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Snake head fritillaria
Hi, I am a very novice gardener. I love snake head fritillaries and was pleased to buy some this weekend. It gave me an idea, perhaps pie in the sky, that I would love to grow some to give away as wedding favours in April next year. I have had a look at many websites but still have some doubts that it would work. If I planted bulbs in september would I get flowers by the next Spring, or should I buy young plants? Could I grow them in small pots dug in to the soil, I only have a bordered yard. Could I grow them in containers?
Any advice, including "don't bother it's too hard", would be welcome!
thanks
Bree
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They're easy if they have enough moisture. Prediction of flowering dates is less easy.
In the sticks near Peterborough
They grow wild in a meadow near my old home - they are exquisite - if I had some there's no way I'd give them away, no matter how much I loved my wedding guests
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They grow here, in an area of grass and alder suckers, that gets inundated at some point during most winters, but not all. Quite sunny. dries out a lot in the summer after they've disappeared. Multiplying well.
In the sticks near Peterborough
They are tolerant of damp heavy clay judging by the specimens in my garden that few other bulbs would put up with, but spread slowly.
We have not had much success planting them in an orchard, even though it is wet where we are. Very wet. Could that be the problem? I have also heard they take a while to get established.
The meadows where I know them to grow are regularly flooded in the winter - I don't think it can be too wet for them
http://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/reserves/fox-fritillary-meadow
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ok. Interesting. I will persist and plant some more bulbs. Thank you.
My most successful establishment was from buying a a couple of pots cheap after they had flowered and planting those. The dried bulbs didn't do so well
In the sticks near Peterborough