Colchicum 2012

[ronm]

Wonderful. 

[LucS]

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.

[ronm]

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?

[Sinchets]

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.

[fermi de Sousa]

The "autumn" flowerers are starting here in the Southern Hemisphere!
One of the darker flowerers, but it opens this pale and darkens as it ages -




cheers
fermi

[Sinchets]

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.

[YT]

It's my first season growing colchicums and very fun

Colchicum luteum 'Golden Baby'
Colchicum trigynum

[Jan]

Colchicum kesselringii

[fermi de Sousa]

This is a Colchicum I received 20 years ago as "Lilac Major" - is it the same as "Lillac Wonder"?






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.




Colchicum cilicium is now in full flower


cheers
fermi

[Jan]

Colchicum kesselringii, special form

[Jan]

other forms of Colchicum kesselringii

[art600]

Jan

Do you remeber the country where the brilliant purple striped kesselringii origiantes from?

[Jan]

Yes, I remember.   
 I hope this year will be the seeds.

[Jan]

Colchicum luteum

[fermi de Sousa]

This is apparently "The Giant'




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,




It produced a lot of seed and this is what it looked like at the beginning of summer


Any clues to its ID would help it get into the seedex
cheers
fermi