Jim McKenney's note about fragrant colchicums led me to go around sniffing them this morning. Some had no noticeable fragrance. C. bivonae and most of its many hybrids have a faint fragrance that reminds me of lemon trees. The most fragrant was the hybrid 'Dick Trotter', which has a sweet scent similar to Ivory bath soap. Interestingly, the commercial form of C. x agrippinum had no scent I could detect, but the form I grow that was found in an old Portland garden is honey-scented. C. variegatum, one of the parents of this natural hybrid, had no fragrance (but magnificent bloom after our hot summer). C. speciosum is almost unscented, so the big hybrids must get their fragrance from their C. bivonae ancestry. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA