Colchicums Early 2009

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very nice Mark ! Any idea how tall the leaves grow ??

[mark smyth]

Luc, I dont pay attention to Colchicum leaves. If you want them we have to be willing to put up with the leaves. I can nswer you query in the summer if you can wait.

[annew]

I realise these poor things look ratty, but you have to give them points for stamina. This clump of C. autumnale alboplena (I think) has been in flower continuously since September.

[Anthony Darby]

Very nice Mark ! Any idea how tall the leaves grow ??

They would be smallish - rather like cupanii I think?

[Maggi Young]

I realise these poor things look ratty, but you have to give them points for stamina. This clump of C. autumnale alboplena (I think) has been in flower continuously since September.

I'd give them points for more than stamina, Anne, you really have to salute a plant which will give that kind of service at this time of year! And probably only able to do that because it is double ... no sex, no death 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very nice Mark ! Any idea how tall the leaves grow ??

They would be smallish - rather like cupanii I think?

Thanks Anthony - it is now on my wants list... 

[mark smyth]

Anthony, the leaves would be larger. The flower is about the same size as Tulipa humilis

[Anthony Darby]

But not like the big weeds that take over a flower bed. I bought Colchicum graecum from PC because he said it would grow nicely with Leucojum autumnale. Aye right! My Yucca has smaller leaves.

[dominique]

the last babies !!!

Colchicum kesselringii
 Colchicum munzurae
 Colchicum szovitzii Tivi
 Colchicum szovitzii Tivi

[Rafa]

VERY beautiful plants Dom, specially Colchicum kesselringii

[BULBISSIME]

Nice plants Dominique ! as usual !

[mark smyth]

This photo shows the lovely green tube of Colchicum szovitsii.

One of my very dark C. kessellringiis. I really need to get a tiny paint brush to cross this with C. luteum.

[Boyed]

Nice colchicums, Dominique.
As I mostly like goblet shapes with rounded petals, colchicum szovitsii is more appealing to me. Here bisides common pink and less common white forms of it, there are sometimes bi-coloured (white with pink edges) and dark pink forms with dark tubes (as with colchicum speciosum Atrorubens) accur in nature. Though I never seen them offered in trade.

[BULBISSIME]

Here are my first Colchicum kesselringii :
'MY CHOICIE'



And a white form : 'SNOW OF HIGHLAND' which I found quite different in shape from the type



They don"t want to open widely....it's a bit cloudy here today 

[mark smyth]

Those are very well grown.