Colchicum 2010

[PeterT]

Thanks Fred, My alpinum is smaller with fewer flowers, I missed them this year though, they flowerd in a paper bag  the leaves are up and they look happy though, now I have potted them
 

[hadacekf]

Great Colchicums all.
My white colchicums.

[David Nicholson]

I don't grow any Colchicum but I'm really going to have to try some next year. I have a spot in mind on a slightly sloping bank which presently houses some far too rampant Hemerocallis that I intend to thin out when they die back. Recommendations please on what species I should try, planting depths etc.

[Hagen Engelmann]

It`s a pleasure to see your galleries, Thomas and Franz.
Colchicum geben schon was her!!!
Poul, do you have C. corsicum outside???
Here are C. speciosum ALBUM and C. speciosum RUBRUM.

[Boyed]

It`s a pleasure to see your galleries, Thomas and Franz.
Colchicum geben schon was her!!!
Poul, do you have C. corsicum outside???
Here are C. speciosum ALBUM and C. speciosum RUBRUM.

Hagen,

What source are your colchicum speciosusm Rubrum from?
Do you know the difference between c. speciosusm Atrorubens and c. speciosusm Rubrum?

[Hagen Engelmann]

Can`t understand, why you don`t like colchicum en masse so much. Colchicum make a real autumn season and if you plant the bulbs near each other it`s a wonderful view. Or?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I won't object to that Hagen !
The Colchicum look stunning in your border !! 

[PeterT]

Agreed Luc, Its fantastic! just wait untill I get a bigger garden.....

[Hagen Engelmann]

Peter, begin with Colchicum corsicum

[PeterT]

Hagen, you have a beautifull garden, I envey your colchicum displays, but just so that you know- I have three forms of corsicum already, I shall spare you the list of other species I grow but I can tell you it ranges from macrophyllum down the scale to minutum, 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Peter, it`s a pleasure to meet such a fine colchicum enthusiast here. By the way, can you help me with recent English/Scottish or Irish cultivars???
My natural border for collecting of colchicum is our climate. I have no frame.

[PeterT]

If I had room for them in my garden I would plant them in the ground too, even colchicum persicum and macrophyllum do not need to be coverd, I keep them in pots because I dont have space to plant them all. 

[Diane Clement]

My colchicums in the garden have done really well this year, but all the early ones are looking very battered now.  Some of the later ones are still coming through so I hope to get some pictures later this week.  In the greenhouse, they don't suffer the same battering, although they don't always last very long.

Colchicum macrophyllum from Norman Stevens
Colchicum aff confusum from Rannveig Wallis

[PeterT]

This Colchicum also came from Rannveig, in 2006 but I have lost its name,
I bought the other in 2002, this is the first time it has flowerd

[arillady]

Hagen what a beautiful border - so well placed.