Trillium 2012

[McDonough]

Trond, the red one, with nodding blooms with reflexed petals that form a roughly triangular shape, is Trillium vaseyi.  It's in bloom here too, one of my favorite species.

[Hoy]

OK, thanks Mark. I got it with no name, just a number!

Any idea what the other is?

[Lis Allison]

...The red one I assume is T. erectum but the other I don't know.

Could be a white form of T. erectum - it looks like it to me. The white form is not that rare and the red ovary is a strong clue to T. erectum parentage and the wide diamond-shaped leaves are also like T. erectum.  Nice in any case!

[cohan]

Many nice ones here! So far my Trilliums consist of two pots of seedlings (erectum and grandiflorum, I think, without checking) which after several years are finally making nearly visible leaves 
I'll have to look for some with marked leaves, I know someone in Manitoba that was growing one (don't know which) so I should be able to find a hardy enough sp

[Hoy]

...The red one I assume is T. erectum but the other I don't know.

Could be a white form of T. erectum - it looks like it to me. The white form is not that rare and the red ovary is a strong clue to T. erectum parentage and the wide diamond-shaped leaves are also like T. erectum.  Nice in any case!

Thanks Lis! So the red one I thought was an erectum wasn't and the white one I didn't think was an erectum probably is! Glad to know - I got them with a number and no name

[bulborum]

Maybe T. beige

[Hoy]

Maybe T. beige

Is that a name?

[bulborum]

Maybe you google Trillium erectum 'Beige'
http://www.hort.net/gallery/view/lil/trierbe40

Roland

[McDonough]

Nice form, but it doesn't look beige at all (beige = a very pale brown color).

[Hoy]

OK, thanks. I googled Trillium beige and got no hits but Trillium erectum beige did
Mark, beige actually is a colour in Norwegian too (pronounced the French way) but I had to ask my wife how she would describe the colour She said exactly the same as you

[bulborum]

Probably it's just a name
same as Blue roses and Red daffodils

Roland

[McDonough]

That could be Roland, maybe just a name.  Perhaps in person, the flowers are an "off-white" or a cream color, as opposed to a clean white.  Regardless, it's a most attractive selection.

[bulborum]

I agree

very nice selection

It is also why I try not to name colours
but often I give LN names

[McDonough]

It is also why I try not to name colours
but often I give LN names

I agree Roland, particularly with such things as Trillium that aren't likely to be vegetatively propagated true to name.

[McDonough]

I have much to get caught up with.  Here is Trillium discolor "pale forms" grown from 2006 seed from John Lonsdale, this is the first flowering, a lovely light yellowish color.




Next is Trillium lancifolium from southeastern USA, a real charmer in my opinion. It is starting to mildly seed around.  There is no other species quite like it, with those downturned leaves and narrow petals that intertwine at the apex.




Last is T. grandiflorum 'Roseum', has remained just two stems for a number of years.  The flowers age an even deeper pink.  I have a small crop of 2-year seedlings coming along from John Lonsdale seed.