FRITILLARIA 2011

[Janis Ruksans]

Fritillaria aurea seedling box
and hybrid between aurea and fleischeriana made in Gothenburg BG by Henrik
After that few pictures of second generation seedlings raised by me showing very great splitting between seedlings in both dirrections and some quite nice
and at last another parent - Fritillaria fleischeriana - true plant (usually after that name you will receive pinardii or even carica)
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Now some pictures of large and variable Fritillaria crassifolia family
the last is very unusually colored form of type subspecies with almost black flowers.
As last from today frits are
Fritillaria minima - one of smallest with beautifully bright yellow flowers
Fritillaria poluninii - another dwarf from Iran and as last quite large
Fritillaria strausii
and very last - Fritillaria caucasica
Janis

[art600]

Stunning Frits Janis 

[meanie]

So many gems on this post!
I've come to it late, so if you're not mentioned don't feel left out...
Stand outs for me were the F.baskilensis and karelina tadjikistanfrom Janis, and the F.minima from Janis also.

[Janis Ruksans]

Few pictures from today:
At first group of Fritillaria ruthenica and separate flower
Then Fritillaria rixii EZ-99
Fritillaria crassifolia aff. SLIZE-121 from Iran and as last
Fritillaria rerutheri
Janis

[Arda Takan]

reutheri is amazing

[christian pfalz]

fritillaria camschatcensis in bloom now.....

cheers
chris

[WimB]

Wonderful plants, Janis.

Like your F. camschatcensis too, Chris.

Here F. affinis is flowering.

[Maren]

Beautiful fritillarias. I particularly like the F. reutheri.

Your seedlings look very promising, how long did it take from pollination to flowering ?

[fredg]

My Fritillaria camschatcensis started opening this week.
They've multiplied nicely 

[TheOnionMan]

Love all the frits I see here... what could be better, so many frits, so little time .  I like em all, no discrimination, I wish Lily Beetle didn't like as much as I do.  I keep a small glass jar in the garden, the receptacle of demise for hand-picked red lily beetles whenever I see them.

Here's a tiny sweetie at first time bloom, F. eastwoodiae from Northern California.  My sole little bulb came from Jane McGary in 2005, and this year it finally flowered, and I'm delighted to see the little orange thimble blooms with rolled-back petal edges.  After 6 years, it was worth the wait!  Photos 1-2

To give some sense of scale, in the following view (photo 3) we see a dark maroon-purple F. meleagris on the left, the petite F. eastwoodiae in the center (what a scale difference!), and on the right is Tulipa vvedenskyi from Mary Sue Ittner, perhaps my favorite tulip species.  These all grow under a Fringe Tree, Chionanthus virginicus, which is tap-rooted and very late to leaf out, thus a good tree to underplant with spring bulbs (No, that's mot a rogue elephant trampling through my garden ).

[Boyed]

some shots from my fritillaria imperialis collection

[Boyed]

varigated cultivars

[Lesley Cox]

Mark I think the little F. eastwoodiae is worth the wait. I believe it is thought originally to have been a natural hybrid between F. recurva and something else, maybe micrantha? or ? If so, it's funny it takes so long to flower. Recurva takes only 4 years from sowing to flowering for me, much less than many European or Middle Eastern species.

Zhirair, what a wonderful collection of the one species. Most of us are very lucky to have an orange and a yellow growing well. Yours obviously love you a lot. They seem to be growing out of some kind of groundcover crop. What is this please? Is it to keep the bulbs cool or for added nutrition?

[Boyed]

Lesley,
thanks for the compliments!

I grow around 10 cultivars of this species. I grew my firts in my main garden, where the soil is wet-keeping and the location is not very sunny. The frits didn't feel so good there and some cultivars even refused to bloom, some bulbs cought fungal deseases.. Then I moved them to the country house, where the soil is very humus rich and very well drained, the location is very sunny. They perform very very well there and even don't require annual lifting. The grondcover is just formed of ordinary weeds. I visit the country house not very often, mainly during week-ends and not always find time to remove the weeds. Though the frits look quite nice with such combination.