{"id":8637,"date":"2010-10-10T00:58:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T07:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2010-10-07T01:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T08:22:49","slug":"growing-colchium-as-alpine-pot-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/growing-colchium-as-alpine-pot-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Colchium as Alpine Pot Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Colchium montanum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5057920044\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4086\/5057920044_1478793c91.jpg\" alt=\"Colchium montanum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is not to like about Colchium these autumn flowering crocus like bulbs always cheer me up.<\/p>\n<h3>Facts about Colchium<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> They have 6 stamens unlike crocus which have 3.<\/li>\n<li>Colchium will flower without being planted, just leave them on a sunny window sill.<\/li>\n<li>They are best artistically arranged in a shallow dish of pretty gravel and kept out of heavy rain.<\/li>\n<li>Planted outside they will flower in autumn before the long, strappy, lanceolate leaves show through. They do best in a semi-woodland site.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers are pink, lavender, rose or white.<\/li>\n<li>Other species include Colchium agrippinum, Colchium speciosum, Colchium clicicum, Colchium autumnale and\u00c2\u00a0 Colchium alpinum.<\/li>\n<li>There is also a spring flowering yellow variety Colchium luteum.<\/li>\n<li>Colchiums are said to be poisonous to humans and most animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Colchium panonicum \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5057306385\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4106\/5057306385_8b2e873843.jpg\" alt=\"Colchium panonicum\" width=\"464\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To avoid confusion with Autumn Crocus read <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/plant-autumn-crocus\/\">plant autumn crocus on gardeners tips<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/growing-colchium-as-alpine-pot-plants\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","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=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}