Fritillaria 2007

[biodiversite]

F. caucasica in my garden. Unfortunatly, no vegetative multiplication...

[David Nicholson]

No picture coming through, just the little red cross and the cross isn't clickable. Judging from responses on other threads do we have a problem??

[PEAK]

I would say "Huston we do"!

[Ian Y]

We are looking into a possible problem with some of the pictures not appearing on the site, replaced by a box and a red cross.
I can view the primulas and most of the others but I cannot see the latest fritillaria picture.
We will find out what is happening and report back.

[SueG]

Me too - no pictures to see.
I bought this on Saturday from (senior moment here as I've forgotten the chaps name!) Joe Sharman who gave a talk on Plant Varigation - and very interesting it was too!
Frit raddeana and close up, then Frit sewerzowii which I've had now for a couple of years - is it self fertile? I've tried with my paint brush but got no seeds.

[Ian Y]

It looks like the picture problem occured last night as it appears that new posts with pictures are appearing ok. I have asked Mr Admin to look into it for us.

Just to test here is a Fritillaria crassifolia in flower just now.

[Maggi Young]

Fred has reported a server change at the host, last night so this was hopefully just a one-time glitsch. Bio's frit pic hasn't come up however, unlike some of the other missing pix, so I have emailed to ask if he/she will repost it.

[David Nicholson]

Seems OK tonight all pictures so far are "seeable"

[Lesley Cox]

I've not had any seed either, on my single bulb of F. sewerzovii, though I hand pollinate religiously every year (5 now).

[Mark Griffiths]

If I can get the pics to work I have two mystery Frits. The yellow/brown one I got back in 93..still only one bulb! I got it as F.carica and was told when I asked.."oh, that's the brown form". I think as that came from a well known expert I took that on trust and have even submitted seed to the AGS I think. However, I haven't seen a pic of F.carica that looks like this. Also I saw somewhere in an Archibald seedlist that F.carica and F.pinardii are distinguished by colour only..so maybe it's F. pinardii?  The green and brown one..well, I have it labelled F.aurea..I was going to get an id here and then ask him for a replacement. However, I just noticed that I had an unlabelled pot which seems to be showing a fat yellow chequered bud..so it looks like a mix up at this end. Even so, I'd be interested in an id, I think it might be F.amana?

 

[david m]

Mark,
I am no expert, but I have an almost identical  frit. which I grew from AGS seed labelled F. pinardii.
It has about gone over so it's not worth a photo.
David

[Mark Griffiths]

Hi David, thanks for that, I guess you mean the first one? Any ideas on the second? btw, I suspect being an expert on frits is a hard thing..they are still evolving themselves!

[David Shaw]

Thought I had better photogaph this brave hero before it gets flattened by the snow on Sunday

[Lesley Cox]

Your F. raddeana is just beautiful David, and a good height too. Mine are seedlings, not flowered yet, but several posted on this and the old Forum have seemed very short at bloom time and not therefore, very impressive, though very nice. But these are super. And I really like all that excited "hair" standing on end.

Yes to F. pinardii, paler than mine but still typical I think. Could the lower one be graeca perhaps? or something close? The BD will know for sure.

[Lesley Cox]

And in your lower pic Mark, what's that yellow to the right of the frit flower?