Re: Colchicums July 2009

[Otto Fauser]

Before the autumnflowering Colchicum season starts in the Northern Hemisphere ,here are
a few winterflowering species in bloom in my garden this week . I'm not a 100% sure
 if my C. stevenii is true to name  .-what other species could it be ?Would like to know
 the correct name,
      Otto.

[Otto Fauser]

Sorry forgot the names :
1-COlch. ?stevenii
2  "       doerfleri
3  "      szovitzii
4  "      burtii
5  "      hungaricum
       Otto.

[Paul T]

Wow, Otto.  I've usually only ever seen the lutea and kesselringii in winter.  I don't think I realised there were that many more.  Just love the leaves on the second one.... they look so furry.  Great to see so many new ones.  





Edit by maggi; I've made a new page for these..... bit late for the "early" page"....so "July" it is!

[Janis Ruksans]

Before the autumnflowering Colchicum season starts in the Northern Hemisphere ,here are
a few winterflowering species in bloom in my garden this week . I'm not a 100% sure
 if my C. stevenii is true to name  .-what other species could it be ?Would like to know
 the correct name,
      Otto.

Dear Otto,
I'm in home now and can't check but if my memory still didn't fail - stevenii has many leaves, more than ten at least but there can be some confusion with naming, too. I will check on Monday when I will be at my literature in office.
Janis

[Oron Peri]

Otto,

I agree with Janis, it is not C. stevenii [ has many more linear leaves and  flowers per bulb]
Seems more like  C. cupanii to me...?

[hadacekf]

I agree with Oron. I think too it looks like C. cupanii.

[Alessandro.marinello]

Otto your Colchicum is magnificent, remains astonished to see in flower in this period

[Otto Fauser]

Janis , Oron , Franz, thank you for your comments , but it can't be C. cupanii , which I do
 grow and which is an autumnflowering species . The '?C. stevenii' is flowering now[winter]
 and is a larger plant , broader leaves and looks more like C. burtii . Most important is the
fact that the seed was collected in Turkey where cupanii does not grow .
 
  Just spoke to Marcus Harvey in Tasmania ,who together with Norman Stevens collected the
seeds near Antalya , in the area where Crocus mathewii grows., on the road from Kalkan 
 to Elmali , a short distance before the 'Flowery Pass'. Janis you will know where that is .
 
    So we still need a name for it .
       
              Otto.

[pehe]

Otto, very nice colchicum.

Here is my first autumn flowering. It has rained a lot lately so it is a bit dirty.

Poul

[Tony Willis]

my first one of the year has shot into flower.

It is from Mt Parnassus in Greece

[pehe]

my first one of the year has shot intop flower.

It is from Mt Parnassus in Greece

Tony,

Is it Col. graecum? I have not success with that. In 3 successive years I have planted this, but in spring the bulb was rotten ever if there is excellent drainage. This spring there was leaves, so I hope for flowers soon. How do you grow it?

Poul

[Tony Willis]

I do not know the species,I think they have had the splitters at work on them. I grow it in a pot in a cold frame kept dry in summer in a gritty compost. No special treatment.

[mark smyth]

My first Colchicum, the rare, 'Lost Label' cultivar opened this week. It's small. I'll post a photo later.

[mark smyth]

First noticed on July 22nd was this Colchicum. Anyone know which it could be?

[Anthony Darby]

I have Colchicum graecum coming out now. A bit of a thug! I certainly wouldn't be planting it with Leucojum autumnalis, or Crocus vallicola, as has been suggested.