Trillium 2008

[Lesley Cox]

Try the crosses Rob. Nothing ventured.....but don't hold your breath.

[Maggi Young]

Our best pinks of T. grandifloum roseum are not out yet.

1)This is one of Ian's pink flushed seed raised variety....just a delicate flush of pink suffusing the flower

2) this is one of our largest grandiflora flowers.. really lives up to the name... the flower is about 12cms across 

[ashley]

Oh for such well-behaved slugs 

[Maggi Young]

maggi thats a amazing giant flower! my question is where can i get one lol!

also does anyone have a picture they can post for me of a seedling trillium (with cotyledons)
as i would like to be able to recongnise what they look like when they germinate

Rob, grow lots from seed and these special beauties will appear 
Ian will surely have such photos... try a search of the Bulb Log Index, at the top of the main Bulb Log page, meantime, and I'll ask him later to find such pix or make some for posting here or in a future Bulb Log.

[Diane Whitehead]

Rob,

Have a close look at your doubles.  Sometimes they produce pollen.  A
breeder of double primulas said that the last flower on a plant may be a
bit too tired to be completely double.  (I don't think she put it quite like that,
but that's the way I understood it.)

I got pollen from someone's double trillium ovatum that had been divided
the year before and was blooming as a single while it recuperated.

I used the pollen on one of my singles and one seedling was partly double.
 The next generation should produce some doubles.

[Maggi Young]

Good advice there, Diane.

Ian thinks he has the young Trillium photos you need, Rob, but he hasn't the time right now to find them, so watch this space!

[Diane Whitehead]

There are some pictures of newly-germinated seeds on Harold Holmes'
website:   http://www.trilliumresearch.org/

Also some older seedlings in
BULB LOG 14 --- 4th April 2007

and
BULB LOG 49 in 2004

[Maggi Young]

More great advice, Diane, you win tonight's Best Help Award! Thank you! 

[Michael J Campbell]

Here is a few pots of Trillium seedlings.

[ashley]

How long to flowering from that stage Michael?

[Michael J Campbell]

Three or four years , depending on how well you feed them. Usually three.

[Anthony Darby]

Several dealers were selling Trillium grandiflorum doubles ('Snowbunting'/fl.pl) at the Glasgow show. Three flowering stems for £12 was the best deal I saw.

[mark smyth]

please think of me next time

[Diane Clement]

I've been growing seedlings from Trillium grandiflorum Roseum for some years and today one opened for the first time.  Ron Beeston has a lovely clump of this pink form in his garden and kindly gave me some newly germinated seedlings in 2002, if my memory serves me correctly.

You will see that it's still pouring down here, as it has been almost non stop for 2 days. Typical Bank Holiday weather.

[Paul T]

What a lovely colour Diane.  Beautiful!!