Colchicum autumn 2009

[Sinchets]

Thanks, Tony. Does it give a description at all? All I have from my Flora is the name.
Flowering here now with the names they were bought with - some of which I think may be wrong.
Colchicum bivonae 'Apollo'
C.cilicium ?
C.doerfleri ?
C.'kotschyi' 
another C.'kotschyi' 

[mark smyth]

I find the pink Colchicums with the white star in the middle very confusing and not easy to tell apart.

Here is a photo taken in May I didnt know I had showing Colchicum leaves in one of my raised beds

[Maggi Young]

I find the pink Colchicums with the white star in the middle very confusing and not easy to tell apart.

Here is a photo taken in May I didnt know I had showing Colchicum leaves in one of my raised beds

 I sympathise with that, Mark!  I have a sneaking feeling that many of these types have been given names when they are basically just (unstable !) variations on a theme!

I likethe shot of your maytime bed... the foliage of the colchicums looks very nice to my eye 

[Tony Willis]

Thanks, Tony. Does it give a description at all? All I have from my Flora is the name.

I will scan the page over the weekend and send it to you

[johanneshoeller]

The typical Upper Austrian Colchicum autumnale.

[Maggi Young]

How lovely they look, standing so straight and wide open like that  in the sunshine-  We don't often see them like that!  

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hans, eine imposante Blütengruppe. Danke. Did you find some different kinds of purple or pink in your population?

[Hagen Engelmann]

WILLIAM DYKES, not the biggest, but a fine long-globular and silverypink flower.

[Ragged Robin]

Fantastic photo of your

typical Austrian Colchicum autumnale

Hans, beautiful lighting showing the group off to perfection  

[Hagen Engelmann]

Colchicum autumnale ALBUM  - if you like small flowering colchicum. Now in best conditions.

[Ragged Robin]

Hagan, did you take that photo this evening?  It really shows your C. album well in the low light, mysteriously beautiful...they obviously love the position they are in - i'm wondering how long it took to spread so naturally like that?

[Hagen Engelmann]

RR it`s a pic of the last year and I selected it because of the good light. But C a ALBUM are now the "bringer". Years ago I had a very big group and I had to thin out the stock. Now you can see this fine display.

[Ragged Robin]

I can but dream ....

[Lesley Cox]

I also like Mark's colchicum leaves. I think of the really big ones as mini Veratrums. 

[Anthony Darby]

Here's my clump of Colchicum autumnale Album, and C. agrippinum. I much prefer the wee ones, which have been sold to me mostly as C. cupanii, but would appear to be C. pusillum or C. cretense?