Bulbs: fritillarias start blooming, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
F. thunbergii is beauty! I love the delicate colours and pattern showing through the petals, they remind me of Tiffany lamps without gaud.

My F graeca disappeared last year, this year it's growing several new stems as though it has split, it's still in a pot in the greenhouse. Another in a pot hadn't moved last I looked, I don't remember it's name as it disappeared last year too!

I grew F. persica from seed, had around 10 but I left the pot out over winter, 5 have regrown, of course still very small.

I had one F. meleagris grow at the top of the bank under the tree edge one year, it flowered and never returned, haven't a clue how it got there. I think they grow well in grass, I believe I read that somewhere.

My F imperialis rubra, first year, grown in the greenhouse. K, yours might have flowers yet, mine looked much like that for a start.

Took this yesterday, 2 of the 4 flowers had opened and they are huge! See those white blobs at the top? Shake the flower and they wobble! They are liquid drops hanging like eggs, and quite large. I wonder if it has to do with pollination, perhaps it's a nectar to attract insects which have to brush past the pollen.