Fritillaria 2010

[Gerry Webster]

I have to agree with Janis Shelagh, re the leaves anyway. They ARE typical of F. davidii so that your plant is VERY exciting, being grown from seed in the first place and being such a great colour variation. Are you able to reveal the source of your seed?

At the moment my computer is working rather better than it has been so I am able to see Shelagh's pics more clearly than when I posted previously. Relying on memory, I agree that the leaves look correct. Curiously, Flora of China  does not draw attention to the distinctive leaves but it does refer to the tepals being "papillose-tuberculate adaxially";  this can be seen (just) on the close-up pic. The only plant of F. davidii I have ever seen in the flesh is that of Bob & Rannveig Wallis (quite a time ago) & I remember the flowers being of a darker yellow with brown markings but presumably there is colour variation.

[arisaema]

If anyone has a few spare rice grains of F. davidii for sale or trade when they are repotting later in the season, I would be very interested!

[Janis Ruksans]

Fritillaria alburyana today on open garden bed.
Janis

[Sinchets]

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And just for the heck of it, I'm throwing in a photo of F. kittaniae, this is it's first flowering, and it is tiny tiny, about 3" tall (7.5 cm)... I'm not familiar with the species, does it look right?
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Good luck next year, Mark. I did have a very pretty F.aurea X pinardii a few years ago- which I am hoping I have been able to make again this year.
I have only read a description of F.kittaniae- but yours fits with it- I remember it was said to be like a yellow pinardii with reddish 'stripes'. Well done- my one purchase of F.kittaniae turned out to be a pale yellow F.carica.

[udo]

This weekend in flower,
Fritillaria grandiflora ( i hope ), 3-years old seedlings

[Gerry Webster]

This weekend in flower,
Fritillaria grandiflora ( i hope ), 3-years old seedlings

Looks right to me Dirk. A very handsome species.

[Lesley Cox]

To me too. Super big flowers for such young plants. Well named.

The alburyanas are just beautiful.

So far as I can gather, all the F. davidii in cultivation, at least in the UK so far, and in Australia, has originated with the Wallises, whose form (a single clone?) doesn't apparently set seed, so it's no wonder we've assumed the species was ALL like theirs. Perhaps if theirs and Shelagh's could get together, seed might be obtained and different variation would become common or at least available.

[Michael J Campbell]

Just two today.

Fritillaria michaelovskyi.
Fritillaria lusitanica,? I hope.

[Janis Ruksans]

This weekend in flower,
Fritillaria grandiflora ( i hope ), 3-years old seedlings

My frits received as F. grandiflora from Russia blooms now, too. But what is "grandiflora"? Is it kotschyana subsp. grandiflora or another?
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

If anyone has a few spare rice grains of F. davidii for sale or trade when they are repotting later in the season, I would be very interested!

Ask me at start of June. My davidii suffered this winter, so I will replant them and at presrent I don't know how they will look, but some pots seem that recovers.
Janis

[Ragged Robin]

Janis, your Fritillaria alburyana is fabulous, such a pretty colour and low growing 

Michael, great photos of your Frits - good to have an taste of what to look forward to here with F. michaelovskyi

[WimB]

Janis, I have to agree with Robin, that alburyana is stunning.

Here's a common one, but still I like the flower:

Fritillaria persica

[udo]

This weekend in flower,
Fritillaria grandiflora ( i hope ), 3-years old seedlings

Looks right to me Dirk. A very handsome species.

Gerry, many thanks.

[Janis Ruksans]

A pair of "dwarfs" in outside garden

Fritillaria latifolia nobilis
Fritillaria aurea - both excellent growers in garden

A pair pictures of another yellow Caucasian - F. collina, it is not so easy outside

With Fritillaria reutheri I never risked outside although by color similar F. michailowskyi I'm growing outside without any problems

Fritillaria kotschyana Crayton Craigton Max - raised by Ian Young

Fritillaria gibbosa WHIR-056 - difficult even in greenhouse

Janis

[Maggi Young]

Lovely Frits, Janis.

Fritillaria kotschyana Crayton Max - raised by Ian Young

This is correctly called  F. kotschyana 'Craigton Max'