Dainty blooms like the shade ; Colchicum is also known as 'naked ladies' and 'meadow saffron'. These dainty little additions to the autumn garden produce several clusters of violet, crocus-like, wine-glass-shaped blooms with leaves not appearing until the following spring.

Express & Echo (Exeter UK) | October 11, 2008 | Copyright

Colchicum is also known as 'naked ladies' and 'meadow saffron'. These dainty little additions to the autumn garden produce several clusters of violet, crocus-like, wine-glass-shaped blooms with leaves not appearing until the following spring.

Although colchicums look like crocuses, they are actually members of the lily family and not a type of crocus.

The bulbs usually only appear on sale in late summer and have to be planted immediately, because they start flowering within a ...

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