Colchicum 2010

[Maggi Young]

Hagen what a beautiful border - so well placed.

 May I suggest to those of you who have not yet visited Hagen's website that you do do  to see more pictures of the lovely Engelmann gardens...
http://www.engelmannii.de/       

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks for reminding us Maggi, I had a wonderful stroll through Herr Engelmann's garden !!

Many congratulations Hagen, it really looks superb !!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you Luc.

[David Nicholson]

Hagen beautiful gardens and a beautiful house too.

[Hans A.]

Great Colchicums everybody!
Actual in flower C. variegatum and another fine Colchicum species.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hans, variegatum is here a problem child. If we had a little bit more sun ......
I like the tessellated forms too.

[pehe]

Hagen, what a harmonic and lovely garden you have!

I've got this colchicum laetum last year. I do not like the somewhat broken and patchy colouring. Is that normal or is it virused?

Poul

[PeterT]

I dont know enough about it to say  but I would bin it  , if mine does well I can send you one next year

[Boyed]

Hans, variegatum is here a problem child. If we had a little bit more sun ......
I like the tessellated forms too.

Hagen,

I also heard from many people that variegatum need sunny position to do well. But my colleague from moscow succesfully grows it under shade. Mine is planted in semi-shade and blooms heavily. maybe we grow different clones adapted to different climates.

[ranunculus]

Colchicum images that I captured yesterday in Brian & Jo Walker's lovely garden in Shirley (Midlands), prior to presenting a lecture to the Alpine Garden Society Warwickshire Group in Stratford-upon-Avon last evening.

COLCHICUM SPECIOSUM (First four)

[Hans A.]

Superb Colchicum pics Cliff - like especially the croci of the last pic... 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Very lovely colchicum, Cliff. But where are the crocus in pic Nr.4???

[ranunculus]

Very lovely colchicum, Cliff. But where are the crocus in pic Nr.4???

Ah Hagen & Hans (and most of the alpine world), well spotted!  Obviously, in the haste of naming and posting, I put crocus instead of cyclamen ... the old saying; 'More haste, less speed' is quite appropriate.  

[Gail]

Do you know the difference between c. speciosusm Atrorubens and c. speciosusm Rubrum?

I was just looking at A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners by E A Bowles.  He says "Many dark purple forms have been selected and named.  I think the best are the two listed as rubrum and atrorubens which are so much alike that even when growing close together I sometimes have to look at their labels to be certain to which stocks they belong.  Perhaps rubrum is rather paler and in some seasons flowers a little earlier."

This is what I have as 'Atrorubens'

[LucS]

With all these lovely big-flower plants one would forget that a number of small species are coming in flower too:
Colchicum cupanii var. bertolonii
Colchicum lingulatum
Colchicum decaisnei
Colchicum baytopiorum