An Iranian species known as the “Caspian Bluebell”. Early flowering with delightful soft violet-blue flowers with deflexed segments, similar to a blue erythronium. Recently moved from genus Scilla to Fessa
A handsome frit for a dry spot in the garden. Nodding bells in green and maroon with recurved tips on tall stems. An attractive species and a good starter for beginners.
A handsome frit for a dry spot in the garden. Nodding bells in green and maroon with recurved tips on tall stems. An attractive species and a good starter for beginners.
An excellent tall Amercian species and an easy one for beginners. Good natured and easy flowering with broad heavily chequered dark blooms flecked with golden yellow. Handsome whorled leaves.
A very graceful and beautiful species from the spiky oak forests of eastern Turkey. Elegant, glaucous-green flowers with narrow, blue-green scattered leaves along its tall stems. Sharply winged seed capsules extends the delight.
Tall growing species from eastern Turkey bearing large, pale green, square-shouldered bells. Outer petals faintly tessellated reddish while the inner ones are marked deep reddish-purple along the fascia. Rare offering
Small bulbs
Close to F. rhodokanakis and once thought to be a hybrid of it. From abandoned olive groves on the island of Poros near the Peloponnese. Early, large bells of reddish-brown, stippled in green and gold.
Close to F. rhodokanakis and once thought to be a hybrid of it. From abandoned olive groves on the island of Poros near the Peloponnese. Early, large bells of reddish-brown, stippled in green and gold.
One to 5 bell shaped flowers nod near the top of the stem. Opening wide they reveal greenish brown with yellow, or yellowish red markings on pointed petals and large yellow stamen.
Glaucous, yellow-green bells, with yellow interiors which turn into wonderfully winged seed capsules flushed with pink, green and fawn. Native to Western Turkey but also present on some of the Greek islands of the Eastern Aegean.
An extremely rare plant from the SW flank of the Greek Peloponnese. Gorgeously crisp, large, yellow bells on 25cm stems with bright green foliage. An lovely treasure and what’s more its easy! Spring Flowering
An extremely rare plant from the SW flank of the Greek Peloponnese. Gorgeously crisp, large, yellow bells on 25cm stems with bright green foliage. An lovely treasure and what’s more its easy! Spring Flowering
Another Greek endemic found only on the very end of the middle ‘prong’ of the southern Peleponnese. Deep chocolate bells, sometimes with a soft darker chequering over bright green shiny leaves.
Broad, dark chocolate bells, barely chequered, over shiny, green foliage. Variable in height and easy in the dry garden. An exquisite endemic collected at Porto Kagio in the Mani, Greece.
Lime-tinged, yellow bells. Near F. carica, with which it grows, but taller, at 20cm. or so, and with narrow, linear, bright-green leaves. Endemic to the extreme south western region of Turkey, near to and on the Marmaris Peninsula. A very rare offering.
Grown from seed collections on Mt Parnitha, the type locality for this variety. Longer bells of glistening brown boldly marked with broad peppermint green stripes. The archetypal Greek fritillary
A surprisingly easy American species (I wish there were more!). Closely related to F. biflora, shiny green leaves and shiny purple brown bells with a white blotch on each petal.
The variable fritillaries of the Iberian peninsula are all placed under this name These are from collections made in Sierra de Cazorla, Andalucia and have wide bells, flaring at their mouths, in shades of chestnut and gold, striped and chequered with maroon, tall stems.
Very elegant, urn-shaped flowers chequered green and reddish-brown on tall stems. These are a combination of the Cretan race originally collected as seed on the foothills of Mt. Kedros, near Spili, and others collected from Mount Olympus in Central Greece
Broad, yellow to greenish-yellow bells, lightly flecked with black and reddish brown with winged seed heads as an added bonus. Tall American species closely related to the highly variable F. affinis
