Colchicum
How to Propagate
and Grow Successfully

Essential Info

Genus: Colchicum

Family: Liliaceae

Species: Autumnale

Common Names: Autumn crocus.

Classification: Autumn and winter flowering corm.

Height: 20cm (8inches).

Flowering: Throughout autumn and into winter.

Where to plant info

Where: Grow them at the front of autumn and winter flowering beds and borders.

They are ideal for growing in patio pots and tubs, window boxes and troughs.

Site: They prefer full sun, they thrive in it!

Colchicum also do well in partial shade.

Soil: Any rich and free draining soil.

Propagation info By seed in spring.

How to sow seeds….. read more

Or propagate by by division in spring.

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