Trillium 2020

[Mike Ireland]

Self sown Trillium kurabayashii seedlings flowering with mixed colours.
First picture shows original plants.

[Maggi Young]

Self sown Trillium kurabayashii seedlings flowering with mixed colours.
First picture shows original plants.

All looking very  well, Mike. Great to see the  variation in the  seedlings - something which always  interests  me.  Seems  there  are  only  a  few  with the  darkest  colour  of the  parent - but  it  also looks  like  those ones   have  less  well -marked leaves  than the  parent, is  that  right?  Quite  a  few  of the  others  have  maintained the  good  leaf  colours, I  see. So much to see  and  learn from  plants, isn't  there?

[Mike Ireland]

Maggie some seedlings in the past have had a lot of mixed shades & even bicolours.  I have noticed that the paler the colour the less pronounced the leaf markings are.
The original plants were grown from seed over 30 years ago & the seed came from Phil & Gwen Phillips's garden.  They also used to have pale pink seedlings appear.
Growing from seed is wonderful, you never know what might appear.
Photo of pink shades from 2009.

[ashley]

A lovely diversity Mike, and pristine. 
... your slugs must be better behaved than mine

[Herman Mylemans]

Beautiful Trilliums Mike! But I am not sure that they all are pure kurabayashii. Have you pictures of inside the flowers.
See http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14374.msg367487#msg367487

[Leena]

Leena, I don't think they are as hardy as erectum. Trillium erectum grows very well in our garden but hibbersonii doesn't. I would keep them in pot till they are flowering size and then put a part in the garden. If the pot is a small one then put the whole clump in a bigger pot. A few years ago I had a flower in the garden and later some seedlings but they vanished!

Thank you Herman, I will do what you wrote.

[Mike Ireland]

Beautiful Trilliums Mike! But I am not sure that they all are pure kurabayashii. Have you pictures of inside the flowers.
See http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14374.msg367487#msg367487

Herman thanks for the comment.  I will try & photograph the inside of the flower tomorrow & post the pictures.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Trillium pusillum has increased vegetatively every year and a couple of seedlings has now flowered too.
The original plant


Could this seedling be a hybrid?  The petals recurve and are wider than the mother plant.


...Claire

[Claire Cockcroft]

I like the pink stripes on a Trillium ovatum, just pollinated.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Here are a couple of clumps of Pseudotrillium rivale, one pink, and one with some striping on the leaves.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Yet another Pseudotrillium rivale, this one a seedling with purple flecks in the petals.

[Mike Ireland]

Beautiful Trilliums Mike! But I am not sure that they all are pure kurabayashii. Have you pictures of inside the flowers.
See http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14374.msg367487#msg367487

5 close up images inside the flowers.

[Leena]

Beautiful Trilliums, Claire. Pseudotrillium rivale has been difficult for me, it has died during winters twice when I have tried it.  Sadly I lost also seedlings from your seeds when I planted them outside. Now I have some which are from seed ex seeds from year ago, and I will try to grow them in pot.

T.nivale has been very hardy here. These are seedlings which were sown in 2016 and planted out last summer, and now they are going to flower for the first time.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Hello, Leena.  I'm sorry you lost the rivale seedlings.  It's interesting that RIVALE seeds around my garden with no problems, but I can't grow NIVALE.  It is a slug magnet.  Yours look lovely.
...Claire

[Leena]

Thank you Claire. Slugs are luckily not awake yet, because of cold nights. I use a lot of dry leaves for winter protection, so that could also give shelter to slugs but so far there hasn't been any damage. Knock on wood..