Jerry Flintoff wrote, > Nice colchicum photos. I assume you grow C. baytopiorum frost-free? I have not found it necessary to grow this species strictly frost-free. I have one pot of it in a frame that remains uncovered most of the time, and it has come through about 25 F here this winter, while in leaf, with no damage. In previous years it also came through several degrees of frost -- I've had it about 12 years. Jerry also mentioned C. hungaricum. There seem to be several different plants going around under that name. We can only hope that someone will soon produce a monograph of the genus so we can sort out the many small colchicums we are growing, some from seed collected in the wild. That was how I got my Colchicum szovitsii, which Jerry praised -- I agree that it (if that's what I have!) is very nice. Another pleasing one this winter has been C. doerfleri, which has a particularly good color among the small species. Jane McGary Northwest Oregon