IT IS ONE of the UK’s rarest wildflowers but fortunately the beautiful Snakeshead Fritillary is also one of the easier to grow bulbs for the garden. Its thin leaved stems are topped in spring by ...

A Gulf Fritillary caterpillar munchs on a passion vine bush at the Slidell Library Herb Garden on Saturday September 29, 2007. The passion vine is host plant for the Fritillary which means the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The current season’s crop of bulb catalogs showed up right on time not long after the first of the year. The bulbs themselves were not so punctual. They were ...

The strange and beautiful flowers of Fritillaria meleagris have enthralled us for centuries as the name itself shows. The chequered pattern of the purple, pink or sometimes white flowers gave them the ...