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 Colchicum agrippinum          9cm...£2.50

 Free-flowering species with masses of short-stemmed, chequered flowers of vilet-lilac.

Colchicum 'Antares'         1ltr...£5.00

A favourite early-flowering form with big rounded goblet like flowers of creamy white tipped in lilac.

 Colchicum atticum         9cm...£5.50

 Lovely Autumn flowers of pale purplish pink with distinct narrow petals. Turkey.

 

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 Colchicum baytoporium         9cm...£3.50 

 

 A lovely small species with clusters of bright purple-pink flowers  and contrasting cream stamens, in early Autumn. Sun in good gritty soil is best.

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 Colchicum boissieri         7cm...£4.50

A gorgeous September/October flowering species with delicate pale stems carrying lovely bright pink chalice-like flowers. Not difficult in a well-drained soil but worthy of space in the bulb frame or cold greenhouse.

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 Colchicum chalcedonicum         9cm...£6.00

 

 Certainly one of the most beautiful  species - large flowers held at ground level with gorgeous chequered flowers of vibrant red-purple.

 

 

 

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Colchicum cretense       8cm...£3.50

 

 

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 Colchicum cupanii         7cm...£4.75

 

 

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 Colchicum 'Dick Trotter'         1ltr...£3.00

 

 

 

 

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Colchicum 'Harlekijn'         1ltr...£5.00

A startling beauty - big creamy white goblets irregularly stained with violet purple. Makes big strong corms and produces many flowers. A favourite form.

 

 

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 Colchicum hungaricum 'Album'       8cm...£3.50

  

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 Colchicum hungaricum 'Velebit Star'         9cm...£4.50

 

 

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Colchicum 'Joachim Hof'          9cm...£4.50

Perhaps the deepest coloured form with alluring blue-violet, chalice-like flowers in September.

 

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Colchicum kesselringii          9cm...£7.00

Got to be my favourite early-Spring flowering species: cracking creamy white narrowly tubular upright goblets on short sems and completed by eye-catching crimson stripes - stunning. C.Asia.

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Colchicum laetum         9cm...£3.00

A many-flowered species with large narrow goblets of lilac-pink in late Autumn.

 

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 Colchicum levieri         sold out

 

 

 

 

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 Colchicum lingulatum          7cm...£3.50

 

 

 

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 Colchicum longiflorum         7cm...£3.25

( syn. C.neapolitanum ) A lovely small species for a trough or select position in the rock garden. Pale purple-pink flowers on short stems appear in early Autumn long before the narrow foliage emerges. 

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Colchicum lusitanicum         9cm...£3.50

 

 

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Colchicum macrophyllum         9cm...£3.00

Attractive and large, chequered flowers of pale apple-blossom pink. 

 

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 Colchicum montana        9cm...£3.00

( syn. Merendera montana )

 

 

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Colchicum parlatoris         7cm...£5.50

Dainty and choice refined species with short-stemmed, star-like flowers of lilac-pink. 

Colchicum pusillum        8cm...£4.50

 

 

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Colchicum speciosum 'Ordu'          9cm...£4.00

A very lovely selection from Turkey with good-sized flowers of lilac-purple on three-inch stems.

 

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Colchicum szovitsii           8cm...£3.50

Seed-grown corms with flowers ranging in colour from white to creamy pink. Make a fine display in early Spring. Caucasus/Iran

 

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Colchicum szovitsii 'Tivi'        8cm...£7.50

Purest white and prolific, long-lasting star-like flowers on short, deep green stems. A lovely form originally from Tivi, Armenia. 

 

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 Colchicum szovitsii 'Vardaovit'         9cm...£5.50

 Early Spring-flowering with two or three pink-tinged, white goblet-like flowers per two-inch stem.

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 Colchicum tenorei          9cm...£3.00

Quite recently introduced, this has proved to be a strong-growing species with large lilac-pink flowers on three-inch stems appearing reliably in August/September. 

 Colchicum 'General Grant'          9cm...£4.00