Trillium 2010

[Guff]

Pusillum RoadRunner

[Diane Whitehead]

What makes it distinct?

[Roma]

I'm not sure if this is Trillium ovatum or a small form of grandiflorum.  It flowers early and is increasing in my garden.

[Lesley Cox]

That is a very beautiful plant of nivale Sharon. I'll bet someone starts calling it a hybrid with T. pusillum, with that wiggly edge to the petal.

[Guff]

No clue why it's named roadrunner, I believe I bought it from Garden Vision Epimediums. I don't have any other Pusillum, so I can't say what the difference is.

[Guff]

Erectum with white eye, and two tone on outside.

[kalle-k.dk]

I discovered that one of my Trillium smalli had a dark ovary, can it be the variety atropurpureocarpum?
It is the first time I have a flower in chloropetalum 'Ice Cream'

Karl Kristensen,
Denmark

[Guff]

Has anyone had more then two stems with Erectum from one plant? Just curious most I have seen is two, but with Grandiflorum they clump up.
Picture 1-2 Grandiflorum
Picture 3    Erectum

[TheOnionMan]

No clue why it's named roadrunner, I believe I bought it from Garden Vision Epimediums. I don't have any other Pusillum, so I can't say what the difference is.

Trillium pusillum 'Roadrunner' is a 2007 introduction from Joe Pye Weed's Garden of Siberian Iris hybridization fame; they're about 20 miles from where I live.  The proprietors are Marty Schafer and Jan Sacks, both keen plants people who have revolutionized the state of hybridization in Iris, but they grow and hybridize many other outstanding plants as well.  This Trillium selection, sold by Garden Vision Epimediums, was selected for its very fast spreading and propagation, unlike most forms of the species that are notoriously slow.  I added this to my garden last year, just 2 blooms this year, so I'm waiting for it to do some road running 

[Guff]

Mark, I couldn't find the catalog. Makes sense though "Roadrunner", mine has 10 leaves this year. Next spring lets see what it does............beep beep

[Lesley Cox]

Though my own plants are small, I'm pretty sure there are numerous plants among Trillium growers in New Zealand, of erectum with many stems and flowers, some really big clumps in fact.

[Michael J Campbell]

Trillium grandiflora,
Trillium decumbens.
Trillium decumbens foliage.

[Anthony Darby]

My Trillium grandiflorum is still in tight bud, but T. ovatum is well out, as seen by T. o. 'Roy Elliot'. I also have just one T. rivale 'Purple Heart' and my T. kurabayashii is flowering for the first time.

[bulborum]

Hello Anthony

I have the idea that the petals of my Trillium kurabayashii
are much longer as yours
or are they elongating later
here some pictures of mine

Roland

[Anthony Darby]

Hello Anthony

I have the idea that the petals of my Trillium kurabayashii
are much longer as yours
or are they elongating later
here some pictures of mine

Roland

Not sure Roland. This is the first time for me and they grow in the shade of an Acer dissectum. Yours look really stunning.