Comments on: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2008

By: Sue Dawson

Sue Dawson — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:43:50 +0000

Hi Kathy,
I enjoyed viewing your garden and view. I want to explore your blog some more. I am in zone 5b, Nebraska. Thanks for visiting my blog on Bloom Day.

By: Shady Gardener

Shady Gardener — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:03:41 +0000

thank you for sharing your colchicum collection, as well as the great color that you’re seeing right now. I’d like to plant some colchicum (there is quite a selection, isn’t there?); guess it’ll be on my “wish list” for next year. have a great day!

By: Carol, May Dreams Gardens

Carol, May Dreams Gardens — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:43:21 +0000

Your garden offers both wonderful views and flowers for close up viewing. It is taking me a long time to get around to all the bloom day posts this month! Thanks for joining in.

By: debra

debra — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:18:38 +0000

I want to visit! You have given me a true taste of fall, autumn, the tapestry of foliage is amazing.
what a gift.
xoxo Debra

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:47:02 +0000

Just stopping by to say how beautiful it looks. I would like to plant some Feverfew. I love that green.

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:41:57 +0000

Ok, true confession about the view: when I see it, there is a telephone wire going across it. I used the scratch remover tool in my photo program to get rid of that, because my eye automatically erases it when I look anyway. When I wrote my colchicum article, Russ Stafford of Odyssey Bulbs recommended "Colchicum bivonae, C. cilicicum, C. byzantinum, C. agrippinum, and hybrids such as 'Disraeli' (with checkering, thus indicating C. bivonae in their background)" as being the best to try in the South. But I don't know if he ships them in July. I always get mine in late August. He might just ship them earlier if you asked him. Ted, you are right. The double white doesn't flop as much. Could be because it can't be fertilized. I think I read once that they don't flop until they've been fertilized.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:25:25 +0000

Those colchicums everywhere are sure lovely, but that black pansy is closest to my heart The feverfew you gave me is doing great, and I can’t wait to see what it does next summer! It’s the only color like that in my garden, so it will stand out for sure. Nice bloom day post!

By: tedb

tedb — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:42:57 +0000

The double white looks great – and I usually go for single flowers. They seem to stand up really well also.

By: Annie in Austin

Annie in Austin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:12:59 +0000

Lovely stuff, Kathy – and alboplenum is still my favorite. I never had a fancy kind in Illinois, just the common lavender-pink kind and red sumac and had gold feverfew seeding along the sidewalk.
But they all look better in your country garden with the hills and fields around!

Maybe Jenny and Icould grow Colchicum in Austin. On the Central Texas Gardening website, extension guy Skip Richter says to plant the bulbs in July.

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:48:41 +0000

Oh! How I miss the fall colors- and colchicums- I had never heard of them until this year when I was listening to Vita Sackville West’s diary in which she was praising them. Now I wonder if they would grow here?