Trillium germination

[Hoy]

Hello Marianne!

You have some nice Trilliums

Where do you get them from, do you have a source in Sweden?

[Marianne]

Hello everyone

This is the story of the beautiful T. grandiflorum "Gothenburg pink strain". I have translated what the man himself (Henrik Zetterlund) who "made" this beaty with his co workers have written about it on his blog. http://henrikzetterlund.wordpress.com/
Henrik works at the Botanical Garden of Gothenburg, a beautiful garden to visit.

In the 1950:is the garden received a pink form from Edinburgh, which only could be multiply by divisions, since the seeds gave both pink and white forms. 1995 the garden received 2 pink forms from Fred and Boots Case from Saginaw, Michigan.
The garden started to hand-pollinate the pink forms and in the year 2000 all the seedlings came out true pink and still does.
The forms that was from Fred and Boots was found at the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.

My plant was given to me by a friend as a gift, I'm a very lucky person who have such a wonderful friend.

Marianne

[Marianne]

Hallo Trond

I have bought mostly  of my Trilliums from plantmarkets here in Sweden, and some from the Botanical garden of Gothenburg. Not very many nurserys have Trilliums, and if they do, it's mostly T. albidum and T. luteum.
Trilliums like T. chloropetalum and T. kurabayashii is hard to find here in Sweden, and it's even harder to find these 2 with colors like pink, white and yellow flowers.

Is it hard to find Trilliums in Norway?

Marianne

[Hoy]

It is very unusual to find trilliums for sale in nurseries here. However some small ones sell on internet. I don't have many plants and most are bought from abroad. The last year I've started sowing to get more than one plant of each species to plant out in my woodland.