Colchicum 2010

[krisderaeymaeker]

I hope that you have all seen the lovely photo by Jon Evans on the AGS site from the Loughborough show of Colchicum luteum x. kesselringii 'Jeane'  , plant exhibited by Robin Pickering.....
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Loughborough+Show+March+Formal+Photos/360/
It's very nice!

Oh yes Maggi ,I agree! Thanks for the link.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Today's pictures :

Bulbocodium vernum
Colchicum triphyllum
Colchicum luteum 'Vahsh'   

[Diane Clement]

I hope that you have all seen the lovely photo by Jon Evans on the AGS site from the Loughborough show of Colchicum luteum x. kesselringii 'Jeane'  , plant exhibited by Robin Pickering.....
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Loughborough+Show+March+Formal+Photos/360/
It's very nice!

And yet another pot of Colchicum szovitsii from yours truly, I didn't seem to get a picture of it myself, but Jon's picture is better than mine would have been
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/results/shows2010/shows/loughbor/images/Jon_Evans/sizedcolchicum-szovitsii-diane-clement-rbs-award-best-bulb-0528.jpg.html

this is a clone with narrower petals than the usual forms, and pure white flowers, I rather like it! - and luckily, so did the judges         

[Maggi Young]

and luckily, so did the judges

Well, it is rather a corker, Diane ......looking just lovely. Well done!

[Lesley Cox]

The Jon Evans photos in the link Maggi, are truly superb. Brilliant pictures of super plants. I also love the last three of the little girls in the alpine gardens. They are truly delightful. Would love to think cards or larger portraits could become available.

[TheOnionMan]

I hope that you have all seen the lovely photo by Jon Evans on the AGS site from the Loughborough show of Colchicum luteum x. kesselringii 'Jeane'  , plant exhibited by Robin Pickering.....
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Loughborough+Show+March+Formal+Photos/360/

It's very nice!

Using your link Maggi, the Colchicum hybrid is indeed lovely, so are many of the other superb plants highlighted there.  I find the Hepatica and naked Asarum displayed without any leaves (cut off) to look totally bizarre and out of place, and the weird "alice in wonderland" composite photos at the end, well, they are even weirder than my avatars!!! What is the context or purpose of those? (sorry Lesley).  Somebody has been eating some mushrooms. 

[Maggi Young]

and the weird "alice in wonderland" composite photos at the end, well, they are even weirder than my avatars!!! What is the context or purpose of those? (sorry Lesley).  Somebody has been eating some mushrooms.

They are just like your avatars, McMark, they are done because they can be, to amuse and entertain

 A chance for Jon, who spends so much time in "straight" photography of the show plants to let his hair down and have some fun!
There are classes for this sort of digital camera trickery and  these allow folks to explore all sorts of technical possibilities with their digital photos....just another facet of our plant passions.....

[Lesley Cox]

That's what I thought Maggi. Just for fun.

[TheOnionMan]

Several years ago I received bulbs from a friend, some labeled "Colchicum montanum (doerfleri - pubescent leaved phase)", and others labeled C. montanum (glabrous leaved).  I have uploaded a photo taken today of this pubescent plant, is it correctly Merendera doerfleri?  Googling, I get lots of hits for both Merendera doerfleri and Colchicum doerfleri, and with some C. montanum mixed in, so I'm confused, although thinking that it is a Merendera.

In my photo, on the right is a very pubescent form with smaller deeper pink flowers, and on the left is a less pubescent form, with hairs finer and mostly on the leaf margins, and with larger paler pink flowers.

The other one, labeled as C. montanum (not pictured here), has leaves now that look very similar although completely glabrous, and flowers in August with pink flowers having long strap-like petals.  I am assuming this can stay at Colchicum montanum.

Comments on the C. or M. doerfleri status?

[Maggi Young]

Your plants look to have very definite tubes, McMark, so I'll stick with the Colchicum appellation, rather than Merendera.... but as to the doerfleri part, I'm not sure..

[Sinchets]

I don't know if it helps, but the poctures I have seen for Colchicum doerfleri in Bulgaria appear to have fine hairs along the leaf margins.

[LucS]

Not sure if someone posted Bulbocodium vernum in flower yet. Well here it is.

[Herminarik]

Good evening Luc, I like very much the spring flowering Colchicums, among others Colchicum bulbocodium. Last weekend I was in souther Hungary and I made these pictures of Colchicum bulbocodium var. versicolor. The albino forms (3 in whole locality) were fascinating. Igor

[Maggi Young]

The albino is beautiful, Igor.... were they as strong growing as the coloured type, do you think?

[Hristo]

Very nice indeed Igor, are these flowring in large populations? We went to see if we coud find the western populations of C.diampolis in Bulgaria, sadly the range of this species is now severly restricted and the few stations remaining are under threat from changes in land usage.