Fritillaria 2012

[fredg]

Fred,
Send some of your plants here.... lots of mice around here in Aus at present after all the rains.

Better if you send me your rain Paul.
Such a pity that camels don't eat mice really 


One new Fritillaria from me for today

Fritillaria hermonis amana

[Paul T]

Fred,

Yes, but if camels ate mice then what else would they eat??    I'm thinking that carnivorous camels would be pretty damn scary.

Our rain has been nice, after so many years of drought.  So much flooding about the country at the moment though.  That is the nature of Australia though.... droughts and flooding rains!

[Janis Ruksans]

A few updates 

1 & 2 Fritillaria bucharica this just gets better and better 
3.& 4 Fritillaria raddeana
5      Fritillaria michailovskyi
6      Fritillaria uva-vulpis, these were supplied as Fritillaria graeca   that is very annoying.

Fred,
Have you white raddeana or it is color mistake on picture (sorry, I'm rarely checking other pages than crocuses as it is not easy for me to type with right hand).
Janis

[fredg]

Fred,
Have you white raddeana or it is color mistake on picture (sorry, I'm rarely checking other pages than crocuses as it is not easy for me to type with right hand).
Janis

Janis,
I don't have a white F. raddeana and there is no colour mistake on the picture.
If you see those flowers as white I suggest you adjust your monitor.

[Janis Ruksans]

It is my laptop in Greece. So I suppose in home all will be OK.
Janis

[fredg]

I hope so, they're definitely cream with green veins to me 

[bulborum]

Here Fritillaria stenanthera starts flowering

Roland

[art600]

Fred,
Have you white raddeana or it is color mistake on picture (sorry, I'm rarely checking other pages than crocuses as it is not easy for me to type with right hand).
Janis

Janis,
I don't have a white F. raddeana and there is no colour mistake on the picture.
If you see those flowers as white I suggest you adjust your monitor.

Fred
The first two pictures appear white and the others yellow.

[Paul T]

Roland,

 

What a pot full.  Not a species I've ever grown.  So beautiful.

[bulborum]

I hope to have seeds Paul
first time it is flowering here

R

[Paul T]

So these are seed grown as well then?  How long to flowering?

[bulborum]

five years

I got them from a friend
you can see all the different colours
if they where bulb grown
they would all have the same colour

R

[Paul T]

Roland,

I wasn't sure if it was just light differences or there really were differences in colour.  Really excellent result.  Well done.

[Tony Willis]

Fritillaria crassifolia from Hosap

Fritillaria obliqua from Pilous

[ronm]

What superb F.stenanthera Roland. Congratulations on getting them to perform this well,  .

A lovely pair Tony,  .  Something classy about the F.crassifolia in particular.  It's amazing the differences in flowering times between the forms of this species. Five seperate months could see F.crassifolia flowering in the same collection!
Do you dry your F.obliqua through summer or keep on the moister side?