Fritillaria 2009

[Boyed]

This beautifull frit with huge flowers I got from my Ukrainian friend Dmitriy who baught it from some Russian gardener under name Fritillaria grandiflora. It seem to be superb form of F. kotschyana grandiflora from Talish mnt (S Aserbaijan).
Janis

Janis,
I also grow this wonderful huge frit from Dmitriy and it is among my most favourite fritillarias. Stunning plant that I enjoy a lot!


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[Ragged Robin]

It looks wonderful against the grey of the rock and the colour inside of the flower is an added bonus - I wish it could become my favourite too

[Janis Ruksans]

Here started blooming of frits from Far East (Siberia) and China (in greenhouse)
Janis

[Sinchets]

Flowering today in the shade garden- Fritillaria meleagris 'Jupiter(?)'
Nice Frit house, Janis 

[Janis Ruksans]

Flowering today in the shade garden- Fritillaria meleagris 'Jupiter(?)'
Nice Frit house, Janis 

Thanks Simon. But this one isn't JUPITER.
Here first frits blooms outside - armena, caucasica, alburyana, aurea. After three years interruption the weather conditions allows blooming of georgous F. eduardii and raddeana. Although returned night frosts they are not so hard to kill plants as it happens in last springs.
Janis

[Sinchets]

Thanks Janis. Any idea which form it might be?

[Janis Ruksans]

Thanks Janis. Any idea which form it might be?

Unknown to me. Most possibly seedling. There are plenty on trade and very variable.
Janis

[Sinchets]

Two Fritillaria affinis flowering today in the garden. One is growing in clay under a tree, the other is growing in rubble, with added leaf mould, at the back of the house. 

[Janis Ruksans]

Few new frits just now blooming in greenhouse. The rarest is Fritillaria fusca from Nepal, near Lhasa, Caqrola pass, 5000m (I can't to wait when flower will open - I waited for this 7 years - bulbs I baught in 2001).
Janis

[Ragged Robin]

Two Fritillaria affinis flowering today in the garden. One is growing in clay under a tree, the other is growing in rubble, with added leaf mould, at the back of the house. 

So which is happiest do you think, Simon   

[Ragged Robin]

Few new frits just now blooming in greenhouse. The rarest is Fritillaria fusca from Nepal, near Lhasa, Caqrola pass, 5000m (I can't to wait when flower will open - I waited for this 7 years - bulbs I baught in 2001).
Janis

Is the other plant a young one in the same pot, Janis? The leaf colour of the F. fusca is very dark and dusky and I'm looking forward to seeing the flower open too.  You have some wonderful specimens in your greenhouse, it's great to see such variety of Frits and rarities too. 

[Sinchets]

Two Fritillaria affinis flowering today in the garden. One is growing in clay under a tree, the other is growing in rubble, with added leaf mould, at the back of the house. 

So which is happiest do you think, Simon   

It's hard to say- the one planted in clay was a bigger bulb with more umph. Needless to say the haven't been disturbed by voles 

[arillady]

Janis what an amazing colour to Fritillaria fusca

[Janis Ruksans]

Few new frits just now blooming in greenhouse. The rarest is Fritillaria fusca from Nepal, near Lhasa, Caqrola pass, 5000m (I can't to wait when flower will open - I waited for this 7 years - bulbs I baught in 2001).
Janis

Is the other plant a young one in the same pot, Janis? The leaf colour of the F. fusca is very dark and dusky and I'm looking forward to seeing the flower open too.  You have some wonderful specimens in your greenhouse, it's great to see such variety of Frits and rarities too. 

Every year some are dark and some light leaved (fusca). This one is the first to flower. In another pot no one will bloom and one is with dark leaves. I suppose that when I grew it outside all were with dark leaves. It is second year in pot and 4th in greenhouse. Really wondering about its blooming. Look at altitude from which it comes. Such plants usually are very difficult even to grow. I have problems with Corydalis cashmiriana here, but Frit. chitralensis grow quite well and blooms every year but I never got seeds.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Few frits from open garden
- Two selections of eduardii, superb form of michailowskyi with large flowers - best from some 10 aquisitions and aurea (dwarf form) and latifolia as they grow on open garden bed.
Janis