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Among the plants brought here from my previous gardens was this colchicum; I couldn't even tell you which cultivar it is. I suppose I replanted about a half dozen bulbs in my present garden, and now there must be several hundred. This is quite surprising, as saying that once planted they were totally ignored, is an understatement... they have survived and thrived even though they are totally buried and crowded and abused by large, aggressive perennials like phlox and daylilies, to the point where I barely notice their foliage, and am always quite surprised when scads of large clumps of colchicums start blooming in fall. This is my kind of bulb!


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