Trillium 2010

[Maggi Young]

Roland, I have been doing some "housekeeping" on the Forum and this may have resulted in the removal of some posts in a thread which has been closed.
Don't worry about it!
 

[Anthony Darby]

Poet's day, so I'm home early (actually have a very sore throat and can't stop coughing). Here are three flowering today. Two forms of Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum and T. pusillum.

[bulborum]

Very nice clump of Trillium pusillum
I am getting jealous
do you know the var.

Roland

[TheOnionMan]

Poet's day, so I'm home early (actually have a very sore throat and can't stop coughing). Here are three flowering today. Two forms of Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum and T. pusillum.

Nice ones Anthony; really like the many-flowered clump of T. pusillum.  Your two forms of T. grandiflorum roseum appear shorter than mine.  The first one looks like it has dark pigment in the leaves too.

[Anthony Darby]

I think the pusillum is the standard form. The first roseum is always dark, but refuses to increase vegetatively. It is the RBGE clone, which I've had since a single stemmed non-flowering offset. Both increase in height as the flowers open. The second clone is very variable, being darker some years.

[bulborum]

It comes I have a pusillum and a pusillum var. virginianum
I don't see the difference But yours is different as mine
Yours has smaller and longer leaves

Roland

[Anthony Darby]

I don't think my pusillum is one of the named regional vars. Here's my T. g. f. roseum in the sunshine (it grows in full sun).

[Otto Fauser]

Anthony , I've had the RBGE form of T. grandiflorum roseum for over 10 years ,it flowers regularly , but so far has only made 2 offsets .

[John Aipassa]

Just a few photos of kurabayashii in my garden. The photos date from last week and two weeks ago.

Enjoy.

Cheers,
John

[t00lie]

 

Just a few photos of kurabayashii in my garden. The photos date from last week and two weeks ago.

Enjoy.

Cheers,
John

 

[TheOnionMan]

Just a few photos of kurabayashii in my garden. The photos date from last week and two weeks ago.
John

John, a beautiful trillium and beautiful photos, I like how the sun can light up these dark flowers.  This species seems popular on the European continent, but I haven't run across it here in the USA.

[Anthony Darby]

Absolutely stunning John.

Anthony , I've had the RBGE form of T. grandiflorum roseum for over 10 years, it flowers regularly, but so far has only made 2 offsets .

Otto, nice to hear the RBGE form of roseum is grown down under. In the last four years mine has had 2; 2; 1 and 2 flowers. It has never made offsets in this time, unlike my paler versions, or 'Jenny Rhodes', which produces offsets like an explosion in very slow motion!

[TheOnionMan]

Lots of Trillium coming into bloom after a couple very warm sunny days.

1    T. decumbens in two forms, one from Georgia on the left with lighter leaves and flowers, and the other from Alabama on the right, with darker foliage and flowers.

2.   T. grandiflorum - I like the undulate flowers, the white flowers looking picturesque against the dark leaves of Epimedium x youngianum 'Tamabotan'

3.   T. grandiflorum 'Multiplex' or Flore Pleno - overdue for lifting and dividing, with over 30 flowering stems this year.

4-5  T. lancifolium from Tennessee, a distinctive species with narrow leaves that angle downwards, and the very narrow maroon flowers.  It seeds around, and in the photo you can see a couple younger self-sown plants flowering.  Also seen, are T. recurvatum, T. decumbens, and T. reliquum.

6-7  T. reliquum - one of the best for foliage, here again seen in two forms.  The first photo taken yesterday, flowers not quite out, the other photo taken this morning, the flowers had opened.  I also weeded around the plant, removing Oxalis acetosella (easy) and a tiny invasive weedy veronica (grrrr), now better able to see the baby reliquum.  You may also notice foliage of T. nivale close by.

8-9  T. rugelii - just starting to open its shy flowers, another multistemmed clump overdue for division, although it seeds about too.

[John Aipassa]

Thank you Dave, Mark, and Anthony.
When the sun is shining and my kurabs are flowering I always rush into the garden to take pictures. The sun gives such a stunning effect.

By the way Mark. There are a couple of nurseries in the West, who are offering kurabayashii. But there is a chance that this Westerner will not perform well in your Eastern American garden. The Western European sea climate fits well to kurabayashii, since it comes from wet coastal redwood forests in northern California/southern Oregon.

Cheers,
John

[John Aipassa]

A few other photos.

Cheers,
John

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 T.kurabayashii 3102
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