Fritillaria-2008

[Tony Willis]

Arthur,yes I have had plants from Chen yi very successfully but did not do frits.I wonder if a bee passed through my greenhouse and then garden.

[Boyed]

Armin,

during break time I went to measure the height of fritillaria sewerzowii. It was 47 cm tall, not 30 as I stated before just approximately.

[Armin]

Zhirair,
thanks for length confirmation
Please still show a picture of the fritillaria sewerzowii if you can.

[Maggi Young]

We grow various forms of Fritllaria sewerzowii, and have it under glass and outdoors. Here are some Bulb Log references for it:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/120308/log.html

http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2008/190308/log.html
Here are references from Len Rhind's latest Bulb Log Index!
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/index.pdf

Fritillaria sewerzowii 8/03 12/04 6/05 10/
05 12/05 9/06 10/06 12/06 29/
06 33/06 14/07 23/07 11/08 12/
08 13/08
bulbs 33/04 30/05 34/07
compact 10/05
'lilyflora' seedlings 11/03 12/
04 6/05
seed 30/05
shoots, various 5/04

[Maggi Young]

Roma..... is your Fritillaria  recurva flower open yet?
Roma is a terrific grower, who used to work at the Cruickshank Botanic Garden  ..... skilled in all sorts of plants; Cyclamen you name it, you will have seen Roma a and her Forrest Medal Winning plants in Sandy's show reports. The other evening at our local meeting, Roma told me that she was waiting for a bud to open on a Frit. recurva, from seed. Surprisingly to me, my friend had not grown this species from seed before. It is one of my favourite frits and I was pleased to hear that Roma was excited about a new flower, too!

[Armin]

Maggi, you are fabulous
Thanks for Bulb log reference (promotion )
Reminds me to look more often to the Bulb log

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, you are fabulous   
Thanks for Bulb log reference (promotion )
Reminds me to look more often to the Bulb log

My pleasure, Armin, there is much of interest there and I like to remind you all!
 I wonder if I could be paid for this work for Ian  chocolate, kisses, or both? 

[Roma]

Maggi,  the Fritillaria recurva isn't quite open yet but I can see it is the real thing.  From AGS seed sown in February 2005. I still get excited at the first flowering of something I haven't grown before especially if it is the true plant.

There you have bullied me into posting at last.

[Maggi Young]

Great news, Roma!  You are one of the best folks I know to hold up as an example of the joys of growing from seed, be it from an exchange , your own plants or from collected seed....but ME..... "bully".... surely not.... all it took was a gentle push in the right direction!! Bless You!! 

[art600]

Ref my reply 62 where I showed the aberrant flowers on a Frit michailovskyi, here is the reply from Leonid Bondarenko when I sent him the photos.

"I see the strange plant is F. michailowskyi. I have two clones with short multiflowered plants and tall ones having 1- rarely 3  flowers. I grow my fritillarias in open ground (not in pots). Because this method is exclusively benevolent for plants and often bulbs grown by me are unusual large size comparing with the same plants of my colleagues in UK. Probably the bulb was too large."

I have ordered some more Frit michailovskyi for this year - hope they are all the short beautifully coloured form. 

[Paul T]

Nice to michailovskyi.  Had it once years ago but lost it.  Must grow it from seed sometime to let it acclimate here from the start.  I find some of the Frits have troubles shifting into our climate from the cooler climes of Tasmania where the specialist growers are.  I do so like Frits!! 

Thanks to everyone for posting the wonderful pics of your glorious Frits.  Definitely many I have never seen in person before, nor likely to either!

[Lvandelft]

Ref my reply 62 where I showed the aberrant flowers on a Frit michailovskyi, here is the reply from Leonid Bondarenko when I sent him the photos.

"I see the strange plant is F. michailowskyi. I have two clones with short multiflowered plants and tall ones having 1- rarely 3  flowers. I grow my fritillarias in open ground (not in pots). Because this method is exclusively benevolent for plants and often bulbs grown by me are unusual large size comparing with the same plants of my colleagues in UK. Probably the bulb was too large."

I have ordered some more Frit michailovskyi for this year - hope they are all the short beautifully coloured form. 

Thank you Arthur.
But if there are two clones, it would be better this big one should get a name.
Everybody who wants F. michailowskyi, wants the short one, but if he gets the big one, he would not
be able to complain.

[art600]

Luit

The tall one is like no Frit michailovskyi I have ever seen in the wild.

I will grow the excellent short one in a pot and exile the tall one to the garden.

[Lesley Cox]

That's funny because ALL the F. michailovskyi I have (all from seed) are the short kind, never more than about 12cms at full maturity and I'd love to have some taller kinds. I have a little seed available now of my short one if anyone is interested.

[art600]

Lesley

When I return from my Iranian adventure, I will try to find my slides of michailovskyi in Turkey.  They were all at least 10 inches tall (25cm).  I have never seen short ones in the wild.

The horrible short multi-headed plants sold as michailovskyi are not at all typical of the wild population.