My first colchicum is up but hasn’t pinked up yet.
This is Colchicum byzantinum.
Most colchicums emerge white and then pink up over the next few days.
Did you know I am a colchicum evangelist, spreading the good news of colchicums wherever I go? For some of my earlier messages, check out the archives.
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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus
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Albert Camus quotations
My Colchicums are up and starting to bloom too. It’s always such a treat. Unfortunately, the first few blooms have been ruined by slugs or earwigs, I can’t tell which.
.-= Mr. McGregor’s Daughter´s last blog ..The Best Laid Plans =-.
E. A. Bowles, the colchicum expert, used to have have trouble with slugs: “I am very fond of the Spring-flowering colchicums, but unfortunately slugs are also, and those greedy gastropods and I have a race for who can see the flower-buds first. If I win I go out after dark with an acetylene lamp and a hatpin and spear the little army of slugs making for a tea party at the sign of the Colchicum.”