Wednesday, April 26, 2006

snakeshead fritilliary




wow nature

8 comments:

Wildside Musing said...

WOW -- Is that flower as BIG as it looks?! (I've only seen tiny little ones that look like this before...)

Madcap said...

That first picture looks just like the one in my bulb catalogue! Really beautiful, Claire!

grannyfiddler said...

i have little pale yellow frittilaries in my garden... just up and starting to make buds. they're the only ones tough enough to overwinter here. i've heard that the bigger ones have a rather nasty smell...? or have i got them confused with something else.

they look lovely, anyway.

Lowa said...

I have never seen anything like that before! Very interesting.

I love to pop in and see what is new here:)

Sigruns German Garden said...

Claire, I loke all my fritillarias very much. Now the thime, they flower, is just over!

Sigrun

clairesgarden said...

Wildside, it may have a larger flower than a wild one as it is from the Rock Garden Society and they tend to have cultivated show stock, I did buy some other ones but htey haven't come up.
Madcapmum, its nice when they come out looking like it says on the packet!!
Grannyfiddler, I haven't noticed a smell off them, the ones that havent come up are meant to be a pale green and a plain red, maybe they aren't hardy enough for here,
Lowa, I love its patterns, fascinating, it is native here but not very common.
Sigrun, your spring season must be warmer than here, but did you not have snow recently?

Norene Griffin said...

quite an extraordinary flower! too bad about the lost bee photo.

clairesgarden said...

Norene, I am going to lie in wait! I just missed another one going into lots of flowers on the hellebore!