Cold Climate Gardening

I planted ‘Nancy Lindsay’ last year but couldn’t get a photo then. I have yet to see what the autumnale type looks like, but this flower is much bigger and shaped differently than the C. autumnale ‘Album’ that bloomed for me earlier this fall. I can see why it was originally considered its own species: Colchicum pannonicum, because it doesn’t look much like the species. I don’t know who decides these things, or how they inform the rest of the world of their decisions. I would like to be more in the loop.

Anyway, I bought ‘Nancy Lindsay’ because she was said to have a purple “stem” …

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It’s a Girl Gone Gardening, brought to my attention by Hands in the Dirt. I am way behind in my garden blog browsing. Well, I am way behind in a lot of things.

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