Colchicums Early 2009

[Hans A.]

Fred -  a beautiful picture of your Colchicum luteum - is it in flower in the open now? It is very early, isn`t it?

[BULBISSIME]

Yes hans,
it's in flower now, last year 20/01, and in 2007 : 15/01 !
Winter was cold but it's warmer now and a lot of bulbs are growing quickly, outside and in the frame.

[Hans A.]

Thanks Fred - so could be a wonderful/strange sight together with Sternbergia candida Should try to grow this species here...

[dominique]

Thank you Mark Tony and Fred for the pics. Mine luteum are always under ground in the garden;
Tony, is your Colchicum perhaps szovitzii  ( page 8 of this thread, reply 112)?

[Tony Willis]

Dominique

no it is not C.szovitsii, I tried the key in Flora of Turkey and it did not fit. In any case its growing conditions were completly wrong.i found it on a dry hillside and C. szovitsii grows almost sumberged in water at flowering time.

[dominique]

Hans
I grow Sternbergia candida outdoors in the garden and it has not frozen (-11). Leaves have to day 3cm over the ground

[David Nicholson]

Thank you Mark Tony and Fred for the pics. Mine luteum are always under ground in the garden;
Tony, is your Colchicum perhaps szovitzii  ( page 8 of this thread, reply 112)?

Mine is always underground too Dom-in a pot, I can never get it to flower.

[Michael J Campbell]

Here is my Colchicum hungaricum albiflorum, I posted this  last week with only one flower showing.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely Michael, and a cracking picture as well.

[mark smyth]

I think everyone in to bulbs should grow C. hungaricum. I used to have the pink one but since planting it out there has been no sign of it.

I have a Colchicum roaming/running across one of my troughs. I only noticed it in flower when the sun was about to set. Does anyone know it? I can spare some in the summer if you remind me

[Michael J Campbell]

Nice little Colchicum Mark.

[mark smyth]

Michael make a note in your diary to remind me

[mark smyth]

Anthony, this is from the heat of the sun today. Do you have a sunny area of your garden? I bought an aluminium stage from B&Q, very cheap, and have it straddled over a raised bed when choice plants can see the sun.

[mark smyth]

Colchicum szovitsii has finally decided to grow and open

[Maggi Young]

A particularly nice white flower with green bits you have there, Mark!