Trillium 2012

[fredg]

Stilts - I could have done with them years ago. There isnt a day go by that I dont stand on or kick over a pot
Amazon sells stilts   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Junior-Hold-on-Wooden-stilts/dp/B005J4MLWW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334227955&sr=8-2

You'll get nothing done in those Mark.
Get a good pair of strap-ons, you need to be hands free.
See ad below ( was Maggi the model?)

[Lesley Cox]

I must have missed that post from Fred because I too, wondered what the stilt reference was about.

I though the inbetween storey - between the canopy and the groundcovers - was supposed to made up of rhodos and the like, not men on stilts.

[Stephen Vella]

thanks John for showing your cuneatums,,very nice but will wait for the intensify leaf colours. They always come in differant shades and change from day to day when freshly expanding

cheers

[johnw]

The slow progress of Trillium cuneatum ex Don Armstrong from yesterday.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

The backs of the leaves are amazing John, worth waiting for no doubt!

[Diane Clement]

I have found this unusual seedling in the garden, I think it is Trillium grandiflorum, but I've never seen one with this dark pink staining inside the flowers.  It's very different from the "roseum" form.
It’s only just opening and has opened with this colour. Is it virus?? or an unusual form??  
Sorry for cross posting this on Trillium-L

[annew]

It's remarkable, Diane. Does it have extra leaves as well - can't quite make out from the photo. A lucky find!

[Diane Clement]

I think the leaves are normal, but I took the picture hurridly as light was fading and the plant is in a bit of a tangle with some pulmonaria.  I'll sort it out tomorrow and get a better look. 

[Ian Y]

Superb form Diane I have never seen anything like it  look after it and hope it will increase.

[monocotman]

Diane,
Lovely very dark form.  There is evidence in the photos of very high levels of anthocyanin pigment in the leaves as well as the flowers. It looks like you've found something unique!
David

[Lesley Cox]

It certainly doesn't look like a virus, just a wonderful colour form. After all, some of the rivales have great colouring from the throat outwards so why not grandiflorum from time to time? You'll be able to retire on this one Diane, if you can work out how to propagate quickly and in quantity.

[monocotman]

Definitely worth trying to self this plant!
You would have no trouble getting rid of any spare seed or seedlings.
As the pigment is visible in the leaves it should be pretty obvious
fairly quickly if the next generation is also heavily pigmented,
David

[kalle-k.dk]

Diane I don't think it is virus, I think it is a unusual form and a very beautiful form as you can be very happy for, I am sure all who made Trillium from seeds, hope they one day will be so lucky as you. I mean I have read that grandiflorum don't cross with other Trillium I don't know why. Once a friend send me some Trillium, one of them looked like grandiflorum but it was pink on the outside of the petals and ivory-white indside, then I toll my friend it he was surprised, he have never had a grandiflorum roseum in his garden. Take care of you new Trillium.

[Diane Clement]

It's remarkable, Diane. Does it have extra leaves as well - can't quite make out from the photo. A lucky find! 

Anne, I see what you mean from the picture about the leaves, but it is quite normal, the picture shows two flower heads  and corresponding number of leaves.

Thanks everyone for their comments, it confirms my feeling that this is something special.  My plant can't be ex roseum, as although I have now got roseum, I haven't had it long enough to have made this flowering sized plant.  Two postings on Trillium-L show a similar form from Virginia but this colour form seems very rare in cultivation.  I'll get some more pictures when the flowers open properly.  I've just had to run in to escape a vicious hailstorm     

[Maggi Young]

Yikes!Hail! I hope you've got a cloche over that Trillium?