Fritillaria 2018

[Claire Cockcroft]

The first dark Fritillaria camschatcensis I have raised from seed.
...Claire

[Maggi Young]

Fritillaria Seed Reference now showing 119 taxa from Fritillaria Icones:
 download  from here:
http://www.fritillariaicones.com/info/seeds.html

[GordonT]

Only one species of Fritillaria graces our garden.... so far   Thankfully there actually was an alba bulb in the packet of F meleagris!

[Rick R.]

Any ideas on what this is?
The seed was labeled F. carica in the NARGS seed ex.  Certainly not that....
maybe caucasica?  armena?

[Steve Garvie]

Any ideas on what this is?
The seed was labeled F. carica in the NARGS seed ex.  Certainly not that....
maybe caucasica?  armena?
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Nice plant Rick!
It certainly looks very similar to the plant I grow as F. caucasica.

[Steve Garvie]

The late flowering Frits here are the Chinese species, F. affinis and F. recurva.

Fritillaria tortifolia -the large square-shouldered flowers have intricate red-purple markings inside.


Fritillaria yuminensis -the flowers have a bluish hue in good light (I couldn’t move my plant out of its frame as it had intertwined with neighbouring plants).


Fritillaria pallidiflora -quite robust and does well in Scottish gardens.


Fritillaria verticillata -the true species is similar (if not identical) to albidiflora; most commercial sources of verticillata prove to be thunbergii.


Fritillaria monantha -an attractive species grown in China as a medicinal source. The flowers are similar to but less densely tessellated than hupehensis.


Fritillaria hupehensis -another species grown for medicinal use. The flowers are slightly larger and darker (more heavily tessellated) than monantha.

[annew]

Beautiful, Steve.

[colin e]

Very nice Steve; you do have the advantage of being cooler than me. All of mine have gone to sleep or are thinking about it.

Colin

[Steve Garvie]

Very nice Steve; you do have the advantage of being cooler than me. All of mine have gone to sleep or are thinking about it.

Colin

Aye Colin, I’m a real cool dude! 

At least when your plants go to sleep they wake up again. 

[Steve Garvie]

I forgot to post the images of affinis and recurva last month.

Fritillaria affinis -typical form.



Fritillaria affinis -yellow form.



Fritillaria affinis var. tristulis



Fritillaria recurva



Fritillaria camschatcensis -I think this is the Eurasian form (??).

[Yann]

fantastic collection!!! 

[Maggi Young]

From Fritillaria Icones ....

Six new white-flowered Japanese Fritillaria named :

http://www.fritillariaicones.com/info/news/news_2018/Naruhashi_2018.html

[bibliofloris]

I’m not sure if this is best asked here or in another thread (sorry, still finding my way around!)

What fairly easy species would you frit fans suggest for a summer-dry area under deciduous trees in my Mediterranean-ish climate (cool, dry summers, fairly mild, wet winters, and northern latitude)? I’ve got sandy soil that drains very well, and I can grow F. meleagris in other areas with some irrigation.

I’m looking at F. involucrata, pontica, montana, and whittallii - do these seem reasonable to try? Any others? It’s likely I’ll need to grow them from seed, so I’d appreciate any opinions, cautions, or suggestions before I begin!

Thanks,
Kelly

[Hannelore]

What fairly easy species would you frit fans suggest for a summer-dry area under deciduous trees in my Mediterranean-ish climate (cool, dry summers, fairly mild, wet winters, and northern latitude)? I’ve got sandy soil that drains very well, and I can grow F. meleagris in other areas with some irrigation.

I’m looking at F. involucrata, pontica, montana, and whittallii - do these seem reasonable to try? Any others? It’s likely I’ll need to grow them from seed, so I’d appreciate any opinions, cautions, or suggestions before I begin!

I asked Eugenijus Dambrauskas, the owner von www.augisbulbs.com in LITHUANIA the same question. He recommended:

Fritillaria bucharica - dry lover
Fritillaria eduardii  - dry lover
F.crassifolia ssp.curdica - trouble -free
F.michailowskyi - easy, very attractive
F.acmopethala, F.olivieri, F.uva-vulpis  - H-50cm, very easy.

Unfortunately he has already stopped selling, but perhaps you can find some of these elsewhere.

BW
Hannelore

[Maggi Young]

I’m not sure if this is best asked here or in another thread (sorry, still finding my way around!)

What fairly easy species would you frit fans suggest for a summer-dry area under deciduous trees in my Mediterranean-ish climate (cool, dry summers, fairly mild, wet winters, and northern latitude)? I’ve got sandy soil that drains very well, and I can grow F. meleagris in other areas with some irrigation.

I’m looking at F. involucrata, pontica, montana, and whittallii - do these seem reasonable to try? Any others? It’s likely I’ll need to grow them from seed, so I’d appreciate any opinions, cautions, or suggestions before I begin!

Thanks,
Kelly

  You could try John Lonsdale of  Edgewood - The Lonsdale Garden at http://www.edgewoodgardens.net
See his profile as a forumist  at JohnLonsdale for other contact details. He grows and sells a lot of bulbs.