Monty Don has these and I think humming birds are attracted but we don’t have those birds in the U.K. Very striking plant but U.K. put off by the musty foxy smell now.
They are so striking - I'm always tempted to get some bulbs for pots. But I think they, like other fritillarias, attract lily beetles and I don't want to invite those little b*****s into the garden before I'm ready to do my twice daily lily beetle patrols once the lilies start coming up.
I inherited a marvellous clump of vermillion Crown Imperials in a former garden ... they definitely smell of foxes (not cannabis, that's a different smell ... I was an art student and I know these things 🦉) Sadly I've not been able to keep them happy in any garden since
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I inherited a marvellous clump of vermillion Crown Imperials in a former garden ... they definitely smell of foxes (not cannabis, that's a different smell ... I was an art student and I know these things 🦉)
I inherited a marvellous clump of vermillion Crown Imperials in a former garden ... they definitely smell of foxes (not cannabis, that's a different smell ... I was an art student and I know these things 🦉) Sadly I've not been able to keep them happy in any garden since
we must compare notes
No-one knows if you have done your house-work, but everyone knows is you haven't done your gardening
Hmm your neighbours must be smoking some acrid stuff then … East Anglian cannabis is musky, but much mellower than the sharper notes of foxes and Crown Imperial … and there were all three on our property one weekend back in the day … or perhaps I should’ve become a perfumer rather than a painter 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I guess the one you saw was discarded from a garden at some point
Sadly I've not been able to keep them happy in any garden since
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
… East Anglian cannabis is musky, but much mellower than the sharper notes of foxes and Crown Imperial … and there were all three on our property one weekend back in the day … or perhaps I should’ve become a perfumer rather than a painter 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.