Trillium 2012

[Paul T]

Great Trilliums everyone.  Thanks for posting. I particularly love the ovatum and the pusillum, although if I was really listing all the ones I liked then it would be a long list.  Thanks for the lovely pics..... a long way of Trillium time here as yet, but with this summer and autumn how it has been, you just never know.

[Shadylanejewel]

Trillium cuneatum

[Larry Neel]

Hey Trillium lovers -

Heres some shots of native kurabayashii taken a couple of weeks ago taken in Humboldt County CA near Hoopa.

[Jonny_SE]

Lovely Trillium pictures.
A bit too soon for them in my garden but the seedling in my coldframes Finlay start to pop up....//Jonny

[Maggi Young]

Hey Trillium lovers -

Heres some shots of native kurabayashii taken a couple of weeks ago taken in Humboldt County CA near Hoopa.

Greetings, Larry - thanks for sharing. A treat to see these  fat clumps!

[Maggi Young]

Lovely Trillium pictures.
A bit too soon for them in my garden but the seedling in my coldframes Finlay start to pop up....//Jonny

Lots of promise there, Jonny.

[Larry Neel]

I like your frames/plunges, Jonny. Nice job! I finally built some similar structures last fall after losing too many plants in unprotected pots from cold & heat over the years.

[Webster008]

Lovely Trillium pictures.
A bit too soon for them in my garden but the seedling in my coldframes Finlay start to pop up....//Jonny

Lovely pictures Jonny,

Are the Chloropetalum seedlings?

[Jonny_SE]

It's chloropetalum,sessile.recurvatum albidum,sulcatum nivale,rivale,vaseyi etc....Those that have started on the pic. are recurvatum and some sessile...3 years old....Hopefully there will be some nice crosses too...albidum x kurabayashii and some others too...but there are a few years more before i can post a pic of them here.... ...Jonny

[Webster008]

It's chloropetalum,sessile.recurvatum albidum,sulcatum nivale,rivale,vaseyi etc....Those that have started on the pic. are recurvatum and some sessile...3 years old....Hopefully there will be some nice crosses too...albidum x kurabayashii and some others too...but there are a few years more before i can post a pic of them here.... ...Jonny

Patience is a vitue Jonny.

[TheOnionMan]

Jonny, I like your nice orderly frames too.  I take the lazier approach, sowing seed in situ, directly where I will leaves the plants to grow.

Two years ago I received a lots of fresh Trillium seed in mid-late summer, over 20 different varieties.  I expanded some of my beds outdoors with the purpose of sowing all the seed outside directly in the garden.  I was hoping, since the seed was fresh, that I could get accelerated seed germination the first year (hypogeal germination, followed by true cotyledon germination) all in one season, which can happen.  The following spring I got only a few seedlings, out of an estimated 2000-2500 seeds sown. 

This year is the 2nd spring for the sown trillium seed, thankfully many are now showing good germination.  The following photo (sorry, not very good quality) shows a view where I marked the location for seed sown of Trillium pusillum v. alabamicum.  There is one bigger leaf, it appeared the first spring.  But looking closely, there are about 20 fresh seedlings appearing.  Will probably need to wait another 4-5 years before flowering.

[Jonny_SE]

Really nice seedling of a really nice Trillium...You should have seen how it looked a few years ago...a complete mess...I think i have over 500 potts labeled Trillium sp. just because of the simple facts that i though i could remember without labels... ...i have been experimenting a little with  seeds and it seems...(Not sure yet)...that if you sow just before they ripe...like Cypripedium... there are more percent germinating first year...and there are diff. betwine the spices for sure...if that related to the specific Trillium or a combination of habitat and half riped seeds i'm not sure...at least Trillium rugelli have at least 90% germination the first year here...And Trillium vaseyi are self sowing everywhere here but they rarely look like there parents....Jonny

[Lesley Cox]

Larry your pictures are just wonderful - as are the plants of course. Don't they look so good springing from among other native plants around them?

[TheOnionMan]

I'll second that motion Leslie; Larry those are truly splendid clumps of T. kurabayashii.  I wonder why this species is almost never seen in gardens in Eastern USA, it certainly must be amenable to cultivation judging from the popularity of this fine species in Europe.

[Don B]

Kurabayashii certainly grows easily here in the midwest U.S.