Colchicums late 2008

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Franz,

You never stop to amaze us...

All are wonderful but C. bivonae 3 is my favourite.

Thanks for sharing these wonders

[olegKon]

Hello Jim,
today I ordered GARTENSCHÖNHEIT because it`s a historical ducument for us colchicum lovers. Your homepage looks very fine, I will often come back to see.

Thanks Zhirair,
from your pics I learnt much about JAROSLAVNA. But the small colchicum is too small for my garden.

Hi Oleg,
your DICK TROTTER is also a very special plant. I would mean, the second pic is C. speciosum atrorubens??? C cilicicum isn`t so big. Have a look to my pic some posts earlier. Or look here:http://www.garten-in-den-wiesen.de/bilder/colchicum/index.htm

Hagen,
Thanks for the ID. This is really like your "Atrorubens' does yours have a greenish or purplish "stem"?

[Hagen Engelmann]

Oleg
the stems but also the color of the flowers often darken. C. spec. Atrorubrum isn`t out of the ground this year. I will have a look at it. Because we haven`t the same source for our bulbs there must be differences. Look to a natural ground for colchicum. You can find allways flowers with differences in color. The result: we have to show a genealogical tree for our cultivares

[Jim McKenney]

Jim,

I think your colchicum 'The Giant' is true to name. I grow it as well, mine look the same as yours, and, no doubt, the cultivar has light tessalation.

I did think that colchicum 'The Giant' is the largest among all colchicums, until colchicum giganteum appeared in my collection. It astonished me by its huge sizes.

Zhirair, that's good news to me: I have a small plant of Colchicum giganteum here. It bloomed once, but the flower was not exceptionally large. It has not bloomed during the last two years. Perhaps the day will come when I'll see the really big flowers.

[Michael J Campbell]

Colchicum cupanii
The first one to flower for me this year, nothing in the garden yet.

[ashley]

Beautiful plant Michael, and a great picture.  Do you grow it under cover all year?

[Boyed]

Jim,

This is my colchicum giganteum, photographed in fall 2007.
You can see the way it looks in my garden.

[Thomas Huber]

Different Colchicums in my rockgarden:

[Hagen Engelmann]

Fine and globular, your C. giganteum Zhirair. I like these form.

Thomas, it looks a little bit prussian. There is some strictly arrangement in. Healthy plants

[Lvandelft]

Different Colchicums in my rockgarden:

Where did I see this (almost the same) picture ?

[Maggi Young]

 

.....for those of you puzzled, try here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2435.msg55186;boardseen#new

...super to see the change in a short time!

[mark smyth]

If only my Colchicums would stand so proud! The £$%^&*( rain and wind nearly always beats them down

[mark smyth]

I've mentioned elsewhere in the forums that the white Colchicum kessellringii that came in a batch of kessellringiis has deteriorated to mush and has maggots eating it. The question has to be did it die due to our very wet summer or because of the maggots

[mark smyth]

Is byzantinum the only Colchicum with a purple style?

[David Nicholson]

Different Colchicums in my rockgarden:

Looks great Thomas.