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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: WimB on January 12, 2012, 02:44:06 PM
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A couple of Colchicums in flower here now:
Colchicum hungaricum 'Velebit Star'
Colchicum triphyllum
and Colchicum luteum 'Vahsh'
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A couple of Colchicums in flower here now:
Colchicum hungaricum 'Velebit Star'
Colchicum triphyllum
and Colchicum luteum 'Vahsh'
Spring is in the air Wim ...at least in Wingene . Very beautifull but I have to wait here another month ore more ?
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Hello friends. Just found Colchicum kesselringii open.
John B
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C. kesselringii is a very beautiful Colchicum, John. One of my favorites, here they are just showing their noses.
Do you grow them outside without protection? You probably don't get a lot of rain in summer in Kansas?
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Wow, not only galanthus at the begin of 2012,
Thank you Wim and John.
My way is to a glass house.
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Wow, not only galanthus at the begin of 2012,
Thank you Wim and John.
My way is to a glass house.
You're welcome, Hagen! A bit of colour against all the white Galanthus force for a change ;)
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Beautiful Colchicum Wim and John - C.luteum and kesselringii belong to my favorites!
Here also C. kesselringii is flowering in the garden.
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Thank you Wim,Hagen,Hans. Wim it is outside no protection. I also had C. luteum open the
first week & a half of Jan. but did not take a pic. Here is a pic of the environment
of kesselringii. And one of my corner lot in winter. There are 3 large beds and 3 medium
beds not seen in this view.
John
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Colchicum minutum has started to flower four weeks earlier than last year. Some dates I photographed it are below
13th Feb 2008
26th Jan 2009
26th Feb 2010
16th March 2011
photos from previous years
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Colchicum minutum has started to flower four weeks earlier than last year. Some dates I photographed it are below
13th Feb 2008
26th Jan 2009
26th Feb 2010
16th March 2011
photos from previous years
Very nice, those Colchicums with their small petals! But it seems to be flowering a lot earlier than normal, like a lot of other plants.
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C.luteum and kesselringii belong to my favorites!
Here also C. kesselringii is flowering in the garden.
I can live with that statement Hans. This two are also some of my favorite Colchicums. Kesselringii also flowers here. At least the common form , have more forms of this one ...
Again could not resist to take some pictures ..... Also Colchicum robustum is almost in flower here...
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Now that Colchicum is really lovely, is it as small as it looks.
Angie :)
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Now that Colchicum is really lovely, is it as small as it looks.
Angie :)
Oh yes Angie .It is a dwarf but it also helps to keep it in good light and as cool as possible during wintertime. It is plunged outside in sandbed and gets no heat .Only some protection against to much winterwet . Next year I want to try it outside in the rockgarden ...
Have even some tighter forms here , but they are not in flower yet .
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I thought it was tiny as the gravel in the pot looked large to me. Now I think that is worth growing. I have some of the more common ones around the garden but this one is something special. Hope you post pictures when the others flower.
Will source this one out.
Thats whats great about this forum you see so much lovely plants and also get the information on how they are grown.
Angie :)
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I thought it was tiny as the gravel in the pot looked large to me. Now I think that is worth growing. I have some of the more common ones around the garden but this one is something special. Hope you post pictures when the others flower.
Will source this one out.
Thats whats great about this forum you see so much lovely plants and also get the information on how they are grown.
Angie :)
Ofcourse, the gravel is an indication. I trie to remember to post some more forms Angie . If I forget please keep an eye on the Flemisch forum or remember me....
Oh Yes the forum keep us wel informed and give us a lot of whisdom. I stil learn every day !
Please sent me a PB in summertime , I have maybe some bulbs to share ....
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I found that Kevock nurseries have Colchicum kesselringii in their catalogue. Well worth ordering after seeing your plant.
Angie :)
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Am I alone in seeing very few flowers on my Colchicums in the garden.
The leaves are now coming through - a great relief as I thought I had lost them
Colchicum autumnale bloomed as normal in most clumps.
Colchicum variegatum appears to have been wiped out, but I was glad to see Colchicum sanguicolle appears to have survived but again without flowering
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I had a lot of damage here too Art. Most have survived though. C 'falcifolium' is flowering well, serpentinum and diampolis only just survived. no flowers on luteum yet but the bulbs were fine... only one flower on what was a 4 inch pot full of mirzoviae but some similar ones are ok. Colchicum seeds from Jim Archibald are germinating well at the moment.
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Do we need two different clones of C. kesselringii in order to set seed?
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I'm not sure. I had little success with most Colchicums to set seed, and if they do you might overlook it easily. Last year I have had seed on a sole Colchicum hungaricum 'Velebit Star'. This was polinated using a brush for there are not much insects at this time of year. For others were I had success, I had more individuals, but I'm not sure if that were clones.
I would say it's not impossible, but I might be wrong. Anyway, cross pollination is usually more successfull.
Maybe other forumists might have pollen. I can't help you because my C. kesseliringii are just one year seedlings under a layer of snow now.
Rob
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Cheers Rob. Thanks for your advice. I'm fairly new to Colchicums, but am becoming enamoured with them, and need to learn fast. Any assistance most welcome.
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this is the clone I grow.
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would love to aquire many different clones. Are there many?
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this is the clone I grow.
Lucky you - it looks to be an excellent clone.
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Its the only one I have Art. Is this a species that you grow? Maybe we could swap a bulb or two of it?
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Colchicum bifolium, from Lithuanian Rare Bulb Garden :)
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Its the only one I have Art. Is this a species that you grow? Maybe we could swap a bulb or two of it?
Ron
I lost my only bulb last winter.
I would love to get seed - may then get variability and many more flowering plants :)
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Lovely YT.
Art I have been very busy with the paint brush so ..... fingers crossed. If I get any I'll let you know.
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Thanks Ron - fingers firmly crossed
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Colchicum ritchii flowering in Jordan last week, in the mountains
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Wonderful. :o :o
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Again could not resist to take some pictures ..... Also Colchicum robustum is almost in flower here...
Colchicum (merendera) robustum in flower for at least three weeks now.
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Thanks Luc. These are such good value, flowering very prettily and for a good long time. I am really being drawn to these smaller Colchicums. Very nice. probably been asked a million times here, but any growing tips for this genus?
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Flowering now that the snow has melted is what I think is Colchicum cupanii. I was worried when they did not flower in autumn. Now I realise it was an effect of the long, dry autumn. Another plant flowered under the snow a few centimetres away.
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The "autumn" flowerers are starting here in the Southern Hemisphere!
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cheers
fermi
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A second flower is appearing on this out of time Colchicum. I have been growing this as C.cupanii and it flowered as normal in autumn 2010. Two other plants have also started to flower now that the snow has melted in various parts of the garden.
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It's my first season growing colchicums and very fun :)
Colchicum luteum 'Golden Baby'
Colchicum trigynum
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Colchicum kesselringii
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This is a Colchicum I received 20 years ago as "Lilac Major" - is it the same as "Lillac Wonder"?
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Another one is known in our local AGS Vic Group as "Mrs Craig's Colchicum" - it looks somewhat the same to me but came from a different source.
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Colchicum cilicium is now in full flower
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cheers
fermi
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Colchicum kesselringii, special form
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other forms of Colchicum kesselringii
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Jan
Do you remeber the country where the brilliant purple striped kesselringii origiantes from?
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Yes, I remember. ;D ;D ;D
I hope this year will be the seeds.
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Colchicum luteum
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This is apparently "The Giant'
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I'm still trying to get the correct name for this colchicum which came from one of the seedexes as C. bivonae which it isn't being only a touch taller than C. corsicum,
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It produced a lot of seed and this is what it looked like at the beginning of summer
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Any clues to its ID would help it get into the seedex
cheers
fermi
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Jan,
I've never seen Colchicum kesselringii colour forms like that. WOW!!!!!!! I have just purchased this species again, having lost it a few years ago. Only a tiny bulb though, so it will still be a couple of years until flowering I think. At least I have it again. That dark striped one of yours is just amazing. I didn't realise there were other colour forms at all until now. Thanks so much for showing us. 8)
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Some colchicum species flowering for now in SE Ukraine
Colchicum ancyrense, ex Crimea
Colchicum bifolium, ex Armenia
Colchicum bifolium Tivi, ex Armenia
Colchicum kesselringii My Choice, ex Tadzhikistan
Colchicum luteum Minion, ex Tadzhikistan
Colchicum luteum Vahsh, ex Tadzhikistan
Merendera mirzoevae, ex Armenia
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more colchicums...
Colchicum munzurense, ex Turkey
Colchicum triphyllum, ex Moldova
Bulbocodium versicolor, big-flowered forms ex Ukraine-Moldova borders
Colchicum x albertii, ex Central Asia (natural hybrid of C. luteum x C. kesselringii)
Merendera trigyna, ex Caucasus
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Dimitri,
Great Colchicums. I don't think I've seen half of those species before. The bifolium looks like it has excellent width of petals and substance..... very nice. I grow luteum and just recently purchase kesselringii again, but I've not seen the majority of the others you've shown. I didn't realise there were so many spring flowering Colchicums. :o Thanks so much for showing us.
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With all my pleasure, Paul! ;D
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very nice Dima!
Most of my winter flowering Colchicums died during December 2010
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Here still are blooming spring Colchicums
The first picture is of hybrid between C. keselringii x luteum, selected by Arnis and named 'Janis' at my 50th Anniversary
Follows two other siblings of it (I think they all were collected in Tadjikistan near Tovilj-Dara). They are known under name Colchicum albertii, too and Karin Person tends to regard them as species - result of past introgression from C. luteum into C. keselringii. So named "hybrid" is fertile and seedlings slightly varie from whitish yellow to light yellow but allways with yellow hint. They just this spring bloomed with me for the first time. By Karin Person artificial crosses between luteum and keselringii very rarely get some results. There are known only two reports about such cross. So I would tend to name this "hybrid" as C. albertii.
On next two pictures Colchicum keselringii - the first from Jan Jilek seeds as collected in Afganistan, on another mine own from Shing - N Tadjikistan. Both are very similar, but C. keselringii really is very variable.
And as last three are spring Colchicums from Turkey, just identified by Karin Person.
The first was collected at Gembos Yaila just on parcel where started building of new house - Cochicum szowitsii subsp. brachyphyllum - one of brightest and one of my favourites
Another is Colchicum serpentinum - another superb beauty. The pot was not replanted for 3 years, so very abbundant blooming.
The last is C. triphyllum - quite common species with large rounded flowers.
Janis
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fascinating plants :)
Does the hybridising cross work both ways?
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Between C. luteum and C. kesselringii?
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Between C. luteum and C. kesselringii?
I don't know. I cited Karin. I tried to cross them both ways but without success. C. albertii set seeds very well. Pollination were maid by bees, so I didn't know pollen parent. Both - keselringii and luteum set seeds, too but progeny allways looks as mother plant. All three species allways are placed side by side - so no problems for bees to crosspollinate them.
Janis
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Dear Janis - very showy plants as usually!)) so your kess x lut hybrids are more like pure kess species plants, not like that I've got from Leonid - Yeti and Snow of Highland. Veru interesting plants of Cochicum szowitsii subsp. brachyphyllum!!!!! ;D
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SRGC experts - Would someone who knows Colchicum please take a look at Jon Ballards posts on the AGS website,
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/Colchicum/Colchicum+psaridis/11108/#lastcontribution
and advise if his plant is C. psaridis, ( C. zahnii, according to Kew ), or if not, what his plant is? Thank you in advance. ;D ;D
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I find colchicum confusing! I think psaridis/zahnii usually has two, or sometimes three leaves... Jon's pix show four leaves......... :-\
This is a link to a large number of colchicum isotypes http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/Access.cfm?CurrentPage=1&Col=4&IsoCode=GR&Fam=all&SubColl=all&Genus=Colchicum&FullNameCache=all (http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/Access.cfm?CurrentPage=1&Col=4&IsoCode=GR&Fam=all&SubColl=all&Genus=Colchicum&FullNameCache=all)
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My first summer flowering Colchicum is as always Colchicum parnassicum
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Colchicum montanum has started flowering in the garden
Poul
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The Colchicum montanum bed today. There are no signs of the ones I have under glass.
Poul
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I dont want them flowering now. It's a sign autumn is coming
While weeding I must have removed the label for this plant. Is it tenorii?
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While weeding I must have removed the label for this plant.....
Another argument against weeding.....
Jim
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The Colchicum montanum bed today. There are no signs of the ones I have under glass.
Poul
Very good colour Poul ! Here no signs ....
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I dont want them flowering now. It's a sign autumn is coming
While weeding I must have removed the label for this plant. Is it tenorii?
Could be Mark , have to check my pictures ....Here this species is not flowering for the moment ...
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First Colchicum of this season here is Colchicum graecum .
Survived our bad winter outside ..(planted in a poundbasket and plunged in my peatbed)
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graecum was the first here too, about a month ago, outside in a clay pot in sand. No more yet...
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Kris, nice C. graecum!
Kris and Peter, how is your experience growing C graecum outside? I have tried several times without any luck in a south facing raised bed. It didn't survived the winter. When I checked it in spring the bulb was attacked by rot. Now I grow it under glass, but there is no signs of it yet.
Colchicum bivonae Apollo is flowering now in the garden.
Poul
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Kris, nice C. graecum!
Kris and Peter, how is your experience growing C graecum outside? I have tried several times without any luck in a south facing raised bed. It didn't survived the winter. When I checked it in spring the bulb was attacked by rot. Now I grow it under glass, but there is no signs of it yet.
Hello Poul , it thrives better here outside then before in a pot in the greenhouse.The first two years I keep it in a pot in the greenhouse , but under these circumstances it never flowers with me.So I changed my plans and I planted the bulb in my usual compost in a basket (the ones we use to grow plants in the pond)This basket I plunged in my peatgarden . There it stays the whole winter and it gets frost here (no snow this winter !) until minus 15 degrees ....For 14 days the garden was very frozen here ...In the spring , the leafs stil looks very good and I noticed almost no frostdamage.
We had a very cool and wet spring and summer here. The leafs stays very long on the plant ! Until for weeks ago it was stil in full leaf ....I was thinking that it not lost his leafs this year ....but suddenly it did .I think it get really a boost and much energy from the old leafs ?My peatbed gets sun in summer from the morning until 14.00 hours in the afternoon. (east - northeast facing)In wintertime it gets almost no sun because the sun could not rise above the houses of the neighbours ....The compost of my peatbed is composed with leafmould ,bark,composted bark, peat and bit of loam .But the bulbs are planted in a basket that is filled with my usual bulbcompost .
Best regards and much success with this bulb-season...
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Hello Poul , it thrives better here outside then before in a pot in the greenhouse.The first two years I keep it in a pot in the greenhouse , but under these circumstances it never flowers with me.So I changed my plans and I planted the bulb in my usual compost in a basket (the ones we use to grow plants in the pond)This basket I plunged in my peatgarden . There it stays the whole winter and it gets frost here (no snow this winter !) until minus 15 degrees ....For 14 days the garden was very frozen here ...In the spring , the leafs stil looks very good and I noticed almost no frostdamage.
We had a very cool and wet spring and summer here. The leafs stays very long on the plant ! Until for weeks ago it was stil in full leaf ....I was thinking that it not lost his leafs this year ....but suddenly it did .I think it get really a boost and much energy from the old leafs ?My peatbed gets sun in summer from the morning until 14.00 hours in the afternoon. (east - northeast facing)In wintertime it gets almost no sun because the sun could not rise above the houses of the neighbours ....The compost of my peatbed is composed with leafmould ,bark,composted bark, peat and bit of loam .But the bulbs are planted in a basket that is filled with my usual bulbcompost .
Best regards and much success with this bulb-season...
Hello Kris,
Thank you for your detailed answer!
I have a peat bed very similar to the description of yours, so I think its worth trying to grow one of my Colchicum graecum there in the same way as you do. I will let you know the results.
I wish you success with your bulbs too.
Poul
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Poul,
Mine is in a clay pot in a raised sand plunge, open to the rain, it has been awet summer here. I think that the texture of the compost is important, it should not get waterlogged.
Here, now flowering, is Colchicum feinbruniae from Jim Archibalds stock, in the same sand plunge.
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Here, now flowering, is Colchicum feinbruniae from Jim Archibalds stock, in the same sand plunge.
Probably this one, Peter, from a collection by Bob and Rannveig?
314.250 : COLCHICUM FEINBRUNIAE Syria, near Laqlouq. Ex R.& R.Wallis 99-32. (A distinct, very attractive & floriferous, faintly tesselated, pink, medium-sized, autumn-flowering species, recently described & now introduced to cultivation. One of the first species to flower with us, usually appearing in mid-August.)
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yes, probably Maggie, the lable says Syria on it. I dont remember the other details offhand but if you need them and want to use the pictures for the Jim A. file I will check.
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Here's one I have as Colchicum rhodopaeum and two unknowns.
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Flowering in my garden yesterday:
Colchicum montanum under glass (about a month later that the ones in the open garden)
Colchicum corsicum
Colchicum pannonicum
Colchicum hybrid
Poul
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Colchicum byzantinum "Album" after a heavy storm.
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Colchicum byzantinum "Album" after a heavy storm.
A bit dirty, but beautiful anyway. I like the small hint of purple on the styles.
My colchicums like the fine weather we have in these days.
1. Colchicum davisii
2. Colchicum pannonicum
3. Colchicum hybrid
4. Colchicum bornmuelleri
Poul
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A bit dirty, but beautiful anyway. I like the small hint of purple on the styles.
My colchicums like the fine weather we have in these days.
1. Colchicum davisii
2. Colchicum pannonicum
3. Colchicum hybrid
4. Colchicum bornmuelleri
Poul
Very beautifull Poul and I like especially the davisii ! Here in our garden this species is stil under the ground .... :(
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Nice flowers, Poul.
Here my first Colchicum variegatum from S-Turkey.
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Here's two shots of the checkering of a Colchicum agrippinum.
Could play chess on the board?
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Here's another shot of a corm I dug and found it was being eaten by small black slugs. I dried it a bit and dusted it with sulfur. Looks like the rot was contained.
Any ideas about soil slug.
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Lovely YT.
Art I have been very busy with the paint brush so ..... fingers crossed. If I get any I'll let you know.
As you've probably gathered by now Arthur, nothing happened with regard to setting of seed. Still seeking various clones. Jan J lists some but can't get his site to work for me, :-\
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Nice flowers, Poul.
Here my first Colchicum variegatum from S-Turkey.
Dirk, the shape of this flower is much more elegant than their daughters, C. agrippum, which is the only from this family, that I have. If you ever get seeds or spare bulbs of variegatum, I am ready for a swap.
A rather pale Colchicum (Merendera) filifolium has just opened.
Poul
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Here's two shots of the checkering of a Colchicum agrippinum.
Could play chess on the board?
Arnold, let's play chess - but your chess board is better than mine!
Poul
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Here's another shot of a corm I dug and found it was being eaten by small black slugs. I dried it a bit and dusted it with sulfur. Looks like the rot was contained.
Any ideas about soil slug.
I have been harvesting potatoes, and a few of them was eaten by small black slugs exactly as your corms. Normally these slugs are at the surface, but I think that they have found a path to the goodies where the stem once were.
Poul
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Poul:
They were small black slugs here as well.
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I found some lopsided mystery bulbs in a pot, planted them in the garden, and they
are now in flower - a colchicum.
Is there an easy way of identifying what they are? They won't be rare.
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Two from garden and two from nature.
Colchicum variegatum and Merendera (montana?) from the garden, Merendera montana in El Espinar last weekend 8) and Merendera filifolia taken yesterday on Majorca.
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Two from garden and two from nature.
Colchicum variegatum and Merendera (montana?) from the garden, Merendera montana in El Espinar last weekend 8) and Merendera filifolia taken yesterday on Majorca.
I love them al Hans but the variegatum and dark montana get my special attention.
Green to envy to see variegatum growing outside....Here it is bounded to my glasshouse and even then the performance is not so good...
Always nice to see this Colchi's in natural habitat , makes me always happy. Thanks to share.
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Colchicum cupanii under glass
Poul
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Finally, some signs of autumn down here... still 29C.
First Colchicum to bloom in this region is C. tunicatum, a desert species that bloom while temperature is way above the 30c. It takes its name for the many layers of tunics that protect the bulb from desiccating.
And in the shade, C. decaisnei is just starting.
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Finally, some signs of autumn down here... still 29C.
First Colchicum to bloom in this region is C. tunicatum, a desert species that bloom while temperature is way above the 30c. It takes its name for it's many layers of tunic that protect the bulb from desiccating.
And in the shade, C. decaisnei is just starting.
I like them both Oron ... Here is Colchicum parlatoris one of the first (under glas ) .
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My colchicums finished flowering at the end of September, but I only moved the pictures from the camera into the computer today. So will show few pix from this year blooming
speciousum
speciosum Atrorubens
Beconsfield
Lilac Wonder
byzantinum and laetum
autumnale Alboplenum
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Colchicum byzantinum Innocence.
I don't think she is totally innocent - blushing and a bit dirty. I wonder what she has been doing.... :-*
Poul
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Poul,
Not quite a roll in the hay, but she's definitely been down and dirty.
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just a thousand of C. cilicicum 8)
Undoubtely the most fioriferous species in my conditions, although I do grow the native C. bivonae as well as other species and hybirds, but this form of cilicicus is just superior
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:o :o Wow.
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just a thousand of C. cilicicum 8)
Undoubtely the most fioriferous species in my conditions, although I do grow the native C. bivonae as well as other species and hybirds, but this form of cilicicus is just superior
Ooooh!
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just a thousand of C. cilicicum 8)
Undoubtely the most fioriferous species in my conditions, although I do grow the native C. bivonae as well as other species and hybirds, but this form of cilicicus is just superior
:o :o Stunning
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Not quite the thousand but a clump of C. 'Waterlily'.
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While not on the same scale.... still a Wow!! I am trying this yet again this year (first time in a few years) so fingers crossed for future clumps like that here. ;D
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Hello,
Colchicum cupanii I think.
I had five plants, two were planted outside, three in my bulb frame. The two outside are in flower, the ones in the frame are dead ???
Some plants do not appreciate all the caring love I pour over them!
Snails seem to enjoy these cute flowers. They do not read books, so they do not know that they are poisonous!
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Looks great Paddy!!
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Angelo, what a show in the autumn!
Paddy, your 'waterlilly' looks great. Mine has a tendency to flop over. Yours are very erect. Very nice contrast in front of the yellow leaves.
Poul
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Colchicum montanum, raised from seed I collected in the Pyrenees in 1996. A really dark form compared to the others I grow. A comparison shot included.
Also Colchicum cupanii var bertolinii. I lost the big pot full to the freeze at the end of 2010 but these in the garden are doing well.
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Colchicum cupanii glossophyllum.
(Fred, please ignore any backgroundleaf!) ;)
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Hans:
Why glossophyllum, leaf like a tongue?
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Ok Hans .. very nice backlight ;D and nice clump, I didn't know this form.
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....Also Colchicum cupanii var bertolinii. ....
Tony, it should be spelled bertolonii indeed. I guess it would be an Italian variety???
I don't know in what the several varieties of cupanii differ each other, to be honest they look al the same form me. I have seen a lot of plants in habitat here and it's a quite variable species in colour, from white to dark pink
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Tony, it should be spelled bertolonii indeed. I guess it would be an Italian variety???
I don't know in what the several varieties of cupanii differ each other, to be honest they look al the same form me. I have seen a lot of plants in habitat here and it's a quite variable species in colour, from white to dark pink
Hi Angelo
I found some references on this plant from a French site, maybe S France and adjacent Italy?
I agree about the variation in these plants under the name C cupanii. This one is a nice form, whatever it is called!
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Colchicum montanum, raised from seed I collected in the Pyrenees in 1996. A really dark form compared to the others I grow. A comparison shot included.
Also Colchicum cupanii var bertolinii. I lost the big pot full to the freeze at the end of 2010 but these in the garden are doing well.
What a great show Tony ! Stunning . It is a surprise to read that C. cupanii is hardy enough ....Did not found any hardy cupanii so far ... This is certainly a very fine form to .
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Another form of Colchicum parlatoris (ex Pelops) is flowering here .
To compare , the other parlatoris I grow (wich I post earlier and flowers earlier to )
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Also Colchicum lusitanicum is flowering for the moment .
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Colchicum decaisnei (ex R&B Wallis)was flowering this weekend .
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You have some fascinating species, Kris.
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You have some fascinating species, Kris.
Thanks Paul ! I always ask myself why they are not so popular ?
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Kris,
They're small and fleeting in many cases, and so many have foliage that is so large and out of proportion (and gets in the way of everything else). The foliage doesn't bother me at all, but I have heard a number of people lament it. I love them, particularly some of the smaller species.
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Kris,
They're small and fleeting in many cases, and so many have foliage that is so large and out of proportion (and gets in the way of everything else). The foliage doesn't bother me at all, but I have heard a number of people lament it. I love them, particularly some of the smaller species.
Oh yes Paul , I agree ! 8)
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Colchicum stevenii this morning.
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Colchicum stevenii this morning.
Great colour and plant Oron !
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Colchicum stevenii this morning.
Another new one to me!
Very nice, Oron; is it local?
cheers
fermi
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Thanks guys,
Fermi,
Colchicum stevenii is the most common colchicum in the region, it blooms often in astonishing numbers just days after the first rain.
It is most variable in size, color and shape of the petals.
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Oron,
Like Fermi, that is a new one to me as well. Great strong colour to it. Beautiful.
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Colchicum lusitanicum from the Ronda area in Andalucia, taken a couple of weeks ago.
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Colchicum cupani
Colchicum troodi ex. Taurus, Turkey
Poul
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Does anyone know much about Merendera 'Norman Barratt'? It's flowering now. Sadly only one of the bulbs is flowering sized.
Does anyone know when Colchicum ilyricus flowers? Mine are still underground.
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Does anyone know when Colchicum ilyricus flowers? Mine are still underground.
Colchicum illyricum flowers from August, I think. A synonym of Colchicum fasciculare according to the Kew Plant list.
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I only had to knock off the grit top dressing to see what was happing in the pot. Roots were under the grit with several noses showing. The full name of my bulbs is Colchicum illyricum Drakes form.
Who was Drake?
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Dave , here is a picture of C. lusitanum (grown from Gothenberg Bot G. seed ) in my garden - it seems to vary in the amount of tesselation and width of segments .
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Nice Colchicum, Otto, quite distinct in the way the segments are overlapping. C. lusitanicum is quite widespread in Iberia and northern Italy. Unfortunately, the population I saw was only just coming into flower and there were only half a dozen or so in flower. Even here though the amount of tessellation varied somewhat. Good natural variation I'd say.
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Fine plants all!
Here Colchicum cupanii f. alba and Colchicum cousturieri - latter is a much shorter plant.
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C. tuviae, a tiny semi desert species starts to bloom now.
Curiously it has female and male flowers.
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C. tuviae, a tiny semi desert species starts to bloom now.
Curiously it has female and male flowers.
Tiny but beautiful thing Oron . A question about the female and male flowers : does this happens with more Colchicums ?
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Thanks Kris,
We have noticed similar behavior with C. stevenii and C. tunicatum, both species often produce only male flowers before finishing their blooming time, [meaning the last flowers of the season]
We haven't found an explanation for this phenomenon.
My theory is that when the plant has enough flowers which have been pollinated, in order to save energy, particularly in the desert, it ensures that no more pollination might occur, and to do so it doesn't develop the style.
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Thanks Kris,
We have noticed similar behavior with C. stevenii and C. tunicatum, both species often produce only male flowers before finishing their blooming time, [meaning the last flowers of the season]
We haven't found an explanation for this phenomenon.
My theory is that when the plant has enough flowers which have been pollinated, in order to save energy, particularly in the desert, it ensures that no more pollination might occur, and to do so it doesn't develop the style.
Thanks Oron , very very interesting to know and your theory make sense to me. Smart decission of this Coclcicum then ..
In this case I would think that this behaviour not occurs in cultivation , especially in our parts of the world ?
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First winterflowering Colchicum shows up.
This Colchicum I get as Colchicum brachyphyllum. When Oron gave his lecture in Scotland I started to doubt on identity...
The plant Oron showed looks different to me ....
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Kris,
I think your plant is C. szovitsii subsp brachyphyllum [syn. C. brachyphyllum].
It is very difficult to have good results with this species as it grows in particular conditions: a long, dry , hot period of dormancy than cold, damp conditions during winter [often with snow]. Bulb is buried 30-40 cm deep in heavy soil.
I grow only one plant and it looks very similar to yours :-\
This is how it should look...
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Kris,
I think your plant is C. stzovitsii subsp brachyphyllum [syn. C. brachyphyllum].
It is very difficult to have good results with this species as it grows in particular conditions: a long, dry , hot period of dormancy than cold, damp conditions during winter [often with snow]. Bulb is buried 30-40 cm deep in heavy soil.
I grow only one plant and it looks very similar to yours :-\
This is how it should look...
Thanks Oron , I try to post another picture when the flowers are open .
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The full name of my bulbs is Colchicum illyricum Drakes form.
Who was Drake?
Jack Drake? who had an important Alpine nursery in Scotland.
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Thanks Peter.
My Colchicum ilyricum now have noses poking through the grit top dressing which will make them either winter growing or maybe spring. Looking forward to the flowers
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Different forms of Colchicum troodi flowering today in the garden and under glass.
The one in the garden survived -15oC and 20 cm snow.
With these pics I wish you all a Merry Christmas!
Poul
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Lovely Colchicum Poul
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My Colchicum ilyricum now have noses poking through the grit top dressing which will make them either winter growing or maybe spring. Looking forward to the flowers
A rubbish photo to show that flowers or leaves are beginning to push through the noses
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Leaves are now pushing through
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and almost a month on they look like this
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A pot full of Colchicum hungaricum in white and pale pink.
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Healthy plants, Ebbie- and some sunshine to enjoy them - you are lucky!
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Unfortunately not, Maggi. Two hours of sunshine today have sufficed. Otherwise it's raining continuously here in Lower Bavaria.
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Lovely pot full Ebbie!
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Beautiful ebbie!