good area for Iris suaveolens but which I now think is hundreds of blocks of flats. I found Crocus pestalozzae growing along the road not far from there on the way to Iznik.

[Anthony Darby]

Ibrahim, that form of pusillum is fantastic. I have never seen one so rich in colour.

[tonyg]

Its not something that I notice as reliably as the flowering time but I'd say don't expect any dramatic action until spring.  Noses may break the surface earlier but the main thrust of growth is when the spring weather begins to warm up.  The leaves often persist into summer until the weather really hots up.

[Anthony Darby]

The leaves are a real pain. I bought Colchicum graecum from PC, thinking it was small leaved (he advertises it as suitable companion to Leucojum autumnale ), but like most others, it is a real thug with leaves dominating its section of rockery.

[Maggi Young]

Rob, the leaves tend not to come up in the garden varieties until much later on... early spring. They can be large, which is why we plant them at the edge of borders or at the base of trees where the large leaves can grow, and in time, flop, without being a bother.

Since you grow most of your bulbs in pots ( I think I am  correct in saying?) then it will be quite simple for you to move the pots to a suitable place when the leaves get really big.

[Anthony Darby]

A good idea Maggi. I don't have the space, so binned most of my garden varieties.

[mark smyth]

I have many Colchicum leaves pushing up now. Some winter flowering Colchicums have noses above ground.

[art600]

Whilst on holiday in Greece recently, several Colchicum were found in flower.  The first was Colchicum boissieri - found around Mount Parnassos

[art600]

Just outside Delphi, on a piece of scrubland, we saw our first Colchicum cupanii