Snakes head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) top tip

Lilith Durham, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Aug 29, 2001

i've just bought some of these bulbs and when looking for some info found a top tip on the bbc.co.uk/gardening site.
When you do grow them from bulbs there's a good way to get more plants out of your bulbs: lift the bulb out of the ground and score a little cross on the bottom. Put that in upside down and it'll produce four or five little plantlets where you've scored and crossed - so you'll get five little plants from every single bulb. i'll be trying this one!

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mark Antrim, Northern Ire, United Kingdom(Zone 8b) Aug 30, 2001

Lilith, dont do it on all because this sets the bulbs back and they wont all flower. instead they put their energy into making bulbils instead of flowers. it will be about 3 years before the bulbils come of age to flower.

Mark

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Aug 31, 2001

I read that somewhere too Lil,was curious'
I've never done it though.Thanks Mark,now
I know I won't''' Sis'

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Lilith Durham, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Sep 01, 2001

thanks for the warning mark - i'm glad you replied so quick, i was going to do it this weekend! do you know how long they take to spread?

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mark Antrim, Northern Ire, United Kingdom(Zone 8b) Sep 04, 2001

from seed they get to flowering size in about 3 years which is about the same as forcing the bulb to make bulbils. are the bulbs cheap over there? we get 10 for about a $1.50

Mark

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Lilith Durham, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Sep 05, 2001

i got 10 for 80p in the market in durham.. thought that was a great deal! they didn't have many left so i'll try next saturday.

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