Colchicum 'Water Lily'
By Spritzhenry
- 19 Sep, 2011
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I've only got one of these beauties, but this year it has four flowers.
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four flowers is really good, i have a couple of the plants/bulbs but only 2 flowers each and they keep falling over.
19 Sep, 2011
Thats a lovely flower.
19 Sep, 2011
It is - but the snails have already nibbled the stem! Grrrr....
19 Sep, 2011
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!!
19 Sep, 2011
That's simply gorgeous.
20 Sep, 2011
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!
20 Sep, 2011
Is this lovely flower in your pond Barbra? if so how big does it spead!
20 Sep, 2011
mine grow in the soil PP ~ in the shade.
20 Sep, 2011
Gorgeous...love the colour too....
20 Sep, 2011
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! :-)
20 Sep, 2011
So do I ;0))
20 Sep, 2011
:-)
21 Sep, 2011
LOVELY, Barbara . . . the most beautiful Colchicum I've ever seen. Will write similar "note to self" for next August!!
24 Sep, 2011
:-))) 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! :-)
24 Sep, 2011
you should see the colchiums at john's garden sheila! never seen anything quite like it.
24 Sep, 2011
Oooh Sticki . . . glad you managed to go again. Wish I was nearer!
24 Sep, 2011
will put some photos on later, i wish you were too!!
24 Sep, 2011
Who's John?
24 Sep, 2011
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! :))
24 Sep, 2011
Sorry spritz - you will see later in the blog.
24 Sep, 2011
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.
25 Sep, 2011
Thanks for the info, Sheila. I've heard of the Nursery, but I've never been there.
25 Sep, 2011
i put a blog on spritz ~ so you can see the pictures of the colchiums
25 Sep, 2011
Good - thanks. :-))
25 Sep, 2011
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 ...
26 Sep, 2011
My other autumn crocuses haven't appeared....:-(( Maybe there's still time???
26 Sep, 2011
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19 Sep, 2011