{"id":14123,"date":"2012-09-10T01:33:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14123"},"modified":"2012-09-09T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T14:00:13","slug":"flash-colchicum-speciosum-or-autumn-crocus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/flash-colchicum-speciosum-or-autumn-crocus\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash   Colchicum speciosum or Autumn Crocus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colchicum speciosum produce autumn crocus flowers before any leaves. These plants were grown in a pot for display at alpine garden shows and competitions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7961373410\/\" title=\"Autumn crocus by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8172\/7961373410_a818eb8ac1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Autumn crocus\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Photo Tips with Flash and Without<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This photo was taken without a flash on the camera whilst the photo below had auto flash.<\/li>\n<li>The colours appear more saturated if you can hold the camera still enough to avoid using a flash. Flash can burn out detail.<\/li>\n<li>If information is available such as the variety name keep a record &#8211; I forgot<\/li>\n<li>If the plant is in a competition or you know the name of the owner give them a credit. (West Yorkshire AGS group autumn show again I forgot the entrants name).<\/li>\n<li>Use a plain back ground &#8211; I borrowed someones green card but I may carry a grey sheet for future.<\/li>\n<li>Take care with framing, the plants are not going to move. My third mistake compounded by not cropping the resulting photo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7961372932\/\" title=\"Autumn crocus by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8449\/7961372932_b21220eb9b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Autumn crocus\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colchicum speciosum <\/strong>is native to mountainous areas of northern Turkey. Do not collect wild specimens but acquire from cultivated stock or grow your own from specialist seed suppliers.<br \/>\nOther names for Colchicum speciosum include &#8220;Naked ladies&#8221; and  &#8220;Meadow Saffron&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/growing-colchium-as-alpine-pot-plants\/\">Growing Colchium as Alpine Pot Plants<\/a> &#8211; Colchium have 6 stamen crocus only 3.<br \/>\nTrue <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/autumn-crocus-naked-ladies\/\">autumn crocus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colchicum speciosum producecrocus like flowers in autumn  before any leaves. These plants were grown in a pot for display at alpine garden shows and competitions. They display the distinct 6 stamens compared to a crocus&#8217;s three stamens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}