Comments on: The Triplets: Impostor Colchicums http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/ Hardy plants for hardy souls Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:38:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Colchicums: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2009 — Cold Climate Gardening http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/comment-page-1/#comment-63740 Colchicums: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2009 — Cold Climate Gardening Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:08:17 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/#comment-63740 [...] the shrubbery and looks fine from the house. Early on in my colchicum acquisitions, I discovered three different varieties that, to my eye, were indistinguishable. It turns out a mongrel colchicum has infiltrated the [...] [...] the shrubbery and looks fine from the house. Early on in my colchicum acquisitions, I discovered three different varieties that, to my eye, were indistinguishable. It turns out a mongrel colchicum has infiltrated the [...]

]]> By: Will the real colchicums please stand up? | Cold Climate Gardening http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/comment-page-1/#comment-16134 Will the real colchicums please stand up? | Cold Climate Gardening Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:25:39 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/#comment-16134 [...] it, many of my colchicum cultivars look an awful lot like each other. And I’ve certainly had impostors before. I’ve been paranoid about this ever since an email correspondent told me that a goodly [...] [...] it, many of my colchicum cultivars look an awful lot like each other. And I’ve certainly had impostors before. I’ve been paranoid about this ever since an email correspondent told me that a goodly [...]

]]> By: Colchicum byzantinum ‘Album’ | Cold Climate Gardening http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/comment-page-1/#comment-15934 Colchicum byzantinum ‘Album’ | Cold Climate Gardening Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:37:41 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/#comment-15934 [...] of you may recall that my first acquistion of Colchicum byzantinum ‘Album’ was an impostor. This beauty is undoubtedly the real [...] [...] of you may recall that my first acquistion of Colchicum byzantinum ‘Album’ was an impostor. This beauty is undoubtedly the real [...]

]]> By: Colchicum speciosum | Cold Climate Gardening http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/comment-page-1/#comment-15931 Colchicum speciosum | Cold Climate Gardening Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:14:05 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/#comment-15931 [...] bought this from Odyssey Bulbs because I wanted to see how it compared with the C. speciosum I had gotten from another source several years earlier. Wouldn’t you know it, I forgot to [...] [...] bought this from Odyssey Bulbs because I wanted to see how it compared with the C. speciosum I had gotten from another source several years earlier. Wouldn’t you know it, I forgot to [...]

]]> By: Colchicum autumnale ‘Nancy Lindsay’ | Cold Climate Gardening http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/comment-page-1/#comment-15929 Colchicum autumnale ‘Nancy Lindsay’ | Cold Climate Gardening Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:52:36 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/#comment-15929 [...] one photograph of it that way, in Andrew Lawson’s The Gardener’s Book of Color. And the colchicum I received as ‘Giant’ had a greeny-yellow tube, but the one the Bookish Gardener ordered had a purple tube. (Both from [...] [...] one photograph of it that way, in Andrew Lawson’s The Gardener’s Book of Color. And the colchicum I received as ‘Giant’ had a greeny-yellow tube, but the one the Bookish Gardener ordered had a purple tube. (Both from [...]

]]> By: Colchicum bornmuelleri of gardens | Cold Climate Gardening http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/comment-page-1/#comment-15916 Colchicum bornmuelleri of gardens | Cold Climate Gardening Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:08:10 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/#comment-15916 [...] have the impostor. It has yellow anthers and a white throat, and it’s big as the “triplets” I described [...] [...] have the impostor. It has yellow anthers and a white throat, and it’s big as the “triplets” I described [...]

]]> By: Bookish Gardener http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Bookish Gardener Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2003/10/18/the-triplets/#comment-96 <strong>They may be Giants...</strong> I made my first foray into the world of colchicums a couple of weeks ago, encouraged and inspired by Kathy Purdy at Cold Climate Gardening, the guru of all things colchicum. I planted a sampler of colchicum bulbs hardy to They may be Giants…

I made my first foray into the world of colchicums a couple of weeks ago, encouraged and inspired by Kathy Purdy at Cold Climate Gardening, the guru of all things colchicum. I planted a sampler of colchicum bulbs hardy to

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