Fritillaria 2012

[Tony Willis]

Janis

very nice frits and photographs of them.

Gerry

interesting comment re named forms. When I was looking at F. latifolia in the wild I saw dozens and no variation between them. I think like many other 'named forms' these variations  must occur very infrequently.
I wonder what they looked like?

[Jan]

Rhinopetalum stenantherum

[Jan]

My Fritillaria ussuriensis , North Korea

[Jan]

Rhinopetalum bucharicum of Northeast Afghanistan 4.200m.Flowers in our garden about a month later than the classical bucharicum of Usbekistan or Tadjikistan

[wolfgang vorig]

Hallo Jan and Janis, very nice frits

[Jan]

Hallo Jan and Janis, very nice frits

Wolfgang, the color is beautiful, I envy 

[Hoy]

You all show such beautiful frits! Here only F meleagris are unscathed by the slugs.
However, one of the white ones has been strange in all years and now it is stranger than ever.  The stem is 2 - 3 times as tall and thick as the ordinary ones and the flower has many more tepals than usuall. It is also two flowers to the stem.

It is a virus or a mutation? It has been different for several years and no other plant shows similar symptoms.

[fredg]

Wonderful plants these

1 & 2 Fritillaria biflora
3      Fritillaria acmopetala

[Jan]

Fritillaria regelii, North Afganistan, plants height 30cm

[ronm]

Loving your F.biflora Fred, .


I'm hoping to post some pictures of F. involucrata growing in the garden later. Anyone who wants Frits growing amongst other plants in their garden could do a lot worse than planting this species.

In the meantime for anyone who, like me, is a lover of this species, here's a nice page of it growing in the wild,


http://www.iris-bulbeuses.org/patrimoine/Fritillaria-involucrata.htm

[Gerry Webster]

In the meantime for anyone who, like me, is a lover of this species, here's a nice page of it growing in the wild,
http://www.iris-bulbeuses.org/patrimoine/Fritillaria-involucrata.htm

It's interesting that F. involucrata on  Montagne de la Sainte-Victoire is flowering with Narcissus assoanus. At least in the UK this narcissus needs a hard bake to make it flower.

[Susan Band]

This lovely american Fritillaria recurva narrowly escaped being stood on by a deer in the garden. It was from Ron Ratko seed and has been growing outside in a gritty bed. This is the first year they have flowered. Some of the stems are different lengths, don't know if they will stay this way in future years or is they will standardize when they are fully grown.
Will have to post a picture later, Fred must be up early fixing
Susan

[ronm]

A lot of my F.recurva are from the same source Susan. I find there is a great deal of variation in the height and that this tends to remain from year to year. I find this with all my seed grown Frits though, and perhaps we shouldn't expect anything else from what is after all genetically different material.
Its very encouraging for me that you are growing them outside in a gritty bed. I have enough flowering size bulbs this year to try  the same, come planting time in October.

[Peter II]

Fritillaria pontica

[Maggi Young]

Nice Frit. pontica, Peter