Colchicum 2010

[I.S.]

 Hristo,
wonderful colchicum pictures from wild. I want to know is there any difference between C. borisii and C. autumnale? On my list C. borisii is a syn. name under C. autumnale!
 Where you have seen this colchicum is it near to turkish border? it is not recorded but I think we have also this colchicum in our side of border!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Mark, there aren`t a lot colchicums with purplish tube. I would say: NANCY LINDSAY. It is the first plant on the right site on my previous pic.
Here you can see NANCY LINDSAY and behind is WILLIAM DYKES (with white tubes and a little bit more silvery flowers)

[Hagen Engelmann]

A view into the flowers!

[pehe]

I have been given a Colchicum without a label. Can anyone identify?
It is as large as speciosus Album, but flower a week or two earlier.

The others are:
Colchicum agrippum
Colchicum 'Violet Queen'
Colchicum davisii

Poul

[BULBISSIME]

Poul,

look's like C. speciosum.... not album   or colchicum bornmuelleri wich is may be a form of C. speciosium

here is mine

[ArnoldT]

Here is C. Autumn Herald.   

[BULBISSIME]

Very easy to name Colchicum species 
I prefer spring flowering species 

[BULBISSIME]

No name problem with this one... C. speciosum var album

[krisderaeymaeker]

Here today in flower :

Colchicum lusitanicum
Colchicum cupanii subsp. pulverulentum
Colchicum cupanii 

[hadacekf]

The giant and the dwarf
Colchicum Giant
Colchicum cilicicum

[Hagen Engelmann]

Some newer cultivars: ARTUR KLARK, FLAMENCO DANCE, LARISSA DOLINA, NEPTUN

[Boyed]

Nice pictures, Hagen!
I like 'Neptun' the best and grow it with pleasure.
L. Bondarenko very appriciates colchicums with narrow petals and most of his cultivars are narrow-petalled. But I think that that the cultivars with classic blobular wide-petalled blooms are incompetable and your HERBSTKUGEL really struck me!!! It is real show stopper, which will beautify and brighten every colchicum collection and garden.

[Maggi Young]

The narrow petalled forms can be lovely but, like Zhirair, I really like the rounded goblet shaped flowers with full petals the best.
I tend to prefer crocus with a full rounded shape too.
Just personal preference I know, but I enjoy seeing which types appeal to which people.

[PeterT]

Here's a goblet for you Maggie 
Colchicum speciosum "Bechal's Dark Form" 
just potted up in time

[Maggi Young]

Not a form I know, Peter.... lovely shape to it and great colour.