Trillium 2011

[AmyO]

Hoy....Here's a link to Bill Cullina's instruction on growing Trillium from seed. Good luck!
http://www.williamcullina.com/files/Download/Trillium%20Seed%20Propagation.htm

[Hoy]

Hoy....Here's a link to Bill Cullina's instruction on growing Trillium from seed. Good luck!
http://www.williamcullina.com/files/Download/Trillium%20Seed%20Propagation.htm

Thanks Amy. Now the next step is to obtain some seed!

[Toole]

Dave, nice stuff there.  And that screenhouse is a nice touch to keep rodents out of your pots, a prevent birds from stealing the labels!

Dave, I like your garden! What a place to explore

Thanks Rick ,Hoy

Although our property is an acre in size most of it is protected bush ,with a little 'cleared ' around the house for small lawns and 'domestic' planting.

The shade house is just somewhere where i can place surplus potted Trillium plants ,(about 300 in total currently) and also T. seedpots.
Never had problems with rodents in respect of pots,(although i actively trap possums and poisen for rats ,both introduced, to aid the native bird/wildlife---however backing onto a larger forested public reserve, it's not a battle i'm winning .

Cheers Dave.

[Hoy]

Dave, Are you allowed to walk in the protected bushland?

[Toole]

Yes there are walkways in the larger reserve ,(also protected),which is frequented regularly by the public and their pets,(dogs), Hoy.Hence i think the officials reluctance in ongoing pest control......

The gravel paths there undulate over ancient sandhills and it's where i used to train ,a few years ago, for marathons and mountain running ,(when i had youth on my side and a different body shape --lol ;   

We also have paths in our little patch and i've recently extended a path down into a small gorge of the creek that borders our southern boundary ,to allow better access in viewing glow worms at night.

Cheers Dave

[Hoy]

Seems to be a nice place to live, Dave!

[Wallace]

Desperately looking for
Trillium grandiflorum 'Jenny Rhodes'
Kinugasa japonica / Paris japonica
Any F-1 Trillium hybrids

[cohan]

James, your bronze foliage clone of Trillium nivale also has much narrower leaves than the norm, too.

These are wild ones in situ in southeast Minnesota, several springs ago.

Very nice! Still working on getting some trilliums here, I feel cheated that we don't have any native...lol I do hope some of the trillium seed I sowed in fall 09 appears this year .. need to get some more in any case, will have to see what Kristl is offering!

[Toole]

The following comments relate to Trillium propagation,

Spent part of last weekend splitting a number of different clumps of species in the garden and potting on the offsets---namely T.chloropetalum--T, sulcatum--T.vaseyii--T .viredescens and T.pusillum.

I normally do this in late January when the foliage is starting to turn ,however due to earlier field trips ,and recent activity,(a final effort to finish the remodelling of the garden),i've been behind the 'eight ball' for a while  .

Although it is not the generally accepted time to divide,all my attempts the last couple of years at around this period were fine, so i'm confident of success.

Shot of a clump of double white T.grandiflorum forma flore pleno .



6 offsets from the clump.



As an experiment I cut the nose off one of the offsets and scooped out some of its flesh, in an effort to induce a number of multiple new growths from the injury.


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About 120 seedpots of trilliums are on the 'move'.

Removing some of the mix in a pot of Trillium chloro yellow ,(x NZ Trillium Group seedlist), sown July 2010 shows cotyledon growths in that bent stage before straightening and appearing above ground in spring.



A little further 'digging' shows a very small rhizome forming .



However not all seed in this pot is at that stage --some still have not germinated or are just starting to send out a radicle.



Cheers Dave.

[Hoy]

I have never dared to split slow-growing species like Trillium! Haven't had much to split either. . . .

[Toole]

I have never dared to split slow-growing species like Trillium! Haven't had much to split either. . . .

Hoy
A good source of Trillium seed is the New Zealand Trillium Group --you don't have to be a donor to request seed although donors obviously have first choice.
Subs are only NZ $15 --a couple of newsletters each year.

Contact details are ----    pejoleonard@hotmail.com

Cheers Dave.

[Hoy]

I have never dared to split slow-growing species like Trillium! Haven't had much to split either. . . .

Hoy
A good source of Trillium seed is the New Zealand Trillium Group --you don't have to be a donor to request seed although donors obviously have first choice.
Subs are only NZ $15 --a couple of newsletters each year.

Contact details are ----    pejoleonard@hotmail.com

Cheers Dave.

A good idea! Thanks Dave.

[McDonough]

I forgot about this Trillium 2011 topic and I put some trillium photos amid other general topics

One of my favorite Trillium species is T. catesbaei.  While it has nodding flowers, the foliage is smallish and narrow enough to not interfere with seeing the blooms, even from above.  I have them is various colors, from a few near white ones, through shades of pink, to deep rose ones. Shown is one of the deep color forms.




Two more views of T. catesbaei from further back, to see the backdrop of Saruma henryi with perky yellow flowers.




Trillium vaseyi is much later flowering than many trillium, in this view, the flowers are at a rare stage for a day or so, where the buds start opening to have a cup shape, but they will shortly fold tightly backwards wrapping around the calyx lobes to form a flat triangle shape, unique!  Above and to the left, is the self-sown plant from T. vaseyi that is huge, with leaves twice the size, and flowering later, which I suspected of being a hybrid, but all who saw photos I posted last year assured me it was simply a T. vaseyi variant.  Also seen (on the right) is two stems of T. recurvatum, which have been in flower for a couple weeks.

[Hoy]

Mark, I am still striving to grow Trilliums! And now you allure me to make new efforts. I have also tried Saruma several times, and the winter is no problem, but guess what is!

[cohan]

I sowed some Saruma  couple of years ago.. nothing came up, I'll have to try again...
As for Trilliums, I think I see some action finally in a pot sown in fall '09! Those will be my first T's.... need to get more seed...lol