Russell, Can you supply some of these bulbs next summer? I might be interested in trying some of them. Our season is probably late this year because the weather was cold and wet well into June this past spring. I guess my C. byzantinum usually start in early to mid August, and they are not up at all yet. Maybe our wet summer was too much of a good thing for some of them. Regards, Jim At 11:40 AM 9/6/2003 -0400, you wrote: >If your colchicums are only beginning to bloom, Jim, you obviously need to >augment your collection <grin>. C. bivonae 'Apollo' has been in flower >for 2 weeks, with C. bivonae hybrids such as 'Princess Astrid' following >close on its heels (many hybrids debut in the last week of August or >so). Colchicum speciosum 'Ordu' is also well into bloom. If you were >able to grow C. graecum (which I would think would be a possibility), your >colchicum season would start in early August (other species reputably >flower even earlier, but I cannot personally attest to this). > >Russell > >At 09:36 AM 9/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>My first Colchicum is in bloom -- C. autumnale. C. cilicicum usually is >>first, but not this year. >> >>Regards, >>Jim Shields >>in central Indiana > >Russell Stafford >Odyssey Bulbs >8984 Meadow Lane, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49103 >269-471-4642 >http://www.odysseybulbs.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA Member of INTERNATIONAL CLIVIA CO-OP