fritillarias start blooming

Susan,

They must be the Fritillaria uva-vulpis. Scroll a little up and look at the post of Toofewannimals of the 29 March!
Yours are perfectly healthy looking! That's how they are!

Hey thanks, that is so cool... I planted last year and they poped up this year... and the deer dont eat them..yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Thank you again so much...
Susan

Bonitin... here's acmopetala last April:
Don

involucrata:

pallidiflora:

camschatcensis:

pontica:

Don,

Thank you for sending these!
Very interesting drawings on the inside of the acmopetala and again these original subtle colour combinations of your involucrata.

Love that pallidiflora ! Looks like its being a tall one in the family.

.. and that Pontica is marvelous!

Pallidiflora is, indeed, tall; maybe 18 inches. acmopetala is a beauty, and easy (I can grow it).
Don

Nice to know that the acmopetala is easy to grow.
Does it get full sun with you ?

About half sun (all sun here would cook a snake).
Don

Thanks Don.

I've taken more pictures of my F. meleagris, the only one in the family I have.

Wallaby, perhaps yours has disappeared because it was getting to dry ? It grows in the wild in Europe in damp meadows and likes some shadow. It might grow very well in your lawn.

It sometimes grows two flowers on one flowerstalk

another angle of the same meleagris 'alba'

a view into its heart:

It may have been too dry bonitin, it was near the outer edge of the tree canopy but at the top of a slope. My soil dries out very quickly and we never get a lot of rain here.

Great pictures, Don.

I think F. acmopetala is the most graceful in curvature... like waking swans.

Young F. camschatcensis

F. michailovskyi 1

F. michailovskyi 2
This bulb has had as many as seven flowers on its stem. I left the seeds to mature on it last spring, so that set it back a bit.

The glaucus leaves of F. persica

Alley, here is my answer to your snowy F. pudica.
F. thunbergii

Last one.
(K. James)

Thanks James,
You really have an interesting collection!
Your persica's look so well certainly in comparison with my poor ones that are leaning to get more light.
Love specially that last picture of F. thunbergii.

This is how my poor F.persica look like

Speaking of meleagris, I have quite a few scattered about, but one bulb really has unusual flowers; they are very open, with thick, leathery substance and heavy patterning... here is that flower:

Compared to the usual, more bell-shaped, more light purplish-red flower:

Interesting zonedenial, although I prefer the more bell-shape of the other, that's one of the main charms of the Fritillarias

Agree, I much prefer the delicacy of the bells, but it's nice, in this case, to see the "snakeskin" without laying on your stomach!
Don

That's right !!
I often have to humble myself literally to the floor in order to make a good shot of a tiny beauty!

I am hopeful as I planted a bunch of Frits and I see all 8 of the Fritillaria - persica have broken ground. Patti

Is yours planted in the full sun bbrookrd ?
It sure looks healthy, but I also notice a tendency towards leaning. I am curious whether yours will make flowers.

One group is in full sun and another 3 are in part sun. I also have some Fritillaria raddeana and one has broken ground in full sun and the emerging head is a wonderful dark color. Hoping the others are coming to the party, though one of my dogs was digging in that area mid winter, so I may have lost the others. Now I just hope they bloom. They are all leaning, though less now, toward the south. Patti

Oh please, Patti, post us a picture of your Fritillaria raddeana, when it blooms, I would love to see it!

Bonitin, I like your positive thinking!
Here it is emerging. Still no signs of its mates. Patti

That sure looks very promising, Patti!

Some great fritillaries here! I love these but haven't had much success with them apart from meleagris which seeds around very happily. I have persica and thought I'd lost it but it reappeared this year but with no flower buds. But at least it's there and has healthy foliage. I'm trying pallidiflora for about the 3rd time and so far have kept this latest one in a pot.

This is a wonderful thread. Thanks everyone! I never knew some species' leaves could double as tendrils. Fascinating!

Looks like my pallidiflora will definitely have flowers very soon!

Wish I could say the same for my favourite white form of meleagris!

The culprit!