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mark smyth

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Colchicums late 2008
« on: August 03, 2008, 04:47:50 PM »
Something strange is going on in my garden. I have many Colchicums above ground and flowering already. Looking at last years folder for August 2008 I didnt photograph my Colchicums until the 22nd and 25th. That's 3 weeks early this year.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 02:31:42 PM »
Hi Mark,
I have Colchicum graecum in flower since july 24th, Acis roseum 30th and to morrow Scilla numidica. Colchicum graecum is always the first at home, but very early this year in fact.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2008, 09:29:36 AM »
And Colchicum soboliferum (AKA Merendera sobolifera) is about to flower in our rock garden here in the Southern Hemisphere!
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2008, 11:17:30 AM »
Colchicum cilicium from Pozanti in Turkey
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2008, 10:19:19 AM »
Splendid, Tony. Thanks
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2008, 10:04:16 PM »
Tony,
a beautiful wee thing :D
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2008, 04:58:30 PM »
Can anyone identify these Colchicums please.

I think the first one comes from Greece, but I have no details for the second - aged label had snapped and important details lost.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2008, 11:05:14 PM »
Is the white one the white form of C. autumnale. Looks just like mine and I don't have anything wildly exciting in that line. Very nice though.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2008, 02:50:09 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on August 17, 2008, 11:05:14 PM
Is the white one the white form of C. autumnale. Looks just like mine and I don't have anything wildly exciting in that line. Very nice though.

If it is autumnale would it not be flopping on the ground? Awfully smart looking!

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2008, 03:10:19 AM »
Why should it be flopping on the ground if the flowers are reasonably freshly opened?
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2008, 07:43:30 AM »
Quote from: aruby on August 15, 2008, 10:04:16 PM
Tony,
a beautiful wee thing :D

Armin

not so wee, it is actually 7 inches tall.The angle of the photograph gives the impression it is short. I tried to show the inside  of the flower which is very nice.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2008, 12:19:43 PM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on August 18, 2008, 03:10:19 AM
Why should it be flopping on the ground if the flowers are reasonably freshly opened?

All the autumnales flop here - stems horizontal and flowers point up (sometimes). The doubles are just too heavy to stand at all.  Must be our climate. I much prefer C. speciosum.

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2008, 03:10:43 PM »
After an early start at the end of June with Colchicum parnassicum the next ones are now out:
Colchicum longifolium from Liguria
Colchicum lusitanum
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2008, 07:21:52 PM »
A very promising start Thomas !!!
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2008, 11:44:18 AM »
a couple more from Greece which are probably just variants of the same species and another view of the cilicicum from Turkey


colchicum sp greece vermion
 cochicum sp greece falackro
 colchicum cilicicum turkey pozanti
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