Trillium 2020

[Leena]

I have sowed this small Trillium from 2014 seed ex seeds as T.sessile and it is flowering now for the first time. This is like a mini version of T.chloropetalum (more than half the size), small but sturdy with thick leaves and thick petals.
The third picture is my bought T.sessile, which is even smaller plant and the leaves are quite thin, and flower is smaller when it opens.
What do you think? Are both these plants T.sessile?
The last picture is T.chloropetalum grown from Dryad bulbs seeds, and in the left there is T.chloropetalum grown from seed ex seeds.

[ashley]

Nice trilliums Leena.  Your third photo reminds me of luteum, but perhaps experts here will give a more informed opinion.

[Leena]

Thanks Ashley.

[Steve Garvie]

Trillium tennesseensis



Trillium decumbens -it’s like Disneyland for slugs and snails.



Trillium underwoodii

[Ian Y]

Steve you continue to WOW us with your stunning photographs and very interesting plants love these Trilliums........

[Steve Garvie]

Many thanks Ian!
I just wish I could grow them as well in the open garden as you and others do. 

[Diane Whitehead]

Look at those leaves!  Who needs flowers?

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium tennesseensis
Trillium decumbens -it’s like Disneyland for slugs and snails.
Trillium underwoodii

Beautiful Trilliums, Steve.
Here they have suffered a lot from dry wind? The ground is also very dry, the last month there has been too little rain.

[Leena]

I keep coming back to look at Steve's beautiful Trilliums, especially T.decumbens is so perfect (and the picture of it).

[Steve Garvie]

Many thanks Leena.
I grow decumbens, discolor, reliquum, tennesseensis and underwoodii in a cold frame which has a thermostatically controlled subsoil heating cable. They can tolerate the cold of most Scottish winters but strong wind and excessive winter wet is too much for them. Having said that Cyril grows decumbens on a raised bed in the open garden and his garden is colder than mine.

Trillium vaseyi -huge flowers, it’s a pity that they hang below the leaves.



Trillium flexipes -the flowers have a nice texture to them.

[Carolyn]

Great trilliums as always, Steve. I love the details of the veining on flexipes.

[Arum]

Steve. Not only are your Trilliums splendid but your labels are also very attractive and really add to their presentation.
Edna

[Steve Garvie]

That’s cos my writing is atrocious and illegible! 

Black plastic T labels are available on eBay. The labels are printed using a Brother label printer. I bought mine after watching an electrician (who did some re-wiring for us) use one to carefully label various wires and terminal boxes. The labels have resisted the worst of the Scottish weather so far but will probably become brittle due to the effects of UV light on plastic over time.

[Rick R.]

I always marvel at all of Steve's photographs.  Each one is a wonderful blend of composition and botanical detail.  These details are often important in identification, and for me, it is more often the intricacies in plants that excite me, and I find myself studying my plants as much through detailed photos as I do through physical observation.
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This year I am finding all kinds of trilium seedlings.  Not only ones that germinated last season and popping up for the first time now, but I am a little embarrassed to say there are a couple bunches from the year before that I hadn't noticed until now.  As you can see, even the second year seedlings are crowded.  I wonder if I could separate them in now, in year 3 or year 4?
T. sessile group   


T. cuneatum

[Leena]

I got seeds of T.cuneatum last autumn, and they haven't come up yet, but I'm looking forward to them. T.cuneatum looks so nice in pictures.

Here is T.chloropetalum var giganteum 'Album'.