Trillium 2010

[TheOnionMan]

That's quite disgusting Dave but I bet someone would pay a fortune for it.

I have to agree with you Lesley --not the most attractive T. i've ever grown.
    
Mark are you really lusting after it ? if that is the case then i'm open to all offers above a minimum of six figures of course--i'll start the ball rolling $000,001  

I'm game, I'll double it to $000,002   

[Lesley Cox]

You could probably stick with 1, Mark, your dollar being worth more than ours. But maybe Dave would like payment in GB pounds at present.

[t00lie]

You could probably stick with 1, Mark, your dollar being worth more than ours. But maybe Dave would like payment in GB pounds at present.

All contributions are most welcome Lesley --especially as i've delayed any currency conversion in the hope of a better rate and now find we are 'down' about 300 UK pounds to when i should have converted back in May .

On a brighter note .

Another early Trillium out today .

A lovely coloured T. angustipetalum  Kiss -- the flowers will darken yet.
 
You can see it has a small deformed 4th petal which in my experience will not appear next season.

Interestingly quite a number of my T.s are 'blind' this year--no doubt still recovering from being weakened by a fungal disease of last year--i sprayed early this month with Octave just as the plants were 'moving' and thankfully there is no sign of any problem. Smiley Smiley

However in saying that ,there are still many in bud ,so hopefully i can post more pics during the next 2 weeks before our departure.

[angie]

Did my trillium seeds yesterday just would like to find out where I would keep these, are they better outside or in my polytunnel. If I looked back I probally would find the answer but away outside to do some seeds, so I am taking the lazy way.
Like I have said before I am going to try and get better with seeds

Angie

[gote]

Gote
 I wonder if the possible mutation you mention has some connection to this 'sick albino budgie' that was growing in close proximity (within a metre),last year .

Cheers Dave

Dave,
It looks very sick to me. It can of course be a mutation (which would not carry over to its eighbour) but more likely seems some chemical problem with the soil or some disease.
If It were mine I would dig it, clean it, treat it with a fungicide and replant it in a different location.
If it still looks the same I would think about giving it a name and selling it dearly.
Cheers
Göte

[Diane Whitehead]

A different colour on each stem from the one Trillium plant is something i've never come across before.............

Here is what I posted on Trillium-L in 2003:

I spent a few hours today buying trilliums at Thimble Farms.  Richard
Fraser showed me a Purple Heart rivale that he bought at a silent auction
at a Winter Study Weekend a couple of years ago.  The donor was Ernie
O'Byrne of Northwest Nursery in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

There was one piece of root.  Half the flowers have dark red dots filling
most of the flower.  The flowers are noticeable from a distance.  The
other half of the flowers have pale pink dots.

I suggested that the buds at one end of the root had sported.  Richard
said that couldn't be because last year the flowers were reversed - the
dark ones were at the opposite end from where this year's dark ones are.

So, what is happening here?  Is there only so much dark red pigment
available, and so it only goes on some of the flowers?  Though if that
were the case, surely the whole plant would have medium red dots. It is
not two plants, though that's what it looks like.  There is still only the
one root.  (I think Richard dug it up and peeked while it was dormant.)

I wrote to Ernie O'Byrne, and he had never had this happen.

[Susan Band]

Diane,
I have noticed this happening on Trillium rivale as well, a straight line right up the centre of the petals often happens with one half spotted and the other not.
Not every year, perhaps only when I lift them?
Weird.
Susan

[t00lie]

Very interesting Diane and Susan.

A few more Trilliums currently in bloom

Trillium rivale large white
Trillium rivale pink.

Trillium angustipetalum
Trillium chlor Lemon.

[daveyp1970]

Did my trillium seeds yesterday just would like to find out where I would keep these, are they better outside or in my polytunnel. If I looked back I probally would find the answer but away outside to do some seeds, so I am taking the lazy way.
Like I have said before I am going to try and get better with seeds

Angie

Angie all my pots with trillium seed are put outside in the shade and will stay there,i check them every now and then to water to keep the compost moist,that's it but there are more experienced growers here who might do something different.

[Maggi Young]

Did my trillium seeds yesterday just would like to find out where I would keep these, are they better outside or in my polytunnel. If I looked back I probally would find the answer but away outside to do some seeds, so I am taking the lazy way.
Like I have said before I am going to try and get better with seeds

Angie

Angie all my pots with trillium seed are put outside in the shade and will stay there,i check them every now and then to water to keep the compost moist,that's it but there are more experienced growers here who might do something different.

 Angie, your pots of Trillium seed are much better off outside meantime to take the weather. Once they germinate you could lift them into the tunnel if you wanted to give them a little protection.

[Lesley Cox]

Yesterday I saw some small plants of T. rivale, pale pink but striped or slashed with uneven dashes of deeper red. Confidently, I said they were virused, but later wondered if this was correct. To my mind they were not attractive with the unever deeper colour but their owner said he had been selecting them over a few years as "something different." Does anyone have any thought please?

[Lesley Cox]

Did my trillium seeds yesterday just would like to find out where I would keep these, are they better outside or in my polytunnel. If I looked back I probally would find the answer but away outside to do some seeds, so I am taking the lazy way.
Like I have said before I am going to try and get better with seeds

Angie

Angie all my pots with trillium seed are put outside in the shade and will stay there,i check them every now and then to water to keep the compost moist,that's it but there are more experienced growers here who might do something different.

 Angie, your pots of Trillium seed are much better off outside meantime to take the weather. Once they germinate you could lift them into the tunnel if you wanted to give them a little protection.

And don't EVER let the pots get dry. I did. No Trillium seedlings - ever.

[TheOnionMan]

And don't EVER let the pots get dry. I did. No Trillium seedlings - ever.

That's why I sow all my Trillium seed outdoors in the garden, in prepared beds... the au naturel way, where moisture levels are more consistent than when sown in pots.  With our current drought, I do sometiems water the mulched seed beds.  I have high hopes for the 2500 trillium seed I have sown this year; now if only I could keep the wild turkeys from trying to nest in the area and dig crater-like depressions   For the time being, the situation is under control.

[t00lie]

Yesterday I saw some small plants of T. rivale, pale pink but striped or slashed with uneven dashes of deeper red. Confidently, I said they were virused, but later wondered if this was correct. To my mind they were not attractive with the unever deeper colour but their owner said he had been selecting them over a few years as "something different." Does anyone have any thought please?

Lesley

I'd need to see the plants you talk about to give an opinion however i have seen healthy T. rivale with splashed colouring on one half of a petal as Susan has mentioned.

Trillium angustipetalum yellow just out now. 

[t00lie]

And don't EVER let the pots get dry. I did. No Trillium seedlings - ever.

That's why I sow all my Trillium seed outdoors in the garden, in prepared beds... the au naturel way, where moisture levels are more consistent than when sown in pots.  With our current drought, I do sometiems water the mulched seed beds.  I have high hopes for the 2500 trillium seed I have sown this year; now if only I could keep the wild turkeys from trying to nest in the area and dig crater-like depressions  For the time being, the situation is under control.

It all comes down to the climate in which we garden ,i guess--not having to worry about drought i sow all my Trillium seed in pots of various sizes, even very small ones ,(see pics below of the current crop).