Growing Colchium as Alpine Pot Plants
What is not to like about Colchium these autumn flowering crocus like bulbs always cheer me up.
Facts about Colchium
- They have 6 stamens unlike crocus which have 3.
- Colchium will flower without being planted, just leave them on a sunny window sill.
- They are best artistically arranged in a shallow dish of pretty gravel and kept out of heavy rain.
- Planted outside they will flower in autumn before the long, strappy, lanceolate leaves show through. They do best in a semi-woodland site.
- Flowers are pink, lavender, rose or white.
- Other species include Colchium agrippinum, Colchium speciosum, Colchium clicicum, Colchium autumnale and Colchium alpinum.
- There is also a spring flowering yellow variety Colchium luteum.
- Colchiums are said to be poisonous to humans and most animals.