Bulbocodium vernum, now Colchicum bulbocodium, is an intriguing early spring-flowering bulb with elongated lavender-pink petals. Perfect for rock gardens.

Colchicum autumnale 'Alboplenum' is one of the most beautiful of the autumn crocus with pure white double-petaled flowers.

Colchicum autumnale 'Album' is a vigorous cultivar with vase-shaped, snow white flowers produced in profusion.

Colchicum autumnale 'Nancy Lindsay' is a vigorous cultivar with bright mauve-pink flowers with a white line down the middle of each petal and dark purple stems.

Colchicum autumnale 'Pleniflorum' (syn. 'Roseum Plenum') is a vigorous cultivar with double violet-pink flowers produced in profusion.

Colchicum byzantinum (syn. C. autumnale var. major) produces large bright mauve-pink flowers with a white stripe down each petal and a darker tip.

Colchicum byzantinum 'Innocence' is a beautiful autumn crocus with large white petals flushed with pink slowly turning to pure white with purple tips.

Among the largest of the autumn crocus, Colchicum macrophyllum has long, pointed petals that are tesselated pale pink on a white background.

Colchicum speciosum 'Atrorubens' is a vigorous plant with deep pink to wine purple flowers with icy white centres atop purple stems.

Colchicum x agrippinum is an easy-to-grow autumn crocus producing multiple flowers that are checkered with pink and white.

Colchicum 'Dick Trotter' produces glowing deep pink flowers with a white star and yellow anthers at the centres.

Colchicum 'Harlekijn' is a unique autumn crocus producing multiple bicolour flowers in white and pinkish purple.

Colchicum 'Jarka' is a vigorous plant with deep violet-pink flowers tipped with white.

Colchicum 'Lilac Bedder' is a vigorous autumn crocus producing amethyst-pink flowers with white centres and yellow anthers.

Colchicum 'Spartacus' produces silky-lavender pink flowers with a white star and yellow-orange anthers.

Colchicum 'The Giant' is one of the tallest, easiest to grow, and floriferous of the autumn crocus with up to 10 lavender-pink flowers per bulb.

Colchicum 'Violet Queen' is a vigorous plant with bright purple, tesselated flowers with white lines down the throats.

Colchicum 'Waterlily' is one of the most beautiful of the autumn crocus producing multiple double-petaled, lavender-pink flowers per bulb.

Disporum cantoniense 'Night Heron' or Chinese fairy bells is a beautiful and stately evergreen perennial that emerges flushed with burgundy.

Gloriosa carsonii has striking flowers with yellow rippled petals centred with burgundy-red.

Gloriosa greenii offers greenish yellow to lemon yellow flowers with thick, leathery, lightly rippled petals.

Gloriosa lutea has pale lemon-yellow flowers that are crisped on the edges and turn orange-yellow as they age.

Gloriosa superba 'Himalayan Select' is a rare selection with bright, firey red flowers with recurved tepals (frequently more twisted than the picture) and a lemon-yellow base.

Gloriosa superba 'Rothschildiana' has striking flowers with broad, bright red, rippled petals with golden yellow bases.

Sandersonia aurantiaca has pendulous, bell-shaped, bright orange flowers that look like Chinese lanterns.