Colchicum 2011 September/October

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hello Anne,
I got some very special ferns this spring and lost my head.
Now you have an answer .

Colchicum is a really good genus for nice garden plants and if you can develop some feelings......

[johnw]

The last hurrah of Colchicums here after a long flowering season.

johnw

[Michael J Campbell]

Colchicum cupanii,

[annew]

I like the pin-stripes!

[WimB]

Beautiful, those C. cupanii!

[Peter II]

Colchicum bornmuelleri

[Natalia]

Last flowers Colchicum cilicicum Purpurascens - soon predict the beginning of frosts.

[Arda Takan]

Such a beauty Natalia

[Natalia]

Thank you

[Arda Takan]

I gathered some bulbs from mountains last month. But I wonder when will they show leaves? Were they fully dormant during flowering period?

[I.S.]

  Arda, it depends to species, In some species the leaves start to grow in autumn, in others after winter. For C. bivonae February or march. It depends also to your native climate when your temperature will rise up.

[Arda Takan]

Thank you

[Natalia]

Arda, in the autumn flowering Colchicum in our part of the leaves appear in May next year.

[krisderaeymaeker]

The leaves of Colchicum troodii are almost like some Ophrys ...
Picture 1 : Colchicum troodii
Picture 2 : the real Ophrys .

[krisderaeymaeker]

Some more evidences of the unusual season here...

Now in flower  :

Colchicum doerflerii , flowers normally here in january (sometimes a bit earlier but never at the beginning of november) (1&2)

Colchicum brachyphyllum flowers normally in january or february ...(3)