FRITILLARIA 2017

[Maggi Young]

I imagine ( hope!) you are all familiar with the wonderful site of Laurence Hill - Fritillaria Icones

" New Fritillaria images for #RHSChelsea delivered to the framers today, see the whole set in the Great Pavilion in four weeks time"  - worth looking out for if visiting Chelsea, methinks.

[Maggi Young]

News from Fritillaria Icones of  an article with open access -  Fritillaria ariana in Curtis's Botanical Magazine by Martyn Rix & Kit Strange with illustrations by Joanna Langhorne.

Volume 34, Issue 1
April 2017
Pages 2–10

Plant Portraits
854. FRITILLARIA ARIANA

Liliaceae
Authors

    Martyn Rix,
    Kit Strange

    First published: April 2017
    DOI: 10.1111/curt.12174
 

Summary

Fritillaria ariana (Loz.-Lozinsk. & Vved.) Rix, is illustrated. The history of its discovery and its cultivation are discussed, and a painting and photograph of the habitat are provided.



http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/curt.12174/full


Some other articles on free access from that issue, too - such as....

855. IRIS STOLONIFERA : Iridaceae (pages 11–20)

Martyn Rix and Kit Strange

Version of Record online: 10 MAY 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/curt.12175

 


856. AETHIONEMA GRANDIFLORUM : Cruciferae (pages 21–28)

Sally Petitt

Version of Record online: 10 MAY 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/curt.12176

   

857. PLATANUS ORIENTALIS : Platanaceae (pages 29–40)

Martyn Rix and Michael F. Fay

Version of Record online: 10 MAY 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/curt.12177

 


858. PAEONIA PARNASSICA : Paeoniaceae (pages 41–50)

Dimitris Tzanoudakis and Martyn Rix

Version of Record online: 10 MAY 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/curt.12178

 


859. GENTIANA PARADOXA : Gentianaceae (pages 51–57)

Richard Wilford

Version of Record online: 10 MAY 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/curt.12179

see them here:
 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/curt.2017.34.issue-1/issuetoc

[Steve Garvie]

Fritillaria recurva - a bit dusty and with a spider's web.

[sokol]

Great plant, I like these orange Fritillaria.

Here are some from the last days.

    Frit. biflora x liliacea 20170512
    Frit. affinis gelb 20170512
    Frit. affinis 20170512 
    Frit. drenovskii 20170501 
    Frit. lusitanica 20170511

[Maggi Young]

I imagine ( hope!) you are all familiar with the wonderful site of Laurence Hill - Fritillaria Icones

" New Fritillaria images for #RHSChelsea delivered to the framers today, see the whole set in the Great Pavilion in four weeks time"  - worth looking out for if visiting Chelsea, methinks.

From Fritillaria Icones about this  innovative method of picturing the characteristics of the plants  :


If you didn't make to the RHSChelsea you can download a PDF of the exhibit Deconstructed Fritillaria   - http://www.fritillariaicones.com/…/news/news…/Hill_2017.html

Click on the photos below the text on the linked page.

[colin e]

Sorry, no pretty pictures - just a comment on repotting. Down here in Somerset I thought I would be early enough to have no live roots on my Chinese Fritillaria (Xinjiang group) but no. Some had 2 to 3cm roots; not very long but enough to be awkard and I did break the odd one. The attached picture shows a Fritillaria walujewii bulb with a number of new roots just starting. So if you have not done them yet and they have gone dormant I would think about doing them! 

[colin e]

I am posting this on because if like me you thought you still had loads of time to rearrange your plunges, think again! I was happily rearranging my plunges (20th Aug 2017) and was very surprised when I went to move one of my Fritillaria chitralensis pots  (from Fritillaria Group seed) and found live root a good 3 to 4cm already out of the bottom of the pot! I continued at a more careful pace and also found root out of the bottom of pots with Fritillaria walujewii, eduardii var. inodora and davidii. The Fritillaria davidii has also just started to come into leaf in a number of pots.

[sokol]

I observed the same as Colin while repotting during the last two weeks. There were much more species with root growth than in other years at this time. It seems to be quite normal for the big Fritillaria like persica, eduardii or sewerzowii and the Eastern species but not for messanensis, mutabilis or montana.

I am looking for Frit. chitralensis for a long time but never have had any seedling here.

[Maggi Young]

Info re    Cytotaxonomical analysis of eleven Turkish Fritillaria L. (Liliaceae) taxa

http://www.fritillariaicones.com/info/news/news_2017/Kocyigit_et_al_2016.html

[Arda Takan]

why is Fritillaria uva-vulpis  triploid?
Is it hybrid or something?

[Maggi Young]

The excellent Fritillaria Icones site has ID pix of Fritillaria seed - a useful adjunct to the SRGC's Seed ID pages

http://www.fritillariaicones.com/info/seeds.html

[colin e]

I have given in. Unlike Ian I keep an eye on night time temperatures as to when I do my first watering of my Fritillaria. I like it to be under 10c and going lower; although our night time temperatures are not really dropping yet they are around the 10c level. So I gave the Fritillaria their first watering into the pot today, though I still had a number of pots that despite being dry prior to this, had roots out of the bottom. I now have to keep them just moist enough for growth but not too wet to rot them. I always worry at this time. The picture below is one side of the greenhouse. The other picture shows some of the pots of Fritillaria seeds that I have sown this year in the plant fridge in the garage. They went in today having been out in the open since the beginning of September when they were sown. I do this because down here in the south we do not always get a long enough cold spell to get good germination.   

[Maggi Young]

In Aberdeen we scarcely need to watch a thermometer, Colin!  It's been below 10 degrees c here at night for some time!

[colin e]

Following on from my October post, I have given in regarding watering. Of course the night time temperatures had to decide to go all over the place and not fall steadily. Over the two week period since the 01/10/17 our night time temperatures have been anything from 4c to 14c which is not what I would like. The up side to this is the roots are defiantly on the move. In addition to what I said I had before, I now have another 25 pots with good root growth out of the bottom. When this happens I put a red label in the pot to let me know it has roots growing into the plunge. This tells me not to lift the pot or I will break roots. I like roots growing into the plunge for two reasons. One, you need a good root system to have a chance for a bigger and better bulb at the end of the growing season. Secondly, as I keep the sand plunge just damp I can keep the pot on the dryer side if I want (I use plastic pots) and not worry about triggering early dormancy in spring through lack of water or the bulb rotting through over-watering. Well that is how my brain thinks it works.
The seeds in the fridge: no Fritillaria seeds have germinated and emerged but as you can see some weed seeds that had blown into the pots while they were outside have!

[Maggi Young]

Something oddly comforting at times about weed seedlings in pots-  if they are healthy then the soil is healthy and if they are too wet or dry  it's a handy  signal!