Fritillaria 2014

[pehe]

Flowering today

Fritillaria reuteri and F. obliqua in the green house. F. eduardii and imperialis are in bud in the garden.

Poul

[Philip Walker]

F.elwesii

[udo]

in this days in flower,
Fritillaria gibbosa

[udo]

and more,
Fritillaria latifolia

[art600]

Dirk

The gibbosa is a fantastic plant - better than anything I have seen in the wild.

[mark smyth]

Mark I would say they are gross feeders, we throw everything at them in large amounts!  When I was a child Dad used to grow them on the compost heap!

so I better mulch them with leaf mould or old manure

[mark smyth]

Imperialis doesn't usually offset very much. Two stems for each original bulb suggests they have split and may be under a little stress. How deep have you planted them?

I think about 6 inches / 15cm

[arisaema]

I came across hundreds of these on Xiling, but none showed any signs of flowering... They grew on rocks from 1700m up to about 2300m, it was pouring down, so I didn't walk much higher.

[udo]

Dirk

The gibbosa is a fantastic plant - better than anything I have seen in the wild.

Many thanks Arthur.
I received this plant three years ago, with every spring more blossoms appeared. Am curious for the next year.

[hwscot]

Feeling a bit of an eejit here. Paid £30 last august for 20 bulbs of F. pudica and now have 20 nice plants of assyriaca / uva-vulpis. From one of the mainstream mail order places. Has anybody else been similarly caught?

[Matt T]

I had some Iris bought as Sheila Ann Germaney that came up as Katherine Hodgkin and some Narcissus jonquilla henriquesii that turned out to be N. fernandesii. I think misidentified plants is not uncommon when buying from the larger commercial suppliers, but smaller suppliers are not immune, especially when they are supplying bulbs they've not grow themselves. You should contact the seller and give them an opportunity to correct their mistake. Unfortunately, in my case the Iris seller hasn't even acknowledged my email, let alone offered to do anything about it 

[Tony Willis]

Dirk a fanastic gibbosa.

Fritillaria kotschyana

[fermi de Sousa]

and more,
Fritillaria latifolia

Dirk,
your fabulous F. gibbosa has blinded everyone to that upward facing F. latifolia!
Do they turn downwards when the flower stem elongates?
Difficult for them to be called "upside down tulips" when they're pointing up
cheers
fermi

[Vincent26]

Frilillaria tubiformis is blooming just when the snow melt, with many other plants like Crocus vernus, Scilla bifolia, Bulbocodium vernum...

[Jane]

I have just enjoyed reading through the Fritillaria 2014 posts, there really are some beautiful bulbs in this Genus.  I don't have many myself, but here is one I have labelled as Fritillaria sewerzowii flowering in our wet and windy conditions today.