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I’ve been admiring Trillium for a few years now but shyed away as too expensive to trial and lose but this Winter I’ve been studying them and seeing Lori’s in Canada I feel I could have just the conditions they enjoy – natural woodlanders, very hardy, don’t like drying out in Spring and don’t get damaged by frost – so I decided to source some. I’ve read they enjoy fertile humus rich soil and appreciate mulching in autumn.

So far lol I have:

Trillium chloropetalum white
Trillium luteum
Trillium grandiflorum

On my wish list is T chloropetalum var giganteum and T sessile. Do you know of any other lovely ones I could try?

The other day I was thrilled to see T chloropetalum white pushing through the ground.

Any advice most welcome.

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That's exciting for you Dawn, growing a 'new' plant ... I hope they do well and that you can get the ones on your wish list.

27 Mar, 2018

 

Thanks Hywel. Yes very exciting, I should probably wait a couple of years to see how the ones do that I have

27 Mar, 2018

 

But it makes you so excited doesn't it, and then you just want to buy more :)

27 Mar, 2018

 

Great glad you have bought someDawn I ve had one for some years now which Warwick on here sent me its never flowered but yesterday I could see a flower bud forming first time ever must be the wet weather we ve had here Ill know now to keep it moist in the spring thanks to you hope you enjoy your new buys.☺

27 Mar, 2018

 

Yes Hywel! I think Lori said it can take 10 years for them to mature and so getting more now might be a god idea.
Thanks 3D, so pleased you have a flower bud, yay.

27 Mar, 2018

 

Good luck Dawn, like you I have admired them, but, never bought any, so I will just wait for yours to flower....

27 Mar, 2018

 

Thank you Dawn.

27 Mar, 2018

 

I have T. grandiflorum which grows well here in Scotland and a crimson T. chloropetalum which has a nice leaf pattern. I saw them at the Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and that is where I got my first plants from. They seem to like the climate here. Once established they flower each year.
Great plant.

27 Mar, 2018

 

I have the nodding trillium (cernuum), up in the woods...problem is they're very rare and on the endangered list here. like the grandiflorum but the flower is on a thinner stem above the brachts. the flower seems to be hanging it's head...nodding in the breeze. I found only two plants among the devastation of the pigs...last year. I'm hoping for more this year and perhaps start a small reclamation project.
another factor here may be the cold March weather you've had this year. They're a classic example of the benefits to some plants of a hard freeze.

27 Mar, 2018

 

Linda, it's the red flowering chloropetalum that I would like too.
Are yours up yet? It's good to have such exotic looking plants enjoying a cold climate. I may have to wait a few years for flowers then. They are not readily available, I keep googling.
Lori your nodding Trillium are lovely but those darn pigs, sacrilege.

27 Mar, 2018

 

Look out for T. kurabayashii - it's a stunner. I got mine from Potterton's

27 Mar, 2018

 

Stunning flowers and if you can establish them...which you clearly can in your woodland...I think they are easy and best left alone. I love them.

27 Mar, 2018

 

I love hearing about your woodland. Friends have had them in the past and we used to enjoy long, peaceful walks. Too late for us now, alas.

Have you ever thought about growing Ginseng? People in the Uk do grow this on a small scale . The trouble is a North-facing slope is preferred. It's a profitable and interesting plant ; takes time, but you mentioned a ten year "wait"!

28 Mar, 2018

 

Thanks Andrew. Brilliant, I haven’t looked at Pottertons.
Thanks Karen, we will see, maybe in ten years time.
Hi Eirlys, no never thought of Ginseng, thank you so much, I will look into x

28 Mar, 2018

 

They are fantastic plants and definitely worth having. I think a few would look great in my hosta garden. Have you seen the red one? A must have!

28 Mar, 2018

 

Yes Bathgate, stunning.

28 Mar, 2018

 

Love a success story, how exciting, I just hope we don't have to wait ten years to see some flowers Dawn, I might not be around then, talk nicely to them....

30 Mar, 2018

 

Hi Lin, I know, I'm not getting any younger! But then again, I've been on Goy for 10 years in October, no idea where that decade has gone.

30 Mar, 2018

 

Hi, a few more you may want to have a look at are; Trillium erecta, deep red - purple flowers. T albiflorum, white or pale pink, T ovatum red-green stems, musk scented pure white flowers fading to pink or red, T recurvatum, mottled mid green leaves, deep maroon, occasionally white or yellow flowers, T rivale, a dwarf species [about 5"], white or pale pink flowers, spotted purple at the base.
T undulatum, this one is a bit difficult to grow and needs a moist acid soil, commonly named the ''painted Trillium, it has pale green stems, flushed pink at the base, dark blue green leaves, white or very pale pink flowers with wavey petals, dark red 'v' shaped marks at the base, and maroon margined dark green sepals, hope this gives you more to think about, Derek.

30 Mar, 2018

 

Hi Derek, lots of food for thought. I will look into those, thank you so much!

31 Mar, 2018

 

Just seen your blog, May6th. Been to NGS garden with Dd. You should have been here to appreciate the massed T. Grandiflora, some luteums and the erectums were enormous plants.

6 May, 2018

 

Wow Siris, what conditions were they enjoying? Must have been great seeing them.

6 May, 2018

 

Woodland conditions, under large deciduous trees, high water table.

6 May, 2018

 

Hmmm I might stand a chance then

6 May, 2018

 

One month ago today it was below zero C and we had a foot of snow on the ground... Today I took a quick tour around the garden (the bugs have arrived with the warmer weather.) and found that the trilliums are starting and the lily of the valley hummock is a freise of green shoots. One month!

17 May, 2018

 

Amazing Lori and the resilience of the plants is amazing too.

20 May, 2018

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