Colchicum 2011 September/October

[WimB]

3 colchicums bivoane's flowers and pedicel started to wither. I didn't harm the bulbs while digging but do you think they will survive?

Don't worry, just replant them as soon as possible and they'll keep on growing perfectly.

[Arda Takan]

Today me and my friend have found largest colchicum bulb I have ever seen. It had 6-7 flowers

[pehe]

Colchicum autumnale alboplenum looks good today

[Hagen Engelmann]

Congratulations for this fine group, Poul

[WimB]

I have to agree with Hagen, that's very impressive, Poul

[pehe]

Thank you Hagen and Wim! But that's nothing compared to your Colchicum collections.

Poul

[Hagen Engelmann]

Poul, Colchicum autumnale ALBUM PLENUM only grows in a  garden of a connoisseur!!!

[Hagen Engelmann]

For a long time I knew GLORY OF THREAVE only from the book "Autumn bulbs".
This season I saw it in nature first time.
Very good reddish flowers.

[Peter II]

Colchicum autumnale album

[Hagen Engelmann]

Peter II, das ist Colchicum byzantinum ALBUM = INNOCENCE. Oder ein völlig unüblicher Typ. Woher sind die Pflanzen?

[Diane Clement]

Peter II, das ist Colchicum byzantinum ALBUM = INNOCENCE.

Hagen, doesn't "Innocence" have pink tips at the end of the petals?

[Hagen Engelmann]

Yes Diane so it is normally.

I asked Peter II, where the plants came from.

The flowers look very compact with broad tubes.
I never saw such C autumnale.
May be, the number of flowers can give an answer.

[Oakwood]

Colchicum autumnale album

Hagen, Peter II, Diane - it is typical C. autumnale albino form... not at all C. byzantinum.

[Diane Clement]

Hagen, Peter II, Diane - it is typical C. autumnale albino form... not at all C. byzantinum. 

It's a more sturdy form than my C autumnale album

[Peter II]

Hallo Hagen,

die Zwiebeln sind von N.L. Chrestensen (Erfurt).