Colchicum.

Colchicum.

A favourite of mine but very much out of date now, but a joy to read and look at those beautiful hand drawn, water coloured illustrations.

Colchicum at the gate.

Merendera large flower, seedling in with Crocus seed from Marcus.

Colchicum autumnale Winton seed 2010

Colchicum autumnale album 

 Colchicum autumnale Alboplenum

Colchicum autumnale Waterlily

Colchicum  bowlesianum a form of Colchicum bivonae from Mrs Hawthorne.

Colchicum 'Conquest' import by Otto from, Janis Ruksans.

Colchicum kotschyi Archibald seed 1986 collection number 314.750.

Colchicum corsicum from Barbara and Philip Gordon.

 Colchicum byzantinum below and byzantinum Album above. The white and the pink flowers always have a tiny deeper pink on the very tip of each petal which fades as it ages. One way to identify C.x  byzantinum.

 Colchicum speciosum (above)

Colchicum specious Album.

Colchicum The Giant a hybrid, looks like speciosum but the flower is much larger.

Colchicum agrippinum

Colchicum baytopiorum

Colchicum bivonae Otto import from Ruksans

Colchicum ciliciium from Ken Gillanders 1986

Colchicum variegatum Jon's photo. Seed grown from Marcus Harvey collected, Ambelos, Stamos, Greece.

Colchicum macrophyllum Marcus Harvey.

Colchicum Princess Astrid.

Colchicum turcicum above and below 

Colchicum cupanii Ottos Garden

Colchicum pusillum

Colchicum troodii SRGC seed 2014

Colchicum parlatoris

Colchicum sfikasianum Marcus, Near Agios Focus, Mani, Greece 50m. Allied to Colchicum lingulatum but has a smaller corm and broader leaves. Campanulate in shape and faintly tessellated, endemic to the Peleponnese though fairly abundant. I can't find my bulbs so I may have left them in my old garden, somewhat disappointing.

Colchicum stevenii Marcus