Colchicums late 2008

[art600]

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]

Mark

What is stopping you - Summer has just arrived. 

[Tony Willis]

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.

[mark smyth]

I have never seen 'Waterlily' looking so good.

The weather has been so good this week. Today was a fraction below 20C

[Hagen Engelmann]

WATERLILY isn`t bad and a woman`s wish is holy.

[Hagen Engelmann]

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???

[TC]

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.

[mark smyth]

Here's my 'Jaroslavna'/'Poseiden' taken today in the sunshine. And from last year's East Anglia AGS bulb sale C. sfikasianum

[Boyed]

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.

[tonyg]

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!

[art600]

Recently given this small Colchicum.  I believe it is a ssp. of cupanni.

Colchicum coustourierii

[Armin]

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.

[Lesley Cox]

and a woman`s wish is holy.

Of course!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Last novemberlight and Colchicum autumnale  PLENUM. The flowers of this colchicum are  the latest in my garden.

[Tony Willis]

Another C.bivonae this time from Mt Olympus

[Lvandelft]

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?