Colchicum 2011 September/October

[Hagen Engelmann]

The show goes on:

Colchicum x agrippinum
WILLIAM DIJKES
VIOLET QUEEN
Colchicum ciclicicum PURPUREUM

[Hagen Engelmann]

some tessellated cultivars

BEACONSFIELD
NANCY LINDSAY (behind)

[Hagen Engelmann]

intensive tessellated

Colchicum macrophyllum

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VIOLET QUEEN will goes to a darker color

[Hagen Engelmann]

This AUTUMN QUEEN has lost her white throat

[PeterT]

These pictures are wonderfull Hagen, alpinum, corsicum and some others are flowering here, and of course your Herbstkugel  

[Hagen Engelmann]

Peter -
and you like the globular flowers???

[Diane Clement]

The colchicums have been excellent here this year.  One of my favourites is Nancy Lindsay.  I bought 2 corms ten years ago, and have divided and divided it, now I have 4 good clumps.  It is usually the first, starting in mid August, and it continues for ages,
Colchicum autumnmale "Nancy Lindsay"

[Diane Clement]

Also in our front garden, C byzantinum "Innocence" (with one stray pink).  This was also bought as 2 corms at the same time as Nancy Lindsay but has only increased slowly, so this clump is the full result of the original.

[Diane Clement]

And then the difficulties begin, as I have bought a few others in the last two years and I don't remember which is which.  The first is possibly William Dykes or Glory of Heemstede, but I haven't a clue as to the second.  

[Hagen Engelmann]

Diane, the pink byzantinum went back from a white???

WILLIAM DYKES has the same size like NANCY LINDSAY and is one shade lighter.   It looks much more silvery. But the  shape of the flower is very egg-shaped. So I mean, yours is not WILLIAM DYKES.

[zephirine]

One of my favourites is Nancy Lindsay...It is usually the first, starting in mid August, and it continues for ages

It is a favourite for me too, Diane. An excellent and reliable Colchicum indeed! We had 10 minutes hail a couple of days ago, so they are not as good-looking as yours, but still there!

[Diane Clement]

Diane, the pink byzantinum went back from a white???

WILLIAM DYKES has the same size like NANCY LINDSAY and is one shade lighter.   It looks much more silvery. But the  shape of the flower is very egg-shaped. So I mean, yours is not WILLIAM DYKES.

Thanks, Hagen, I can rule that one out.  The C byzantinum is odd, it has had a pink one for a few years, but I am not sure if it was there at the beginning.  The oldest picture I can find at the moment showing the pink one is 2007, (poor) picture below 

[mark smyth]

Just notice my Merenderas are in flower

[Hagen Engelmann]

any pics, Mark