#fritillaria

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 30 April 2026

A dramatic bulb for a spring display, Fritillaria imperialis 'Rubra Maxima' (crown imperial) grows well in most fertile, well-drained soils. It is an imbricated bulb (made up of scales) and so can be fragile and should be planted at four times the bulb’s depth, this helps to support the flower stem. The umbels of nodding, orange-red flowers have large stores of nectar in droplets.

Jill Raggett

[fragrantblossoms]

Karl Blossfeldt: Snake's head fritillary (Fritillaria), flower bud and flower from below, 1895/1930

[5-and-a-half-acres]

Fritillaria meleagris

[stanford-photography]

Golden Hour Fritillary By Jeff Stanford, 2026 Buy prints of this image at: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/golden-hour-fritillary-jeff-stanford.html   or more of my images at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Fritillaria at the Keukenhof, 2026

[thelethalsilence]

Fritillaria purdyi Wine country Spring 2025

[alessandro-accebbi]

by Debi Shapiro

"There is a music in the flow of things." ~Confucius

(*This flower is a Fritillaria persica, commonly known as the Persian Lily. It belongs to the Liliaceae family and is a bulbous plant native to western Asia. The variety pictured, with its characteristic greenish-white drooping flowers, is known as 'Ivory Bells'.)

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