The Fritillaria Group

[Maggi Young]

News re  Virus pandemic actions - from Laurence Hill‎  of the Fritillaria Group


"Following the latest UK government advice the next Fritillaria Group meeting scheduled for March 29th is cancelled." 

[Maggi Young]

From  Bob Wallis

"I am just packing the latest Fritillaria Group journal to send it out to the members of the Group and will take them to the post office today. I have some spare ones so they can be sent to anyone joining the Group in the near future. There are articles on growing Fritillaries in the garden, on the Rhinopetalums and on how to grow Fritillaria stenanthera to Medal-winning standard and lots of fabulous pictures."

[Maggi Young]

Latest news from the Frit. Group :  "Website news:  we have just posted e-copies of the Fritillaria Group Journal numbers 45 and 46 on to our website.   They can be found here: http://www.fritillaria.org.uk/journal.html
I hope that you enjoy reading them.  If you would like hard copies we still have a few left and/or if you would like the 2020 issues number 47 and 48 you can join the Fritillaria Group by contacting us here:
http://www.fritillaria.org.uk/join.html    "

[Maggi Young]

Judith Lundberg-Felten shared a link to the group: Fritillaria Group.

"I had the greatest pleasure to have Laurence Hill as my podcast guest. We talked about botanical photography of fritillaries and how and why he established the Fritillaria icones website. Lots of passion for fritillaries, observations of the life of bulbous plants and practical tips for botanical photography. Enjoy listening via the link, spotify, apple, google podcast.... There will be a 2nd part of my interview with Laurence coming out next week. "
Fritillaria Icones - Bridging Science and Art • Flora-L
https://flora-l.com/fritillaria-icones-bridging-science-and-art/?fbclid=IwAR3URCLYrIC0VohipR65A4TWj_qG1K70rz2EloBMiKalB0rf9nD52tO2LGI

[Maggi Young]

In IRG 140 August 2021, a new fritillary species from the Fergana Valley, southern Kyrgyzstan,  Fritillaria rugillosa (subgen. Rhinopetalum; Liliaceae) is described by Alexander Naumenko and Dimitri Zubov.

Second article  is Patagonian Verbenas - Junellia ( part 1) by Martin Sheader, a marine biologist from Southampton, who is known for a  great interest in all plants.   Dr Sheader has travelled extensively in this part of South America and his book ‘Flowers of the Patagonian Mountains’ is the most comprehensive photographic guide yet published to the area’s diverse and fascinating flora.
   
Click the link to download and read - it's free!

https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2021Aug261630008637IRG_140.pdf

Kurt Vickery - from Facebook:

Fritillaria rugillosa (Rhinopetalum) Earlier in the year I posted pictures of a Fritillary that at the time was known as aff gibbosa sp nova ( was also in my seed list as this and so please adjust your labels) It has now been described by my friends Alexander Naumenko (discoverer) and Dima Zubov as F.rugillosa - Description can be found on the excellent 'International rock garden on-line magazine' via the SRGC website. Sincere thanks to Alexander for the material that has already allowed me to distribute seed around the world


Fritillaria rugillosa, photo Kurt Vickery

[Maggi Young]

Fritillaria Group Autumn Meeting RHS - Royal Horticultural Society Garden Wisley 21 November 2021
Talks by Adrian Cooper  amd Laurence Hill



Talks programme:

    11.15am: Experiments with growing bulbs from around the World, in a time of climate change with Dr Adrian Cooper
    2.15pm: Fritillaria subgenus Liliorhiza: Arizona to West Sayan with Laurence Hill


https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley/viewevent?EFID=39&ESRC=CMS&fbclid=IwAR3Nbw6aSWQ3OR331-HaH_CRmDV7RjSvVC34hweX3ohCM59bW5PiaN_KsoY

[Maggi Young]

Next Fritillaria Group meeting :  3rd April

[Maggi Young]

New Fritillaria paper  - and some other newer articles too- can be found here :

Fritillaria macedonica Bornm., a new species for the flora of Greece
August 2022
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362832880_Fritillaria_macedonica_Bornm_a_new_species_for_the_flora_of_Greece


Fritillaria kordestanica (Liliaceae), a new species from western Iran    July 2022
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361821750_Fritillaria_kordestanica_Liliaceae_a_new_species_from_western_Iran

[Australis]

Thanks Maggi - always interested in this type of material.

[Maggi Young]

So sorry to hear of the death of Pat Huff, longterm editor of the Friit Group magazine - described by Laurence Hill as  "A quite dedicated lady who corralled writers, photographers and botanical artists to contribute to 30 journals for The Fritillaria Group. Many are freely available on the website http://www.fritillaria.org.uk/journal.html"



Our condolences to her family and friends.

[Maggi Young]

Details of  coming meetings and zoom talks  of the Frit Group : http://www.fritillaria.org.uk/meetings.html

[Maggi Young]

Frit Group News:  AGM and a zoom talk  on Sunday 22nd Oct at 10:30 BST.
Zoom Talk: Sunday 22 October 2023
10:30 (British Summer Time): AGM

11:45 (British Summer Time): Lecture “Liliaceae: Jewels of the North” by Chris Gardner

​Chris is the co-owner of Viranatura tours and leads botanical and wildlife tours all over the World. He will give us a kind of travelogue overlain with lots of facts that trace the key centres for Fritillaria, Lilium, Tulipa and Calochortus, their climates, etc, differences in each region, why that is, geology, etc. He will move through the Med onto Central Asia, thence China, and then leap to California.

​To obtain the Zoom links to the AGM and Lecture, members should email the secretary Sally Adams at zifty1@zen.co.uk