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Fritillaria Imperialis
Over the Easter Hols, I visited the RHS gardens at Harlow Carr,
Harrogate and fell in love... with fritillaria imperialis! I don't ever recall seeing this plant before and I was really taken with its stature and beautiful flowers - the hunt's on now to find bulbs! |
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Glenda Young wrote: Over the Easter Hols, I visited the RHS gardens at Harlow Carr, Harrogate and fell in love... with fritillaria imperialis! I don't ever recall seeing this plant before and I was really taken with its stature and beautiful flowers - the hunt's on now to find bulbs! Wait until early autumn. They are available from August onwards. The bulbs are not cheap (especially lutea, the yellow one), but are worth it. They like to be planted deep (6" down at the top) and to be able to get at water in their growing season. They don't mind a fair amount of shade. If they like the conditions, they will self-seed, and a FEW of the seedlings will establish themselves. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Glenda wrote in message ... Over the Easter Hols, I visited the RHS gardens at Harlow Carr, Harrogate and fell in love... with fritillaria imperialis! I don't ever recall seeing this plant before and I was really taken with its stature and beautiful flowers - the hunt's on now to find bulbs! Yes beautiful flowers, unfortunately they are also the favourite of Lily Beetle which did for ours, including Lutea, despite my constant attempts at control which works for our lilies. So if you have that pest in your area watch out, they'll get eaten off before you know they are growing. Oh, and they also smell of foxes, strongly! :-) -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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"Sue & Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Glenda wrote in message ... Over the Easter Hols, I visited the RHS gardens at Harlow Carr, Harrogate and fell in love... with fritillaria imperialis! I don't ever recall seeing this plant before and I was really taken with its stature and beautiful flowers - the hunt's on now to find bulbs! Oh, and they also smell of foxes, strongly! :-) Lots of the bulb catalogues do them. I am sitting here having grown them for the first time this year and feeling miffed - I ordered 'Rubra', the red one and they have all come up orange :-( Yes I agree about the smell. Even the bulbs reek. I've never actually smelt a fox but I'll know what one smells like if I ever have the pleasure of meeting one. The bulbs are planted about 5m away from our summerhouse and even the slightest breeze wafts the musty, oniony, foxy smell all over the place. Still it proves that we've had success! --A |
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For the last fifteen years I have grown three varieties of Fritillaria
imperialis in my garden, 'Rubra', 'Lutea' and 'Aurora' with limited flowering success. I remember that the first five years were fine, but from then onwards flowering became a rarity. At the time of planting, I followed planting instructions to the letter. They have never been dug up and moved to a new location as I understand that crown imperials should be left undisturbed. This year I have just one in flower at the moment, an 'Aurora'. What could be wrong with them? Any thoughts to the group on the subject would be most welcome. Bill Brewer ----------------------------- "Nick Maclaren" wrote in a message: Wait until early autumn. They are available from August onwards. The bulbs are not cheap (especially lutea, the yellow one), but are worth it. They like to be planted deep (6" down at the top) and to be able to get at water in their growing season. They don't mind a fair amount of shade. If they like the conditions, they will self-seed, and a FEW of the seedlings will establish themselves. |
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"Glenda wrote in message ...
Over the Easter Hols, I visited the RHS gardens at Harlow Carr, Harrogate and fell in love... with fritillaria imperialis! I don't ever recall seeing this plant before and I was really taken with its stature and beautiful flowers - the hunt's on now to find bulbs! Yes beautiful flowers, unfortunately they are also the favourite of Lily Beetle which did for ours, including Lutea, despite my constant attempts at control which works for our lilies. So if you have that pest in your area watch out, they'll get eaten off before you know they are growing. Oh, and they also smell of foxes, strongly! :-) Thanks for the comments folks. I'm not quite sure what foxes smell like but if I get some bulbs, it looks like I'll find out!! I just hope they smell awful enough to stop the squirrels digging them up and eating them. |
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:11:05 +0100, Bill Brewer wrote:
For the last fifteen years I have grown three varieties of Fritillaria imperialis in my garden, 'Rubra', 'Lutea' and 'Aurora' with limited flowering success. I remember that the first five years were fine, but from then onwards flowering became a rarity. At the time of planting, I followed planting instructions to the letter. They have never been dug up and moved to a new location as I understand that crown imperials should be left undisturbed. This year I have just one in flower at the moment, an 'Aurora'. What could be wrong with them? Any thoughts to the group on the subject would be most welcome. Feed the brutes. They are potassium lovers, I have been told. But don't try to bulk them up all at once with one mighty dose of fertilizer. Two or three years of regular light feedings is a better idea. I've been giving my own garden a fall feeding the last two years. Lots of things responded the first spring after such a feeding, but other plants have taken a second year to show the results. I notice, in particular, that the species tulips took longer than the daffodils. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
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