Trillium 2019

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium viridescens

[kris]

Such a beauty Herman. I can only dream of growing any Trillium this big!!
I finally got a single plant of Trillium grandiflorum and planting close to the foundation wall helped to get two small branches and two buds.

[Mariette]

Trillium viridescens

Grown in beautyful company! And the lush clumps of double forms of Trillium grandiflorum are wonderful , too!

[Leena]

Herman, you have such good looking big clumps of Trilliums!
Do you feed them or what is your soil like?

[Herman Mylemans]

Herman, you have such good looking big clumps of Trilliums!
Do you feed them or what is your soil like?

Leena, the soil contains some clay and a lot of humus. In March and September I give them garden potash from DCM and in May some organic fertilizer for garden flowers.

[Steve Garvie]

Trillium undulatum -pot grown as it needs very acidic, free-draining sandy soil. Despite being a small Trillium species it produces deep searching roots. Not hard to grow if given the above conditions. Watering is with rainwater to which 10mls Cider vinegar per litre is added about every 3rd watering. Prone to snail attacks (the new shoot of this plant was nibbled as it “broke cover” -hence the slight deformity to the leaftips.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium undulatum -pot grown as it needs very acidic, free-draining sandy soil. Despite being a small Trillium species it produces deep searching roots. Not hard to grow if given the above conditions. Watering is with rainwater to which 10mls Cider vinegar per litre is added about every 3rd watering. Prone to snail attacks (the new shoot of this plant was nibbled as it “broke cover” -hence the slight deformity to the leaftips.

Steve, Your Trillium undulatum is doing very well! Congratulations!

[Steve Garvie]

Thanks Herman.
It produced seed last year when I self-pollinated it. I sowed the seed immediately but I don’t suppose I will see any seedlings for another year, if at all.

[GordonT]

Wonderful undulatum, Steve, and congratulations on growing it so well! I doubt this is even above ground yet, here in Nova Scotia.

[GordonT]

Trillium season has finally begun for me. Last year, I received two new plants from a friend in Victoria BC , and they have both settled into the garden.  Of the two, I am particularly happy with what was sent to me as Trillium kurabayashii (I still have to examine the floral parts to confirm identification). The other newcomer was Trillium ovatum. It will take another year to adjust to the garden here (first flowering was very small).



The other Trilliums are taking their time this year. This past winter has mixed up the bloom sequence in the garden. Up until this year, Trillium cuneatum has been in bloom, before Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex, but it looks as if the Bloodroot will be done, before the trillium buds open.

[Steve Garvie]

Trillium decumbens

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium season has finally begun for me. Last year, I received two new plants from a friend in Victoria BC , and they have both settled into the garden.  Of the two, I am particularly happy with what was sent to me as Trillium kurabayashii (I still have to examine the floral parts to confirm identification). The other newcomer was Trillium ovatum. It will take another year to adjust to the garden here (first flowering was very small).

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Gordon, I doubt that  it is kurabayashii. The petals should be oblanceolate and widest about the middle.

[Leena]

I have protected some of my biggest Trilliums with fleece in the frosty nights, and they keep on flowering well.
The first is T.chloropetalum giganteum 'Album' ,and in the second picture there is a clump of my seed grown T.chloropetalum (seeds from Dryad 2013), flowering for the first time. I'm wondering if I dare divide them now when they flower?

[Leena]

Trillium kurabayashii (if it is true, I don't know) has been flowering for a month now.
Very small T.sessile opened a week ago and T.luteum just last week.

[Herman Mylemans]

Leena, beautiful Trilliums in a natural environment.