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Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: The colour was a surprise but it seems they can vary according to light, temperature and soil.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-07-06

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: These do very well in a built up bed under my Horse Chestnut tree.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2008-02-04

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: With the pink C. coum, they make a good spring show!
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2008-03-07

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: After more than 10 years it is now a large plant.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-11-06

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: This is interesting with darker streaks on the petals, one of two very large corms I have in a built up bed under a tree.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-09-21

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: All these flowers are from one corm!
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-09-08

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: A tray full of young plants I grew from plants which I originally grew from seed, these flowered much sooner after two years.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-03-04

Gallery: Leaves
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: Leaves vary, some can be all silver or with a green edge. These are two year old plants from seed.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-01-18

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: Late to grow and flower in the UK but nice when it does.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2009-08-13

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: As good as or better than tropical Hibiscus!
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2009-08-08

Gallery: Stamens, filaments and pistils
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: This year the flowers started to show their true colours!
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2011-06-18

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: Give it time and it will eventually come true!
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2011-06-23

Gallery: Stem, scape, stalk or bark
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: The new stems grow from the roots underground, or from the base of the old stems in spring.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2008-05-14

Gallery: Closeup of buds, sepals and receptacles
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: Spectacular in bud!
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-08-21

Gallery: Stem, scape, stalk or bark
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: I left it in the pond over winter 2009/10, it survived deep ice to around 5\" but didn't survive the following harder winter!
Photo location: My pond, near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-05-05

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: I had hoped to see flowers but the last winter 2010/11 in the UK killed it.
Photo location: My pond, near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-06-11

Gallery: Closeup of buds, sepals and receptacles
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: This is usually later to flower in the UK.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-08-29

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: A wonderful sight late in the year!
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2010-10-12

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: Fully open, they make large flowers which stand up without staking.
Photo location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date of photo: 2009-10-18

Gallery: Closeup of buds, sepals and receptacles
Date submitted: December 23, 2011
Caption: I never see them open, the flowers make when day length decreases and I live too far north for that to happen before frosts kill them!
Photo location: My garden near Lincon UK
Date of photo: 2009-11-13