Trillium 2011

[RickR]

Also note the different colour of the sepals --in this case they are green with a brown stripe along each edge ....

Cheers Dave.

Sometimes I will look at the photo before I read the accompanying post, and I notice that brown penciling right away.  Very fetching!

[Toole]

A few more T's in bloom.

Trillium nivale close up.


 
A couple of T.chloro hybrids .





Another one with yummy foliage   ----when fully open will be a nice lemon with a red throat.



Cheers Dave

[RickR]

That one is especially scrumptious, Dave!  Does the foliage hold its colors?

Congratulations on your Trillium nivale.  It looks like they might already be suffering from heat, unless that flower is already weeks old.  Here in Minnesota the wild plants bloom while there is still old snow at least in the low places, and well before the last spring snows (early to mid March).

[Toole]

Thanks Rick--yip the foliage coloring/pattern is stable.

The T .nivale flower had just opened .A day on and it has already started to bend over towards partial sun.

As i mentioned last season i was down to just a few plants after giving a number away so I'm pleased to see a second plant coming into bloom.I'll let them seed in situ and hopefully build up numbers again.

Cheers Dave.

[McDonough]

Dave, I have commented on Trillium chloropetalum before, but I must comment again that I find that species worth growing just for the rounded fullness of the foliage alone.  I'll add it to my list of species to be on the look out for.

Recently ripening were two seed pods on my extra super-duper robust Trillium vaseyi, the pods at the perfect level of ripeness, bursting open but not yet shed... I squeezed the gooey contents directly into a spot in the garden; only 6-7 more years to go  Oddly enough, this is the only species that set any seed this year, most unusual to see such paucity of trillium seed.

Don't you just love the "triangulariness" of Trillium vaseyi blooms when the segments fold tightly backwards behind themselves.

[RickR]

My trillium seed would have been kiped by ants long before the bursting stage.  But in fact, none of my seven trilliums produced seed this season.  With it being so wet in spring and early summer, pollination was poor on many plants.

[Toole]

Luckily we have no ants on our property Rick.

A few more...

T.cuneatum --sown July 06 -- unfortunately the pic doesn't show how very short these plants are --(the blurred T.chloro in the background distorts the scale).

Trillium rivale close up.

Yellow T.angustipetalum is about to open with petals that seem unusually long this season ?.....

Cheers Dave

[WimB]

Dave, I said it before and I'll say it again...you grow some wonderful Trilliums.

Love the yellow T. angustifolium.

Has the yellow chloro with the red throat opened already? Must be wonderful with those stunning leaves! No forms like that available over here (yet)   

[Toole]

Thanks Wim for the kind comments.
The 'lemon' T. hasn't opened fully yet ,(it's in one of the shadiest beds) .Will 'post' when it's at its best.

I only cultivate a small number of the wonderful coloured forms of T.chloro and other Western sps grown here in NZ.
The NZ Trillium Group have their annual weekend in 4 weeks time - hopefully I'll be able to show you some bright yellows , bronze and unusual combinations.

My focus continues to be on the later sps such as sulcatum , erectum, flexipes etc as i consider there is great potential there, (and these sps, in my garden ,do not appear to be affected by fungus that attacks the westerners ).

Cheers Dave.  

[WimB]

The 'lemon' T. hasn't opened fully yet ,(it's in one of the shadiest beds) .Will 'post' when it's at its best.

...hopefully I'll be able to show you some bright yellows , bronze and unusual combinations.

I'm looking forward to it 

[RickR]

I was introduced to T. rivale just this past spring.  In fact, not even knowing there was such a species, I initially thought it was a typo for "nivale" and said to myself "I don't think so...".  The speckling is really attractive!

Luckily we have no ants on our property Rick.

Cheers Dave

Gasp.  I didn't think that was possible anywhere in the world!

[IMYoung]

Super Trilliums, t00lie, looking very good.


Rick: Oddly enough, in concert with our chum in New Zealand, we have no ants in our garden here in North East Scotland either.
Not that that helps with the Trillium seed, since wasps love to steal it. 

[McDonough]

Super Trilliums, t00lie, looking very good.

Rick: Oddly enough, in concert with our chum in New Zealand, we have no ants in our garden here in North East Scotland either.
Not that that helps with the Trillium seed, since wasps love to steal it. 

First of all, let me say again how much I'm enjoying the Trillium photos, particularly the T. chloro. hybrids.

Secondly: NO ANTS!!!!!  We have a few billion-million-gazillion here, many types.  I had planned a whole series of topics here on NARGS, one being " Garden Adversity", showcasing key factors, and ants is most definitely one of the primary challenges.  But, with my crazy ridiculous time-sucking job I never got most of these past just "an idea".  I don't want to derail this excellent Trillium topic, so I will indeed start my "Garden Adversity" thread, and will rant over there .  Now, back to trillium!

[Toole]

Super Trilliums, t00lie, looking very good.

Thanks Maggi,(i presume   )---They have looked better--a number of plants have foliage damage .I'm hoping the later ones just coming into growth are an improvement.

Rick ,here's another T.rivale ,raised from seed sent to me a few years ago from a generous forumist in Ireland.

Another T.rivale full of promise--deep pink in the bud.

The leaf pattern of T.luteum is reason alone to cultivate it.

Cheers Dave.

[Toole]

Hope you all don't mind but here's a few more for Mark ..... showing some more colour variations ...

A bright yellow.

Pale lemon, maroon throat and veining.

Off white, strong coloured throat fading well up the petals.

Pink base,yellow mid region topped off with white. ----Close up.

Cheers Dave.