Snake's head fritilliary

elliedaisy

Can I move snake's head fritillary now, they have died right back to the ground. They have flowered beautifully but are hidden away where they can't be seen. 

Helix

Probably ok, tho’ leaving a bit longer could be better.  But if that risks forgetting then do it now.  There’s a right time to do things in the garden and then there’s the time when one feels like doing that particular job and have the time and the tools to hand... I have the later approach to gardening!

Posy

They also seed very freely so you can collect the ripe seed and just chuck it about where you want them.

elliedaisy

Wow thank you 

cornelly

Since we stopped mowing the top end of our garden until late July, the fritillaries have spread through the seed dispersing and now give a fair bed of both white and purple/red, it is twice the bed now through the spring.

elliedaisy

Thank you, they are lovely and not quite like anything else at that time of the year.

Stephanie newish gardener

Whilst weeding the other day I inadvertently lifted some of my fritillary bulbs, so I rummaged around and lifted the lot and am now considering what's best to do with them. We get pheasants and they just peck the flowers off so I've been thinking I might put them in a pot somewhere the pesky birds can't get them. 

So do I spread them out and keep them dry till autumn or will they be ok to go into a pot now? If in a pot then do I keep it moist or not yet? Also any thoughts on a nice small plant that would work in the same pot until the spring? This is Aberdeenshire....

elliedaisy

That is a good question, I don't know the advice about moving bulbs. Hope someone knows the answer

treehugger80

i would get them in the ground (or pot) as soon as possible, they really don't like being dried out as they're technically a water meadow species so like being damp to wet