@EmmaH2022 I urge you, do get Powers of attorney set up ASAP for health and finances, if your Mother has a diagnosis of Alzheimer's / dementia, it is too late. 😕 As for advice, I find the Alheimer's society forum on their website most useful.
I kept on encouraging DP to set up these for MIL but it fell on deaf ears until it was too late; she was reticent anyway as she believes he will steal all her money. It is starting to be problematic. At least her GP surgery knows me and I can talk to her Doctor(s) which helps, but we have explained to her that if hospitalised, we cannot make decisions for her.
Regarding these fritillaries, disappearing is why I learnt to grow them in pots! 🤩 I love the unusual markings on them.
In the wild in the UK this variety grows in grazed water-meadows that flood in the winter (I think Wiltshire is the only documented place with an extant population in the wild now) so it is quite tricky to get the right place!
I did have a couple of crown imperials (F. Imperialis) here in pots in Scotland, but the cold got them, and grew F persica (the tall dusky black multiflowered one) and F michaelovskyi (small purple/maroon bells with yellow lips) in pots in my garden in England successfully.
Can you ask annoying cousin to text less (once a week?)as you are v.v. busy with yr. health, mother and family? I hate this sort of thing! 🙄😖