Fritillaria 2009

[Lesley Cox]

Photo v. grainy because light was low at the time (5:30 or so) - sorry!

Alex

We're not complaining Alex.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

The grainy photo can't hide the beauty of this one Alex !
Very nice indeed !!!

[Mark Griffiths]

Fingers crossed this should should be a pic of F.pluriflora. I got this a long time ago as F. liliacea but even with my diagnostic skills I could tell when it eventually flowered it wasn't. Past few years I have let it set seed and sent that off to AGS/Frit group. I sowed last year's crop and it came up like grass..in January. Luckily I stuck it under a fan so I didn't lose any to mould. Then February came the greenfly. Still ok so I'm hopeful of keeping them going.

[ashley]

Beautiful plants Alex and Mark.

[Michael J Campbell]

Fritillaria pudica

[WimB]

Beautiful plants, everyone.

I like the pudica, a very clear yellow.

[Alex]

A few Frits. and others - a better shot of F. ariana (good form), F. bucharica and a view of a bit of my greenhouse including Tropaeolum tricolorum, Fritillaria striata and Corydalis schanginii ssp. ainae.

Cheers,

Alex

[Alex]

Otto, I try to pollinate it, in fact I have a single one year old seedling at the moment - came up lime cress last year but I seem to have lost most of them over the Summer for some reason. You are more than welcome if I get any more this year, can't guarantee what it will give though.

Cheers,

Alex

[Lesley Cox]

A beautiful pluriflora Mark.

[Michael]

Very nice Tropaeolum, Alex!

[tonyg]

Fritillaria stenanthera.  Raised from seed. 
Please can anyone advise on how to get seed off it?  I'm going to try tickling the flowers again but havr never got viable seed yet

[Lesley Cox]

I never got any seed from my single clone (gone now, alas) so I assumed it needed another to cross pollinate. Maybe seedlings from a single pod are too closely related?

[Jim McKenney]

Alex, I'm really favorably impressed by that Fritillaria striata. How tall is that plant? How big are the individual flowers?

[Alex]

Hi Jim,

The F. striata must be about 18in/45cm tall, and each flower is probably 4cm across I'd say. I got a single bulb 3 years ago, it had just 2 flowers the first year and has added 1 or 2 more each year, although i don't know how long I can expect that to continue. It seems happy, but no offsets and no seed yet. I have tried seed from commercial sources, but it has never germinated.

Alex

[Jim McKenney]

I'll have to show that image to my plants to see if I can shame them into better performance.
Congratulations, yours is stunning!