Colchicums
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Colchicums
- From: B* C*
- Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 00:02:39 EDT
Sure have. It's about as difficult as growing daffodils. The bulbs are
usually available in the next couple of weeks here in southern Ontario.
Take them home, stick them in holes in the ground (I think I put mine down
about 4-5 inches) as soon as possible. They'll bloom. In fact they'll bloom
on a windowsill with no dirt, no water, no nothing.
Next spring try and remember where you planted them, because they'll send up
a pretty good sized clump of foliage, and you don't want to weed it out by
mistake. It has all the usual disadvantages of bulb foliage, although I
happen to think it's quite attractive while fresh.
The colchicums are usually fairly expensive, but if you plant them in well
drained soil where they get full sun and the ground gets quite warm in
summer they'll reproduce well for you. The ordinary rosy purple ones are
nice, but the white version is prettier, and then there are the waterlily
types which are even nicer. Of course the better looking the more expensive
the bulb. The common ones are around $5 here (Canadian of course, thats
about $0.64 US on the dollar).
You might want to plant some sort of low growing, not too dense plant over
them, because some people find the flower stems with no foliage just popping
out of the ground a little disconcerting.
Autumn crocus is another thing all together, and I have no experience with
them at all.
>From: "Barb Pernacciaro" <bpern@idcnet.com>
>Now, back to perennials, has anyone grown colchicum or autumn crocus? I
>should grow it as a memorial to the #$&* gout.
>
>-Barb P. in WI
>
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