Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: mark smyth on February 01, 2008, 07:22:45 PM
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Here are a few things from today. I ran out of sunlight to take more Colchicum photos
Colchicum diampolis new to me this year. Less than 6"/15cm high and purest white
This C. kessellringii has 11 flowers fully open and just visible. Unfortunately the are ruined by the high winds this week. I didnt think they were so variable
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This pink C. diampolis is caused by the low sun at 15.50 today - oh I dont like extending day length. The white ones, with a slightest tink of pink, were photographed at 15.28
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What a pleasure you have to see them flower for the first time (diampolis). Thank you Mark
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Little beauty with the sun : Colchicum szovitzii 'Tivi'
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I tried 'Tivi' in the garden and it is much larger than those in a pot. This summer all will go out
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At last the sun is out to open up the Colchicum. This is Colchicum szovitsii 'Snow White'.Just bought last autumn so no credit to me, it, as usual with my bulbs, is growing outside in a gravely bed topped dressed with chopped leaves. How different is it to Tivi? Hard to tell without them being grown together
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It's a beauty Susan !
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All my Tivi are as white as the driven snow. I'll post a photo later if I can get home soon
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Wow - real bautyful pix you show here! :D
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I have Colchicum minutum to swap. Two groups are doing excellent in a trough. Once the leaves go dormant I'll be lifting them and will know how many I have to spare.
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A day late but here are mine for Susan et al along with my soboliferum that's falling apart and part of my minutum colony
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Yeh, that's what my Colchicum minutum would look like if it had flowered this year. Wouldn't have bought it from PC if I'd known that. :( His website shows dinkie little flowers growing out of bare earth and no leaves. >:(
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Mark,
My soboliferum are not at all as yours
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Yes I saw that but some of mine flowered in the autumn. I've never seen so many flowers on mine before. They are just about over now.
Yours are great Dom!
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yours too Mark ! Mine look like sea's anemone !!! as if they put their arms above their head against sun or rain.......with a lot of imagination !
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Mark that tivi is a beautiful plant and very desirable but I find it difficult to believe it is a szovitsii. can you say what its origin is?
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Where I bought? Pass. I used to keep all my bulb invoices and got scared one day so I shredded them. It could be Janis?
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Shred your invoices? :-X Good one, Mark. I'm waiting for the day when a family member stumbles on one of my bulb invoices and hits the roof. ;D
I have saved my invoices (I save everything!). If my executors don't trash my garden journals, they and the invoices might be of interest to someone in the future. But as long as I'm alive, they're embarrassing.
Here's my Colchicum szovitsii 'Tivi' (and yes, it appears on an invoice a year or two ago).
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one of the last ones
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Jim is 'Tivi' growing in a glass container?
Dom that's a great pink
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Mark, 'Tivi' is in a cut-down plastic soft drink bottle. Very elegant, right?
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Mark, 'Tivi' is in a cut-down plastic soft drink bottle. Very elegant, right?
Quote from Jim re name McKenney:
The family is from Scotland via Northern Ireland
There's often a clue, huh? ;)
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I figured someone would pick up on that right away.
I know I'm among friends here!
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Yes, Jim, we can recognise someone else born with our Celtic thrifty genes quite easily 8)
Just had some more emails saying how much fun these jokey asides are: Glad that they are amusing folks... I believe this friendly chat and banter to be a real key to this forum's popularity and your feedback confirms this........ I sometimes hear ( though not first hand , I regret to say) that some regard the informal ripostes and comments as being " too much"... I can only say that I regard such conversations as being part and parcel of a normal social intercourse ....... 8) :D and part of what makes the SRGC the success it is.
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To add some more Scottish blood....... I have a set of Grandparents on each side of my parents that were Scottish. I don't know how "pure" they were (i.e I don't know the generations before that), but effectively at that level I am of "half" Scottish descent. Also worthwhile noting that I have English, Irish and West Indian ancestors as well. ;D And my father was a New Zealander.
So I really should fit in quite well here on the forums shouldn't I? ??? ;D