Trillium 2021

[Diane Whitehead]

The erectums are rather droopy.

[Herman Mylemans]

The erectums are rather droopy.

Diane they are waiting for rain! It has been 16 days without rain and a lot of wind.

[Gabriela]

Hopefully you get some rain Herman; T. erectum is naturally droopy but it will suffer if too dry at flowering time.

Just a youngster which was purchasedso it will take time to increase.
Trillium recurvatum.

[kris]

Claire, Gabriella and Herman -lovely trilliums. Our weather is not good for trilliums. I have a few but still don't increase in size, They are closer to the house.My trillium kamtschaticum was coming up nicely with 2 buds but 4 days ago the cold weather made it droopy. I Hope it will recover.

[johnw]

Kris - I was reading in Fred Case's book on Trilliums that there is one American sp. that will tolerate repeated nightly hard freezes and pop right back.  Name escapes me but was long thought to be extinct.

john

[ruweiss]

Got the seeds for this plant 2010, it was collected at Vancouver Island
and am not quite sure about the true name

[Carolyn]

Rudi, your trillium looks a bit like T rivale to me, maybe a seedling of the ‘Purple Heart’ form. But this is not possible if it really WAS collected on Vancouver island. Rivale’s range is southern Oregon/Northern California. Hibbersonii is found on Vancouver Island. Could two packets of seeds have been muddled up?

[Carolyn]

Rudi,
I have just looked in Fred case’s Trillium book. He reckoned that hibbersonii is just a stunted form of ovatum (I think I read somewhere that it is now a species in its own right). Anyway, he says for hibbersonii « petals open clear pink, fading to white », so your lovely pink petals should fade to white.
For rivale he says that in fruit »the berry like capsule falls from the basal attachment without splitting ». I have noticed for hibbersonii in my garden that the berry falls and splits - have to be quick to gather seeds or the ants take them.
The shape of your petals fits rivale better than hibbersonii.

[ashley]

Also, hibbersonii leaves are sessile.  This looks like a nice Pseudotrillium rivale.

[Herman Mylemans]

Rudi, it is certainly Pseudotrillium rivale. Like Ashley said hibbersonii leaves are sessile.

Trillium flexipes starts to flower.


For the first time Trillium camschatcense 'Nemuro' in flower.

[ruweiss]

Carolyn, Ashley and Herman, thank you so much for your help in finding
the true name of my Trillium. I am glad to be in this forum with these experts.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Trillium flexipes



Trillium erectum



Trillium parviflorum

[Claire Cockcroft]

Hybrids of Trillium sulcatum and flexipes

[Herman Mylemans]

Claire, nice big Trilliums! The slugs don't find them!

[kris]

Claire very  impressive Trilliums. I love to grow them.We can't grow trillium as lush as yours.  Beautiful sight.