Fritillaria 2014

[Maggi Young]

Looks like the delightful F. drenovskyi, Darren

[Darren]

Many thanks Maggi 

Whilst a bit annoyed it wasn't what it was supposed to be I do rather like it and it makes a nice change from the usual acmopetala/meleagris interlopers.

[Maggi Young]

F. drenovskyi is a real charmer to my mind - the two toned outers and a wonderful golden interior. Plus it was the very first Frit. that I was given by (the late) Harold Esslemont, many moons ago - I was greatly honoured by  the gift.

[fermi de Sousa]

This little frit flowered last year for the first time from seed from NARGS 2005 as F.gussichiae but I suspect it's a dwarf form of Fritillaria graeca - anyone care to confirm?
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

The next frit to flower will be Fritillaria messanensis ssp messanensis
cheers
fermi

[art600]

This little frit flowered last year for the first time from seed from NARGS 2005 as F.gussichiae but I suspect it's a dwarf form of Fritillaria graeca - anyone care to confirm?
cheers
fermi

Fermi

Very nice 

[Maggi Young]

Fritillaria Events at Kew Gardens

Laurence Hill will be giving a talk at Kew, on 5 November 2014. He will talk about his large photographic work, ‘Fritillaria- a family portrait’, part of the current exhibition ‘Inspiring Kew’ in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. Details of the talk for the 5 November can be found on the Kew website here http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/gallery-talk-from-laurence-hill-5-november

Gallery Talk from Laurence Hill
5 November 2014, 2pm

Join artist Laurence Hill as he talks about his large photographic work, ‘Fritillaria- a family portrait’, part of the current exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, ‘Inspiring Kew’.

Venue: Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art
Price: Included with entry to the Gardens, booking required due to limited space. Please contact the gallery on 0208 332 3622 or shirleysherwoodgallery@kew.org to book a place.

Further details of the exhibitions in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery can be found here: http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/inspiring-kew

Laurence Hill does, of course, have his own exceptional website sharing his work on Fritillaria at http://www.fritillariaicones.com/


Fritillaria imperialis - Laurence Hill


A Fritillaria family portrait by Laurence Hill

[Jan]

Fritillaria from Siberia

[Robert]

Fritillaria from Siberia

The Erythroniums look great too!

[Lesley Cox]

F. drenovskyi is one of my favourites too, especially today which is the 4th day of repotting - or planting where possible - my entire collections of frits, as moved from my previous garden getting on for two years ago (gosh, that long?) I have learned a painful lesson which is that frits don't like to be left in their pots without attention for that prolonged period of time, even longer for most of them as they were potted rather than planted out before. No water except from the sky, no feeding and precious little weeding, only the really obvious things like clover seedlings. Grasses have done most of the damage I think, and the continuous rain of this winter/spring. I've found that many pots are quite empty of bulbs at all, even though they came up in July-September. Very few flowered though and even some of those have gone altogether. F. drenovskyi however, seems to have flourished and even increased in number (I had 5 flowers in September) and the now dormant bulbs are looking plump and healthy. The contents of one pot of F. acmopetala have even succumbed to whatever the problems have been. So I'll never again neglect them so badly and for now, will gradually have to rebuild the collection as I love them so much.

[art600]

Photographed today

  Fritillaria karelinii

Wonder why so early

[Yann]

Arthur i've only discovered today and i'm speechless.
Do you grow it from seeds?

[art600]

Frit karelinii photographed Dec 22nd and Dec 31st

[udo]

Arthur,
A really nice plant. 
Here look, in the meantime, also the first points from the earth.

[melager]

 the pictures of the frits are Beautifull art600