Colchicum 2010

[fermi de Sousa]

Some of these spring flowering types are astounding I didn't realise the variety that is out there!

The autumn ones here continue, with Colchicum lingulatum


A similar one I grew from Seedex as C. pusillum which it isn't




The slugs also liked this Colchicum montanum (syn merendera montana)


A poor pic of C. corsicum (grown from seed) unfortunately devoured by a slug overnight! -it wouldn't have been more than a mouthful!


One I got from Otto, Colchicum "Conquest"


cheers
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[Ragged Robin]

Love Colchicum "Conquest" Fermi the pattern is so delicate - how long do your Colchicum last in the season?

[Lesley Cox]

Don't know why Bulbocodium vernum never made it to our permitted list. It should have been imported years ago. Both white and rosy are very lovely.

[Herminarik]

Good evening, very shortly to the Bulbocodium locality in southern Hungary. We were in two places – the first one takes the surface of cca 30x30 metres and there we founded these three albino plants. The second locality is very small and there were only a few plants of C. bulbocodium together with Crocus reticulatus. What about the number of plants (in first place), the safeguard explained us that there is cca 17 plants per m2 and that this population is quite stable. The albino plants we saw were a little bit tenderer as rose form.

 

[Herminarik]

and now some lovely Colchicums we pictured this weekend. Cheers Igor & Pavla

[TheOnionMan]

and now some lovely Colchicums we pictured this weekend. Cheers Igor & Pavla

Igor, Golden Baby is a cute one.  Do you have any information on this selection? 

The flowers on 'Snow of Highland' and 'Yetti' look similar, what distinguishes these two varieties?

[Herminarik]

Hi Mark, both forms (`Yetti` and `Snow of Highlands`) I received from Leonid B. last year, so I had not a lot of possibility to compare both platns as regards the appearance. But what about the flowers, on the first sight I observed that `Yetti ` has very long and narrow petals (cca 20mm long and 5mm wide) and the other difference is that the petals are rounded at the end. Whereas `Snow of Highlands` has the petals broad (7-10mm) and a little bit shorter and the end of each petal is lanceolate (the plant seems as a Crocus). As regards `Golden Baby` - I have no more information then what Leonid writes on his homepage. Cheers Igor

[Boyed]

colchicum bifolium (native species)

[Herminarik]

Good evening Zhirair, your plants of C. bifolium are really splendid. I read about this species in Flora of Turkey yesterday and there was shown that it is the synonym of C. szovitsii. Is there a great difference between C. szovitsii and C. bifolium? We grow neither C. szovitsii nor C. bifolium but we would like to try to grow this Colchicum here – do you plan to sell a few corms of C. bifolium this summer? Cheers Igor

[Kenneth K]

At last the snow has disappeared from the garden. The earliest flowers are there just under the snow. Among those are a couple of Colchicum.
1 Colchicum munzurense. Bulbs from Gothenburg Botanical Garden.
2. Colchicum serpentinum (syn Colchicum falcifolium)

[Janis Ruksans]

Most spring Colchicums in greenhouse is almost over. But still very nice is Colchicum luteum with brightest yellow flowers. This stock is supposed as coming very long ago from Afganistan, grown later in Holland but then suddenly lost. It remained in few amateur collections from where I got my bulbs, too. It is larger than forms of C. luteum from former USSR.
Janis

[Boyed]

Good evening Zhirair, your plants of C. bifolium are really splendid. I read about this species in Flora of Turkey yesterday and there was shown that it is the synonym of C. szovitsii. Is there a great difference between C. szovitsii and C. bifolium? We grow neither C. szovitsii nor C. bifolium but we would like to try to grow this Colchicum here – do you plan to sell a few corms of C. bifolium this summer? Cheers Igor

Igor,
There is obvious difference between colchicum szovitsii and colchicum bifoluim - shape of flower, colouring and number of leaves. In difference of colchicum szovitsii (which has 3 or more leaves), colchicum bifolium has 2 leaves (though it could have the third false leaf (not fully developed) from very large bulbs). Colchicum bifolium always have (pale) magenta shading from outside of the petals (from tube to sentral back of petals), has slightly different shape of flower. If you grow both species next to each other you will easily see the difference. For me, colchicum bifolium is more beautiful.

[Janis Ruksans]

I really can't understand how many very different plants are joined under name Colchicum szowitsii - small and large blooming etc., etc. On my report about spring Crocus trip I posted very deep lilac form of C. szowitsii from Turkey, near Akseki (Gembos yaila). I repeat it here.
Very opposit are those two very large blooming forms from Armenia - purest white TIVI and slightly lilac, later fading to pure white VARDAHOVIT. Both named by vilages, where original plants were collected by Arnis Seisums. Identification confirmed by Karin Person.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

This one may be is Colchicum robustum. Named on field, not checked later.
Janis

[TheOnionMan]

Just a follow-up photo to a photo I posted earlier of the flowering Colchicum doerfleri.  I have two forms growing side by side, one with hirsute edges to the leaves, but another that I see most every day when I walk around the garden, that is almost white with hairs on the leaves.