Description

Colchicum autumnale Alboplenum is a rare, fully double white-flowered variety of the classic meadow saffron. With multiple layers of clean white petals and a distinctive frilled form, this cultivar adds refined elegance to autumn plantings. It emerges without foliage, making it ideal for high-visibility areas like lawns, gravel paths, or formal borders.

Highly prized by collectors and heritage gardeners, Alboplenum naturalises slowly but reliably when left undisturbed. Its pristine colour and unique form make it a standout in low-input grasslands or restoration planting, and it performs best in moist, fertile, but free-draining soils. Foliage appears in spring and dies back in early summer.