Colchicum autumn 2009

[Maggi Young]

Loading direct from your pc is always the best way to load the pix, Kris, thanks!

[Sinchets]

Not quite as big or beefy, but certainly surprisingly early-
Colchicum hungaricum- flowering now

My Colchicum hungaricum has resloved itself to be 'Velebit Star', which I though I had lost- a week later and after several frosts its flower is now pink. 

[LucS]

My first pot of Colchicum hungaricum flowering in the bulb frame.
This selection "Velebit Star" has almost white flowers with black anthers.
Origin is the Velebit Mtns in Croatia.

[BULBISSIME]

This is a very nice species Luc, and it flowers very early... do you grow it in greenhouse ?

[mark smyth]

Mine are outside in a pot

[Sinchets]

Mine's out side in the garden. Not that it matters much, although exposing the flowers to frost makes the pink colour deepen.

[Maggi Young]

Do Luc IIs flowers look so pale because they have been under cover?

[Sinchets]

Paul Christian's site says that C.hungaricum 'Velebit Star' has pale pink flowers with black anthers. If you look back in this thread when I first posted mine they were white (this was over a week ago when it was warmer here), so I assumed mine were C.hungaricum album. As they aged they turned pale pink, so I thought they must be 'Velebit Star', then after a hard frost they were deeper pink. They are still deep pink today 

[LucS]

Do Luc IIs flowers look so pale because they have been under cover?

This pot is planted out in the sandbed of a coldframe with glass-top.
Sides are open for optimum ventilation.
The plants come from Leonid Bondarenko - in his online catalogue is a picture of the plant
that shows a very pale (nearly white!) flowercolour.
It's very possible that the flowers become pale pink with frost - we didn't get any frost so far.

[Maggi Young]

That's interesting, Luc.... it was my understanding that these plants were white or very nearly so, as yours are.

[dominique]

Very nice Colchicum Luc. Tank you
Here, always Colchicum asteranthum and hirsutum. C. hirsutum is very minute plant and the base of the leaves begins to show hirsute hairs that I will show you next week

[Sinchets]

This pic is to show a new flower coming form the C.hungaricum- it is pink already as conditions have been cold for the last few days. The earlier flower was white turning to pink.

[WimB]

First time flowering here: Colchicum kesselringii

[art600]

Wim

I have my fingers crossed that my kesselringii will flower again this year, but it looked a poor plant in comparison to your very healthy plant.  Where did you get the bulb?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great stuff Wim !!!
Is that growing outside ??