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- noun Plural form of
colchicum .
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There are colchicums all over, too; big blowsy waterlily-type doubles and slender old-fashioned single ones in clear pink and white.
Archive 2009-09-01 Imogen 2009
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There are colchicums all over, too; big blowsy waterlily-type doubles and slender old-fashioned single ones in clear pink and white.
A lunchtime walk... Imogen 2009
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Some years my dwarf flowering almond has an amazing lime green color that makes a wonderful contrast to the dark ajuga and lavender colchicums, other years it just seems to fade to tan.
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Only a few flowers of autumn were visible, such as the fleabane and red gillyflower, autumn colchicums in the ravine, and under the beeches bracken and tufts of northern heather.
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The colchicums are excellent autumn-blooming bulbs and should be more generally planted.
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The colchicums usually remain in the ground several years in good condition.
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Flowers are becoming rare -- a few daisies in the fields, some blue or yellow chicories and colchicums, some wild geraniums growing among fragments of old walls, and the brown berries of the privet -- this is all we were able to find.
Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885
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Only a few flowers of autumn were visible, such as the fleabane and red gillyflower, autumn colchicums in the ravine, and under the beeches bracken and tufts of northern heather.
Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen Alexander Chodzko 1847
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Choose bright cyclamens and colchicums to really shine, says Dan Pearson pornography: I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
WN.com - Articles related to Protest in Bangkok calls for Thai PM to step down 2009
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Every fall I think that more of those fall blooming ones, don’t have any colchicums yet, should be ordered.
October Bloom Day-New Friends And Old-Blog Action Day 2009 « Fairegarden 2009
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