Fritillaria 2009

[Lesley Cox]

Mmm, Doug's looks quite like mine that everyone tells me ISN'T ruthenica.

[Maggi Young]

Mmm, Doug's looks quite like mine that everyone tells me ISN'T ruthenica.

You mean this one,from the previous page, Lesley?
 No we're saying that it IS ruthenica...

[Lesley Cox]

Sorry Maggi, I seem to be doing everything possible to confuse people. The one on the previous page IS ruthenica, as you say, and it was raised from seed from Vlastimil Pilous. Doug's looks like the OTHER  "ruthenica" I have from a couple of different local sources, which I now realize is montana or tenella or etc. I'd take a picture but it's usually one of the very earliest to flower for me and is already finished.

[Maggi Young]

Oh, Lesley, don't fret, I think I'm the one who gets confused.... sometimes all the threads just run together in my head  I've been scoffing plums this evening and I think my choc level has fallen too low. 

[Lesley Cox]

Two out fully today are:

a nice seedling from FGAGS (03) of Fritillaria aurea. It may well be a hybrid. The flower is a lot paler yellow than aurea, lemon really, and there is just the very faintest suggestion of chequering. As well, the petals curve outwards at the tips instead of inward. It's very pretty.


and this seedling from F. tubiformis var. moggridgei, two flowering stems side by side on the same bulb. Another is coming separately. While not as yellow as I think it should be, it is not sufficiently red to be straight tubiformis.

[Gerry Webster]

Lesley - I've seen F. tubiformis of this colour before & there is plenty of scope for discussion as to what they are.  Although Kew still recognises the name F. tubiformis  subsp. moggridgei I think it just as likely that all these forms are just colour variants of one species, F. tubiformis. Whatever their true identity, they are very handsome &, in your care, they seem to be thriving. Congratulations!

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks Gerry. It was seed as the variety, though a good long time ago and I don't remember where from, probably AGS. I always wanted it because I'd seen a brilliant golden yellow version in a friend's garden, huge, blooms, at that time totally new and awesome to me. But I like these very much.

[Janis Ruksans]

Started checking of pictures made in summer and putting names on them. On this slide you can see Fritillaria ussuriensis but I would like to name it FALLING IN LOVE
Janis

[Lesley Cox]

What can one say to that? Looks like the tangled web we weave, to me.

[Ragged Robin]

Definitely all embracing - maybe plants do have an affinity to one another and it isn't just mutually beneficial 

[Regelian]

Janis,

a striking foto!  Will this species be available on this years list?  I love a plant that embraces pot culture.  How are they in the open garden?

Lesley,

although my first thought upon seeing the foto was a tangled web, I quickly drifted to 'tapestry', as I work with fabric and the motif reminded me of Belgian and French botanical weaves.  The foto would translate wonderfully to graphic design.

Jamie

[Lesley Cox]

Here is an all yellow or rather yellow/green flower on Frit. rhodokanakis, one of a small patch which mostly have some red in them. This one hasn't flowered before though there have been others flower for 3 or 4 years.




The others in the patch are like this

[Lesley Cox]

Jamie, did you ever see the magnificent tapestries of Dom Robert? They were French I think and of wonderful birds, flowers and I remember one at an exhibition here in Dunedin many years ago, of little horses with waving manes and flashing feet. I would kill to have one. I have several pictures of them but as slides.

[Ragged Robin]

Here is an all yellow or rather yellow/green flower on Frit. rhodokanakis, one of a small patch which mostly have some red in them. This one hasn't flowered before though there have been others flower for 3 or 4 years.

A really lovely sunny yellow with green in your Frit. rhodokanakis group, Lesley, great to see on a cold grey day here in the Alps, thanks 

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis,

a striking foto!  Will this species be available on this years list?  I love a plant that embraces pot culture.  How are they in the open garden?

Lesley,

although my first thought upon seeing the foto was a tangled web, I quickly drifted to 'tapestry', as I work with fabric and the motif reminded me of Belgian and French botanical weaves.  The foto would translate wonderfully to graphic design.

Jamie

The F. ussuriensis is grown mostly outside with me, but stock is very limited.
Janis