I am determined to wrap up the colchicum season in a timely manner and get my colchicum books out of the dining room, where they’ve been banging around near the computer for easy reference. There is only one colchicum still blooming, and that is ‘Waterlily.’ She is always the last, and often looks the worse […]
Entries from October 2004
Missing, but not forgotten
October 29th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
Categories: Colchicums · Plant info
Keywords: colchicum · colchicums
Bulb mania
October 29th, 2004 by rosemarie hanson · No Comments
I have planted 400 crocuses (half vernus), 60 daffodils (Tete a Tete and Earlicheer (20ct on sale for no money at Wayside)), 100 iris reticulata(Harmony), and about 15 hyacinths (L’Innocense) so far. Tomorrow I get my Brent and Beckys order - 50 N. Sweetness and 50 N. some early blooming jonquil linnaeus or campernelli […]
Categories: Garden chores · Acquisitions
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Another white one
October 28th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
This is the white form of Colchicum speciosum which, just as with the white form of byzantinum, is called ‘Album.’ Like the typical speciosum, the flower is taller and larger than the typical byzantinum, and not nearly as generous with its blossoms, at least this year. They’re elegant and demure, above the kind of flopsy […]
Categories: Colchicums · Plant info
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Colchicum byzantinum ‘Album’
October 28th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · 2 Comments
Some of you may recall that my first acquistion of Colchicum byzantinum ‘Album’ was an impostor. This beauty is undoubtedly the real thing. Not only is it white, but it has the same structure of petals and general floriferous character of the species. I just received and planted this earlier this autumn from Odyssey Bulbs, […]
Categories: Colchicums
Keywords: acquisitions · autumn · colchicum · colchicums
Pigweeds, indeed!
October 27th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · 2 Comments
Just came across A Manual of Gardening by Liberty Hyde Bailey online. Presumable this is in the public domain, although it is never stated on the website. I only read a bit of it, but that bit brought a smile to my face:
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Here’s another one
October 23rd, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
Here’s another garden blog, again, courtesy of Ilona, called The Good Earth: Musings of a gardener, mother, and former marketing maven. Sounds like my kind of woman!
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British Garden Blog
October 23rd, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
Andrew Stenning Gardening & Design is the latest garden blog in the current spate that seems to be coming to my attention, brought to my notice by Andrew himself in an email. Going to his site, I was a bit puzzled at first. Turns out he posts his entries in the comments section. So […]
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