Trillium 2015

[Herman Mylemans]

Very nice Dave!

[t00lie]

Very nice Dave!

Thank you Herman.

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[Herman Mylemans]

Beautiful Dave!
Are that all hybrids. It seems to me that you have a very big garden.
Here I am waiting for the seeds from Trillium-L.

[Leena]

Wonderful trillium garden, Dave.

[t00lie]

Wonderful trillium garden, Dave.

Thanks Leena .

Beautiful Dave!
Are that all hybrids. It seems to me that you have a very big garden.
Here I am waiting for the seeds from Trillium-L.

Hello Herman
Thank you as well.
It's just a small garden however heavily planted ....

The 2nd photo above ,(sr2), is a clump of T. chloropetalum .

The others are seedlings and as I grow quite a number of 'compatible' species close together I suspect they may have some hybrid blood in them.

My Trillium-L seeds arrived this morning and have been sown including some of the seeds you donated ! 

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A yummy coloured Trillium raised from 'home' T. erectum seed.

T. chloropetalum with a white base .I've seen references that suggest plants like these when found in the wild are hybrids with T albidum.....

T. ludovicianum .

A division I took last year at this time of T. grandiflorum ,flowering in one of the new 'lawn' beds.

Cheers Dave.

[Herman Mylemans]

Lovely pictures Dave. The post to New Zealand is faster then the post to Belgium. I am still waiting for seeds.

[Maggi Young]

Lovely pictures Dave. The post to New Zealand is faster then the post to Belgium. I am still waiting for seeds.

 Must be uphill all the way to Belgium....   

[t00lie]

Trillium's still going strong .Pics taken this arvo.

Trillium chloropetalum view.

Trillium erectum --either colour breaks or hybrids.

The last last two pics show a plant that I received with stems ,(both flowering ),in 2013 or 2012.It has currently 9 flowering stems so has increased very well ...

[t00lie]

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Trillium erectum luteum clumps.

Various coloured T.sulcatum as well as T. flexipes.

T. sulcatum red .

Trillium grandiflorum 'Floro Pleno ' clumps.

[Leena]

How lovely colours! My favourite view was the one with yellow Trillium (what was that?) in the front, but also picotee edge pinks  are wonderful.

I have been wondering why my Trilliums don't develop seed pods at all (T.chloropetalum, kurabayashii, luteum and grandiflorum). They are young plants, most planted only two or three years ago, but they have flowered well, and there hasn't been frost at the flowering time, not at least last spring there wasn't. Perhaps I would need to have several plants for them to cross pollinate? Or is it just a matter of maturity, and once they are mature enough I will get seeds from my own plants?

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium's still going strong .Pics taken this arvo.

Dave very beautiful pictures. It seems to me that you have good soil for Trilliums! They look very healthy.
At this moment I don't have the Trillium seeds yet. A week ago they were in  a customhouse in Belgium, they asked me for an invoice. I said to them it is exchanging, I hope I will get them next week, another person in Belgium had no problems.

[Herman Mylemans]

How lovely colours! My favourite view was the one with yellow Trillium (what was that?) in the front, but also picotee edge pinks  are wonderful.

I have been wondering why my Trilliums don't develop seed pods at all (T.chloropetalum, kurabayashii, luteum and grandiflorum). They are young plants, most planted only two or three years ago, but they have flowered well, and there hasn't been frost at the flowering time, not at least last spring there wasn't. Perhaps I would need to have several plants for them to cross pollinate? Or is it just a matter of maturity, and once they are mature enough I will get seeds from my own plants?

Leena, here the seed setting was less then previous year, probably because of dryness.

[Leena]

I hope it is also the circumstances why mine haven't set seeds so far.
Trilliums are so lovely plants and that's why I would like to grow more of them and hope to get fresh seeds from my own plants someday.

[t00lie]

How lovely colours! My favourite view was the one with yellow Trillium (what was that?) in the front, but also picotee edge pinks  are wonderful.

Thank you  Leena
I've gone back above and named my pictures as best I could .
The difficulty in identifying some is that they could either be just colour breaks of a species or in fact hybrids ......

Dave very beautiful pictures. It seems to me that you have good soil for Trilliums! They look very healthy.
At this moment I don't have the Trillium seeds yet. A week ago they were in  a customhouse in Belgium, they asked me for an invoice. I said to them it is exchanging, I hope I will get them next week, another person in Belgium had no problems.

Thank you Herman
You only see the healthy ones buddy .......   

While it was a 'normal' seed set in our local area last season with heaps of seed harvested I understand other areas of NZ were affected by the dry conditions .As an aside although I've never 'played around' I've been advised hand pollinating increases the volume of seed set ......

[t00lie]

Trillium stamineum in the garden yesterday.