Colchicum 2011 September/October

[WimB]

Poul,

love your white species. My C. agrippinum has been growing in one of the warmest spots of my garden for 2 years now and it seems to like that.

[Tim Ingram]

Not many colchicums in our garden but I had bivonae many years ago and it makes a stunning clump! Must try more.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Wim, Poul,
C x agrippinum is growing here in the garden since 6 or 7 years. The only problem is the late frost in march and april. The young leaves are very damageable. So it would be good to find a garden place with no winter sun and cold in early spring.

Tim,
your C bivonae is splitting very good.

[Hagen Engelmann]

new and very good in color and size: a German cultivar with an English name Colchicum speciosum WINE CUP. It is really an eyecatcher!!!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Here is another spectacular plant. Colchicum bivonae blooms the first season in our garden. Size like a big C. speciosum, very very globular. No white throat but white middle rips. Never saw such a flower. Came from a generous forum member. I`m so happy!!!

[Maggi Young]

You have a marvelous selection, Hagen. 'Wine Cup' is lovely and well  named.

[WimB]

'Wine Cup' is very nice, Hagen. As is C. bivonae...

A few which are flowering here now:

Colchicum autumnale 'Nancy Lindsay'
Colchicum byzantinum 'Album'
Colchicum laetum
Colchicum 'Lilac Wonder'
Colchicum speciosum 'Album'

[Hagen Engelmann]

Wim, if you would like some more bulbs of Colchicum laetum .........

WINE CUP is a C. speciosum.

[WimB]

Wim, if you would like some more bulbs of Colchicum laetum .........

WOW, impressive  

 I forgot, Colchicum 'Waterlily' is flowering here too.

[fleurbleue]

Nice pics, all fellows  I'm envious now 

[wooden shoe]

Really a spectacular show. The bivonea is really pretty too.
I hope I can contribute a bit more:

The first to flower was the little Colchicum corsicum. But now the cultivars really get going. Unfortunately I do not have names for the cultivars or either the wrong name. Hagen (or anyone else) can you help me out?

Thank you,
Rob

[jshields]

I've been eating my heart out over all these pictures of Colchicum in bloom.  Now, finally:  my first Colchicum flowers are showing up -- C. cilicicum, probably bought originally as 'Purpureum'.  Now I'm feeling much less left-out.

Jim

[Maggi Young]

I've been eating my heart out over all these pictures of Colchicum in bloom.  Now, finally:  my first Colchicum flowers are showing up -- C. cilicicum, probably bought originally as 'Purpureum'.  Now I'm feeling much less left-out.

Jim

Ah Jim, now you know how some of us feel looking at your plants!

[Oakwood]

My colchicums from Donetsk garden - Colchicum umbrosum ex Crimea, Colchicum speciosum The Giant, and some corms already planted but not yet flowered of a true fall-blooming Colchicum laetum -  a gift from one my Caucasian friend from his collection

[Oakwood]

Wim, if you would like some more bulbs of Colchicum laetum .........

WINE CUP is a C. speciosum.

Hagen, it is Lilac Wonder on your pic, not C. laetum. I think there is any true C. laetum in Europe bulb culture..... instead of it is usually sold some C. autumnale hybrids or C. umbrosum at best.
True C. laetum from wild you could see here
http://www.plantarium.ru/page/image/id/33595.html
http://www.plantarium.ru/page/image/id/24176.html