Mary Sue wrote about colchicums received from me and how they are doing in her garden, which is in a warmer area than where I live. Apparently her C. x agrippinum flowers about the same time as mine, but C. speciosum 'Album' is perhaps 3 weeks earlier for her. I'm not sure why colchicums would do better for her in pots than in the ground. In my experience, these are the most adaptable bulbous genus imaginable, flowering for years in apparently inhospitable conditions. One clone of C. x agrippinum that I grow came from an old garden where repeated flooding had buried the bulbs under 18 inches of silt, and they were still alive, though very attenuated. In just one year in better conditions, they were magnificent. Most of the colchicums around here in old gardens seem to be the Dutch speciosum x bivonae hybrids from early in the 20th century, which increase well vegetatively but set little if any seed. Their only problem is that slugs eat the flowers and, to some extent, the leaves. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA