Trillium 2014

[jshields]

Another group of native Trillium sessile growing along the Monon Trail here in Westfield, Indiana.



These seem to look just a tad larger than most usually do.

Jim

[Thorkild Godsk]

Hello Robert.
I look forward to seeing pictures of Trillium albidum and Trillium angustipetalum. Thanks for the great pictures you send Lilium and Rhododendron.
Thorkild - DK

[Leena]

Trillium chloropetalum var giganteum 'Album' yesterday.

[ichristie]

hello Jim great pictures but your Trillium looks like Tr. recurvatum to me cheers Ian the Christie kind

[jshields]

hello Jim great pictures but your Trillium looks like Tr. recurvatum to me cheers Ian the Christie kind

Ian, now that you mention it, they look more like recurvatum to me, too.  I need to go back on the trail and take a closer look.  For now, I do agree with you -- probably recurvatum, with the "petiolate" leaves and sepals not visible.

Both sessile and recuvatum are native around here.  And I'm getting a bit forgetful....

Best,
Jim

[brianw]

What differentiates Trillium grandiflorum Wisconsin form/strain from other forms of this species? Both of these are available from different UK nurseries. I have only seen the "form", which seemed to be smaller in stature than other plants of this species I have grown. Is this a characteristic feature?

[Leena]

Leena, here too T. luteum emerges only after T. chloropetalum and others have almost finished.  Fingers crossed that yours is just waiting for the stage to clear

Leena I have the same experience as Ashley here luteum has only just come through while chlorapetalum is finishing and yes I have had some trillium tubers lie dormant in the past but this, if my memory is correct,  has occurred after they were moved

You were right! I noticed T.luteum coming up yesterday. I'm so happy about it, and it is good that it is later if we get late frosts some years. Not this year though, it is going to be +28C tomorrow.

[ashley]

Great news Leena - pics please if you can
Its scent may be more noticeable too in such warm weather.

[Leena]

I'll smell it when the flower opens, I hope it likes it here and grows well in the future.
Here it is now coming up, the plant in the background is Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign'.

[Leena]

T.luteum is now flowering. T.chloropetalum is still in flower and so is T.parviflorum bought last autumn from Dryad Nursery. I was expecting it to be smaller but it has a good size flower.
I planted T.grandiflorum two years ago and this spring it flowered for the first time. I was expecting it to have bigger flowers, I think they are smallest of all the Trilliums I have now, but it is still very cute. Maybe the flowers get bigger when the plant matures? Does it look like T.grandiflorum?

[brianw]

From first flowering to mature plant, Trillium can vary in stature by at least a factor of 2, often more: in my experience.

[Leena]

Thank you Brian.

[Thorkild Godsk]

Trillium From the garden.
Trillium viridescens
Trillium erectum
Trillium discolor
Trillium vaseyi
Trillium grandiflorum flora plena Bressingham
Thorkild - DK

[Leena]

The flowers of my T.grandiflorum have turned pink. Is this normal?

[johnralphcarpenter]

Yes, they turn pink as they age.