Colchicums late 2008

[Michael J Campbell]

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

Ashley, It is under cover all year.
Re. the picture,just playing around and trying to get used to my new camera. Had builders in for two months, then I got a dose of Shingles and have just about recovered,so I am only getting to use the camera now.

Cheers Michael.

[Maggi Young]

Oh, my goodness, Michael... builders AND shingles... ...... I wonder you are fit to take any photos at all... your new camera looks to be giving great results though, eh? 

[Michael J Campbell]

It would Maggi, If I knew how to use it properly.

[Michael J Campbell]

Maggi, the Electricity Supply Board have been in my front garden all week removing an underground transformer.I am afraid to look at the damage they have caused, not quite up to repairing it yet. Had no power all day Tuesday.

[Maggi Young]

Even more sympathy, Michael....we are having computer problems of various sorts and this evening the electricity is spiking and the phones are funny....everything seems to be going skew-wiff! 

I would send you some chocolate to cheer you up, but I recall you do not eat the stuff...I'll just send a consoling cuddle, then!

[David Nicholson]

Michael, your last few pictures have really been first class. I'm sure you have the hang of the new camera now.

[Thomas Huber]

Different Colchicums in my rockgarden:

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

Just one week between the two photos!!!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Colchicum BEACONSFIELD, easy to differ from others by U-profile of the segments and the starry Y of the flower.

[Tony Willis]

I saw a nice field of C. autumnale last Thursday in the Ardenne. They were very variable in colour including some white and some with very finely variegated flowers.

[Tony Willis]

Some in flower when we got back home

[Armin]

Wow - no C. autumnale open here in meadows yet.
Like your tesselated colchicums, Tony.

[I.S.]

Tony very nice colchicums.
The last one is the best for me. Just I want to be sure If I am not wrong C. variegatum is from Fethiye S.W. TR.  and C. bivonae from Edremit. N.W. TR.!!!

[Tony Willis]

ibrahim

I think both are in SW Turkey as Edrimit is about 100 miles North of Izmir.I always think of NW Turkey as being in the Istanbul area

[I.S.]

Tony,
C. bivonae is not recorded in Fethiye ( for this species I have record in Edremit )
C. variegatum is not recorded in Edremit ( for this species I  have record in Fethiye )
I just want to help by locations.

[Anthony Darby]

In today's sunshine, Cc. atticum; cupanii and pusillum opened in the bulb house. The sun had gone by the time I got the camera out. Note the thin leaves of pusillum when compared with the large supervolute leaves of cupanii.