Colchicum 'Water Lily'

Just seen a pic of Andrews, they really are lovely.

four flowers is really good, i have a couple of the plants/bulbs but only 2 flowers each and they keep falling over.

Thats a lovely flower.

It is - but the snails have already nibbled the stem! Grrrr....

oh thats what happened to mine last year ~ i had forgotten that. I was meaning to put a clear plastic collar around the stem for protection this year!!

That's simply gorgeous.

Yes - I'd wanted to grow them, but I was always too late looking for them to plant. Last year I managed it! :-))

Note to self: start looking in August!

Is this lovely flower in your pond Barbra? if so how big does it spead!

mine grow in the soil PP ~ in the shade.

Gorgeous...love the colour too....

Pp - it's a bulb that flowers in the autumn. The name is a bit confusing, isn't it! The flower is about 4" across.

I think it's a beauty! :-)

So do I ;0))

:-)

LOVELY, Barbara . . . the most beautiful Colchicum I've ever seen. Will write similar "note to self" for next August!!

:-))) It's got to be then - once the month slips by, the poor bulbs start to produce the flowers in the packaging!

Oh, and it now has FIVE flowers! :-)

you should see the colchiums at john's garden sheila! never seen anything quite like it.

Oooh Sticki . . . glad you managed to go again. Wish I was nearer!

will put some photos on later, i wish you were too!!

Who's John?

Spritz - John Massey (I think that's his surname) runs Ashwood Nurseries in the West Midlands . . . I think both Sticki and I have done blogs. Wonderful nursery, and his own garden is lovely, and just open a few times each year.

That's nice, Sticki! :))

Sorry spritz - you will see later in the blog.

my lilac wonder is doing just that. I must go looking for the waterlily ones. But I think they are hidden under shrubbery . oops ust lift and move them next year.

Thanks for the info, Sheila. I've heard of the Nursery, but I've never been there.

i put a blog on spritz ~ so you can see the pictures of the colchiums

Good - thanks. :-))

What a beauty and 4 flowers that very good ,I bought one last year it has behaved very oddly ,the leaves shot up in the middle of the summer died down and then nothing ! my Saffron Crocus's are growing i'm keeping my fingers crossed as to whether they will flower they didn't last year being the first year ...

My other autumn crocuses haven't appeared....:-(( Maybe there's still time???