Fritillaria 2012

[ronm]

Despite my best efforts with a paint brush, this has to be the worst year for setting of the seed since I started.
Here are three that look to be developing well, but there aren't many more.

[ronm]

That's a very interesting Frit in this weeks Bulb Log Ian, 'Craigton Cascade'. I see it has been around for a few years.

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=376.msg9671#msg9671

What is its history please?

Edit - I see you explained some in a previous Bulb Log.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/160408/log.html

Appeared earlier on the AGS website.

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/results/shows2006/shows/midland/images/Jim_McGregor/sizedDSCN1266.JPG.html

[olegKon]

Fritillaria season has just started here but in a few days nearly all of them will be in bloom
1. Fritillaria euboica
2. Fritillaria raddeana
3,4 Fritillaria aff.chlorantha

[ronm]

Loving your Frits Oleg.
Great to hear your season is just starting . Hope we can see all your Frits flowering as they mature. Thanks.

[ronm]

Has anyone got any Frits still flowering or are they all finished for this year? ( Northern Hemisphere obviously )

[olegKon]

A lot here,Ron.
1.2. Variations of Frotillaria crassifolia kurdica from the same sourse. A piece of luck
3. Fritillaria hermonis
4. Fritillaria wittalii
5. Fritillaria crassifolia crassifolia
6. Fritillaria rhodokanacis
Many more with the next post
 

[olegKon]

1. Fritillaria hermonis ammana
2,3. Two forms of fritillaria sewertzovii
4,5. Fritillaria elwesii and latakensis (find them difficult to distinguish)
6. Fritillaria bythinica
7. Fritillaria monanthos
8. Fritillaria grandiflora

[Maggi Young]

Has anyone got any Frits still flowering or are they all finished for this year? ( Northern Hemisphere obviously )

Not too many around here, Ron, if the two entries received so far for the Frit. class at the Aberdeen show is anything to go by....   


 Oleg,  your garden is blooming well now....  we have had very cold and bad  weather recently... it is like winter again. 

[olegKon]

Some more well nown frits: orientalis, ionica, 2 acmopetalas, pyrenaica, messanensis gracilis, pallidiflora.
It's awful to have vinter returned, Maggi. Here after winter we are having real sunner of 20-25C

[Jan]

Fritillaria ussuriensis North KOrea

[Lesley Cox]

Goodness Oleg, it's a great fritillaria time for you! So many and all looking healthy and at home in your garden instead of in pots.

Nothing in flower here but a few are coming through already, both alburyana and the tiny veined one beginning with "d" as well as some early pontica, affinis and recurva. Recent rain has brought on the latter. (The first two are always up in the autumn). Bitter cold rain and sleet today.

[olegKon]

Thanks, Lesley. Hope to enjoy the pics of your frits when we have dull autumn here.

[ronm]

Wonderfully grown Fritillaria Oleg. A fantastic collection all looking so healthy and strong.

All gone here with the exception of masses of F.camshatcensis. I seem to remember seeing a 'burgundy' form years ago. I thought the picture was on this site but I can't find it so must be wrong. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Thanks again Oleg, super pictures. Just goes to show that the most interesting plants are not always the rarest ones. These are perfect.

F.ussuriensis 'N. Korea', very interesting Jan. Striking . More than likely another very good candidate to grow in the garden. Grown by the thousand in China as its another of the 'medicinal' Frits.

[olegKon]

For those who do not consider fritillarias out of time at the end of May
1,2 Fritillaria pontica
3. Another colour pattern with Fritillaria acmopetala
4. Fritillaria thessala
5. Fritillaria kamtchatcensis
6. Fritillaria involucrata

[Gerry Webster]

Oleg - a very nice collection. I have never seen F. thessala with that colour, do you know where it came from?