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 ...

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 ...

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 ...