Trillium 2011

[bulborum]

unbelievable pot Maggie

Thanks for the link

Roland

[Janis Ruksans]

Two Trilliums blooming in my greenhouse today:
Trillium angustitepalum I got long way from New Zealand
and
Trillium rivale
Janis

[bulborum]

Good colours Janis

Roland

[TC]

A rather nice Trillium grandiflorum taken at Logan Gardens on Sunday

[John Aipassa]

......Grayish by my observation is the most consistent of the western sessiles when it comes to mottling. As I'm sure you're aware, the mottling fades with age. T. album is the least consistent. I've attached some pictures from a wonderfull place called Big Meadows in Siskiyou County CA which has a cream colored albibum that grows as high as 7000'. Also attached are a picture of a plain leafed but bright white flowered form from Salmon River CA and a pic of a mottled form from Bald Hills, in Humboldt County CA. I'll post some pics of grayish from my garden when the flowers open. (Spring still hasn't sprung here.)....

Thanks for sharing Larry. The Big Meadows albidum photo shows that albdium is not a typical woodland Trillium and grows in full sun as well. I believe the higher altitude prevents the plants from being baked or not? Are they present in the redwoods as well?  I have planted many of my albidum also in full sun in my garden and it is doing very well. Getting bigger and bigger each year.

I look forward to see your garden kurabayashii photos.

Best,

[Lesley Cox]

Larry I was really surprised to see the Trillium albidum flowering out in the field. I thought all trilliums of this type at least, were woodland plants. We learn every day. Well I do, anyway.

[gote]

Larry I was really surprised to see the Trillium albidum flowering out in the field. I thought all trilliums of this type at least, were woodland plants. We learn every day. Well I do, anyway.

Maybe this is another example of my two hobby horses:
#1: Woodlanders sometimes grow very well on alpine meadows because there is more moisture and lower temperature than in the lowlands.
#2: A plant does not necessarily grow best in the "natural" situation - it may be that the competition is not so well off there.

Happy easter everyone
Göte

[bulborum]

I agree completely with you

We have a slope here
where they cut many years ago a forest
There are abundant bluebells growing
and flowering in a full sun spot

Roland

[Larry Neel]

Lesley & John

The Big Meadows photo was taken on June 15, 2009. You'll notice there are groups of Veratrum californicum emerging. They grow 6 to 8 feet tall and in a week had shaded the Trillium's. I went back to collect seeds in August and trashed around for 20 minutes trying to find the Trillium's.

The same is true of trillium's growing in the oaks. Sunny when they bloom, then shaded.

John asked about Trillium's and Redwoods. T. ovatum which seems to like more shade than other western species grows well in the Redwoods. The other species grow along the edges or in open areas between groves.

A great place to spot Trillium's is a recently burned area. The briar's grow back in a couple years and access is restricted.

Great looking plants and garden John. We're forcast to have temps in the low 20's tomorrow morning which is going to burn leaf edges on some of my plants. Some years you win, some you don't.

Larry           

[jshields]

Trillium recurvatum is native here in Indiana.  This one came from someone's backyard woodlot about 10 miles from here.  Most are not yet in bloom here, but a couple are.  In this picture you can see the sepals hanging straight down.

Jim

[jshields]

Here is Trillium sessile, also native to Indiana.  These were collected in Southern Indiana by Mike Broz and he shared them with me.  They have been in bloom here for a couple of weeks now.  Note the sepals do not hang down vertically from the petals.

T. sessile is a little smaller than my recurvatum, and much smaller than the cuneatum from North Carolina in my garden.

Jim

[Susan Band]

A lovely Trillium hybrid that has just started flowering. I think someone must have give it to me, anybody here?
Susan

[bulborum]

You give it to me ?

[Regelian]

A lovely Trillium hybrid that has just started flowering. I think someone must have give it to me, anybody here?
Susan

Susan,

looks suspiciously like a flexipes hybrid I have from Göte!  Maybe?  I believe it is flexipes x erectum.

Jamie

[johnw]

Another from Don Armstrong.

johnw