Colchicums late 2008

[Thomas Huber]

Hagen you have a great Colchicum collection! Teufelskralle looks particularly well!!

Some more from my garden last week:

- aggripinum and byzantinum Album
- C. autumnale collected on meadows around my hometown
- C. autumnale, white form from Neustadt
- C. cilicicum clump
- C. kochii from Dalmatia
- C. lusitanicum
- C. ? from Greece

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wow - what a display Thomas !!!

From what I can see, you grom them in the rock garden among the Crocus, etc.. , I was wondering, aren't the leaves a nuisance in Spring

[Thomas Huber]

Luc, in between the Crocus bed are only small leaved forms not more
nuisance than the crocus leaves. The big ones are planted at the edge
of the rockgarden where they don't disturb the natural display.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hey Thomas,

we still loose the summer here im Brandenburg, but you have already found the autumn. Colchicum autumnale will come in two weeks here.It`s early enough. One of the first and tesselated Hybrids is AUTUMN QUEEN.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Here are two others,  blooming this time, first period of flowering!
FLAMENCO DANCE
HOLLANDS GLORY or NANCY LINDSAY or C. pannonicum

[Hagen Engelmann]

ANTARES, a gem.

[Hagen Engelmann]

JAROSLAWNA with an intensive colour.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Comes just through the ground colchicum agrippinum.

[Armin]

Hello Hagen,
wunderful colchicums. I'm just beginning to add some species into my garden.
Is your C. "Teufelskralle" the same as the dutch clone "Harlekijn"?

[Thomas Huber]

Hey Thomas,
we still loose the summer here im Brandenburg, but you have already found the autumn.
Colchicum autumnale will come in two weeks here.It`s early enough.

Hagen, Colchicum autumnale is always among the first Colchicums in my garden and also
in the wild. Will try to make a photo of a great meadow in the next days.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hello Armin,
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.

Hi Thomas,
my only, but rich of colour C. autumnale, came from hungaria (UNGARNROT). Hope, I can post a fresh picture some weeks later. If you have the early c. autumnale, we should say "Sommerzeitlose" (I have a lot of problems to identify the natural kinds of colchicums, because there is only a few literatur).
All together we have a lot of fun with colchicum, I mean that is important!!!

[I.S.]

Hello to every one, and thaks for all these nice shots..
Yesterday I have seen my first flowers of this season. The temperature is around 30 c. and We did not have  any rain here untill now. I have only some cloudes which coming from nord and cooling the weather. I don't know it could be but these plants started to awake up.
Here is a very rare one in my location. I have seen only a few flowers. With the old name of asian part of İstanbul.
C. chalcedonicum ssp. chalcedonicum

[art600]

Welcome back Ibrahim

A very nice Colchicum

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A very nice one to start your season with Ibrahim !!!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi Ibrahim, pictures of seldom shown plants are always better then old cultivares. And you show us such a nice tesselated colchicum ....... Ohhhh