Fritillaria 2019/20 season

[Carolyn]

Lovely, Steve, what a super potful in that last photo.

[Karaba]

Yes, impressive pot ! how are they multiplicated , by seed or by division ? They are so identical !
I have collected some in the Alps and they all have a different stage of development in the same pot.

[colin e]

Steve that is a very good pot of tubiformis.

Colin

[Karaba]

Buds of my Fritilaria tubiformis are just emerging from he ground
and my F. crassifolia are not much higher.

[Steve Garvie]

Many thanks Carolyn, Yvain and Colin.
This is all a single clone Yvain.

I’d love to claim great skill and expertise in growing this pot of tubiformis but incompetence plays a big part. I started with a single bulb and nearly killed it a few years ago as a consequence of water-logged compost and exposure to too much heat under glass (whilst still in growth). The bulb split into lots of small bulbs slightly bigger than rice-grains. In the following years I’ve grown the small bulbs cooler in a sharply drained compost with lots of liquid feeds. The pot is kept in a shaded frame after flowering.

[ArnoldT]

Fritillaria imperialis.

Lives happily under a Russian Medlar.  Probably here for 25 years

[Steve Garvie]

Fritillaria grandiflora



Fritillaria bithynica



Fritillaria drenovskii



Fritillaria tubiformis ssp. moggridgei -a plant intermediate between pure moggridgei and tubiformis.



Fritillaria conica

[Gerdk]

Fritillaria messanensis var. atlantica

Gerd

[Yann]

Fritillaria tubiformis ssp. moggridgei -a plant intermediate between pure moggridgei and tubiformis.

Why intermediate? do you've a photo of the upper pattern on the flower?

[Rob-Rah]

Every single F. persica and imperialis in the garden has been destroyed by snails this year. Some 20 plants. They won't come back next year without leaves this year. What a waste.

[Steve Garvie]

Why intermediate? do you've a photo of the upper pattern on the flower?

Sorry I missed your post Yann.
No I don’t have an image of the upper pattern of the flower as the flower has gone over with the recent sunny weather. I bought this bulb from Susan Band (Pitcairn Alpines). Susan’s description on her web site is: “ Large chequered bell on smallish stems. An intermediate form between the purple tubiformis and the yellow moggridgei form.”

I have a potful of seedlings that should flower in a year or two. I’m hoping that they will be dumpy yellow chequered bells.

[Steve Garvie]

Some Frits from further east.

Fritillaria tortifolia





Fritillaria verticillata



Fritillaria yuminensis



Fritillaria walujewii -this Frit can get quite tall.

[Yann]

you own a great frits collection 

[Carolyn]

Steve,
Wonderful frits, especiallly Fritillaria walujewii, with such a striking colour contrast between the inside and outside of the petals.

[Steve Garvie]

Many thanks Yann and Carolyn.
I still have a few more to come.