Fritillaria biflora "grayana"
Antennaria@aol.com (Thu, 12 May 2005 20:35:07 PDT)

Jane McGary janemcgary@earthlink.net wrote:

Hi Jane et al,

In the past 5-6 years, I've used extra measures to label plants. All plants,
particularly bulbs, get labelled with the original label + 2 of my own labels
both in front of and in back of the bulb grouping. Bulbs from you were
planted out in a new "tree ring", a 5' circle around a tree, where I underplant
with choice bulbs. The only Frits in this area, I grow from your material....
both labels indicate Fritillaria biflora "grayana" 10 bulbs, 2002 (indeed there
are 10 plants growing); growing next to it are Frit. crassifolia kurdica
(also 10 bulbs) which flowers beautifully and is pictured on my web pages, and F.
bythinica (3 bulbs, planted 2003), and a number of Crocus species. Long and
short of it, in this case, I don't think I mixed up anything... the bulbs are
planted and labelled as they came in the shipment. So, if these are a F.
thessala form, they are nice and I'm happy to have them... I'd just like to apply
the correct name to them. At the very least, I now know that they are
definitely not a Frit. biflora form, which I'm glad to be aware of.

Cheers,

Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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