Trillium 2017

[Herman Mylemans]

Herman, I have a warm, fairly sheltered, sloped south-facing garden. My garden is too hot for undulatum so I grow it in a pot kept in a shade frame. The compost is a free-draining mix of silica sand, granite grit and Scots Pine needles/leaf mould to which I add some finely chopped sphagnum moss. This mix is VERY acidic. I only water with rainwater/RO (reverse osmosis treated tap-water) water and add 10ml cider vinegar to 1L every 2nd/3rd watering.

The plant is seed-raised from Canadian seed bought on eBay some years back. Germination was poor and the seedlings dwindled over the following years as I didn't know what conditions they liked. Eventually I was left with one sickly young plant. I gleaned some info from the internet on how to grow undulatum and so altered the compost and watered as above; the plant has since gone from strength to strength. Though still a small plant it has two growths this year.

I am no expert but I think that the important issues are a free-draining mix and maintaining a very acidic compost (pH <4.5). A very acid compost limits decomposition of the organic content in the mix which helps preserve the compost structure/free drainage and suppresses pathogenic fungi.

Of course it is possible that all of the above is nonsense and I have simply enjoyed beginner's luck. 

Thank you Steve. At the moment I have one seedling, I hope there will appear more, to try.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Trillium underwoodii
T stamium

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium grandiflorum 'Flore Plenum' (OBW104)

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium grandiflorum 'Snow Bunting'

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium rugelii (BM8)

[Graham Catlow]

Trillium grandiflorum.

[WimB]

Trillium grandiflorum, Rakestraw form.

[Steve Garvie]

Trillium lancifolium -Complete with spider's web.


Trillium discolor




Trillium tennesseensis -A recently described species first found in Hamblen County, Tennessee in 2012 (and described in 2013).

[Herman Mylemans]

Beautiful pictures Steve!
Tr. lanceolatum is that the same as Tr. lancifolium?

[Mariette]

Steve, I donīt know at what to marvel more - Your exquisite trilliums or Your outstanding pictures!

[Steve Garvie]

Beautiful pictures Steve!
Tr. lanceolatum is that the same as Tr. lancifolium?

Whoops!
You are of course correct Herman, it should be lancifolium. I've changed my entry.

[johnw]

Trillium cuneatum ex Don Armstrong

Steve  - For what's worth T. undulatum is native here ad grows in great abundance down on my land in the fog belt, there it grows in shade and full sun with Clintonia, Cornus canadensis, Medeola etc.  When I dig one I'm always surprised as the stems come up through 6-10" of rather open forest duff with moss growing atop.  The bulb sits way down there on rather stiff wet mud and the roots are in the seemingly airless mud.  I can hardly imgine you are too hot to grow it unless your rainfall is too low - here 56"/yr. and about 62" in the fog belt. It's a stinker to grow in gardens here!

johnw

[sokol]

Steve, I donīt know at what to marvel more - Your exquisite trilliums or Your outstanding pictures!

I'd say both are excellent.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium viridescens

[WimB]

A double flowering Trillium grandiflorum (received as "ex Bill Dress") no cv name (that I know of).