Trillium 2012

First of the Trillium ovatum Roy Elliott in flower today.  2 inches tall, might make 4 inches when seed sets.

:-\ Trillium nivale does not want to grow in my garden....it probably doesn't like the gardener.  :rolleyes:

The first Trillium in flower here now:

Wim your yellow chloropetalum look like my 'Ice Crem' a selected form from Barry Sligh.
Mark beautiful plants and a good description, thank you. I have some southern forms, but they do not grow so well as the northern and eastern species.

Here are some picture of Trillium from my garden. The big plant as grow next to kurabayashii is white and has a pleasant smell, so I think it's albidum?

And a few others.

Very nice selection from all, really like the yellow kurabayashii.
A selection from the garden this week.

Wonderful plants, all!

Karl, my yellowish T. chloropetalum is not 'Ice Cream', it was a seedling from open pollinated plants.

Mark, I love T. ludovicianum. But it's not easy to grow over here...I guess I'll have to try it from seed once!

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  ;D
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 :)

Maybe T. beige ???

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

Roland

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

Roland

I agree

very nice selection

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

Looking for advice on soil for Trilliums- as I mentioned, I think its T erectum and grandiflorum seedlings I have-- how much organic material should the soil have, and what about issues of drainage, moisture retention? Most of my woodland plantings will be at the moister end of the property, and natural soils are a fairly thin layer of humus over a clayey soil (most perennials etc do fine in our soil unamended) but I am also working on some low berms in the area that are part soil part leaf/grass compost, and developing another bed on a site that was used for dumping leaves, grass, sticks and bits of wood, a bit of old potting soil etc (and some junk like old pots and plastic I have to pick out!) which I think will end up being somewhat raised and quite loose and humusy....

Here is some correspondence about Trillium erectum Beige

it seems to be not a valid name
but just used in the commerce

I took away the .nl against spambots

Roland

Caroline Dean via science.uu

17:14 (17 uren geleden)

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=TRER3

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_...

I agree, numerous references point to cultivars in commercial sale, however, scientific documentation for “Trillium erectum f. Beige“ is elusive

RADean

I can't recall ever hearing of that name being published as a valid name. However I haven't done a real literature search for that specific epithet.

Richard

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Bulborum Botanicum wrote:

Is there someone who knows where the name Trillium erectum f. Beige comes from

Roland

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Roland

Quote:

In my earlier post, I may have given the impression that I was just remembering that I bought T. erectum beige from Arrowhead Alpines (AA) in 1995.  But this is directly from a copy of their 1995 catalog:

"TRILLIUM ERECTUM BEIGE"

A fairly unusual erectum that may have some hybrid parentage

Considering that the price for three of these plants was $6.00 in 1995 (inexpensive even for that time),  I am guessing it possible that AA obtained them from Tennessee collections and, per John Lonsdale's observation, those collectors may have sent their name along with the plants.

As I was rummaging through my old records for an older catalog, my wife, Joan, thought I was finally about to put all that "junk" out for recycling.  I was not, and I could not find an older catalog for AA.  That leaves us with the 1995 AA catalog as the oldest "documented" use of the term which, I agree, most likely merely refers to the off-white color.

Jerry Hudgens  

No I didn't
I couldn't find an answer where the name T erectum BEIGE came from

Lis wrote:

cohan wrote:

Looking for advice on soil for Trilliums- as I mentioned, I think its T erectum and grandiflorum seedlings I have--

Don't know if you got any reply.... as far as I can see, T. grandiflorum is pretty easy-going. It does like (need) sun in the spring but I have it growing in masses in woodsy soil, in clay, in marshy soil, even among rocks with little or no soil. It needs good drainage later in the season as it spends a long time dormant. T. erectum is a little fussier; it likes more shade and more moisture but still good drainage in the later summer and the winter.

Your slightly raised woodsy beds sound perfect!

Thanks, Lis! There seem to be quite a few seedlings in each pot (I sowed them in wide not too deep hanging baskets-8inches? expecting them to be some time to planting out0, so I can try a couple of spots; all still just at single small leaf stage, though I think the seeds were sown fall 2009 from Gardens North moist packs; Some Hepatica sown at the same time are just starting to look like real plants with several leaves :) and Corydalis nobilis, also same time, are 6 inches high or more,  huge by comparison!

A couple pics of the first Trillium in bloom here  :)

T.angustipetalum.

A number of pots of different Trillium rivale forms are in bud needing a few days of warmth.

Cheers Dave.

You mean Trifolium angustifolium  ;D

Roland

A few Trillium rivales are just showing colour .
The first two show similar markings however each have a different petal shape .

The last two pics are of Uk seed sown 2006.

Cheers Dave.

All great all round plants, Dave.. the different forms on the rivale are nice!

Thanks guys

Been a good summer/autumn for Trillium germination --a few months on and cotyledon growth is evident ,with a few seedlings in their second year..
Pic shows about half of the pots of this years success.

Cheers Dave.

Dave

It looks if you soon need a much bigger garden  ;D

Roland

bulborum wrote:

Dave

It looks if you soon need a much bigger garden  ;D

Roland

;D ;D

Actually i underestimated Roland ....my earlier pic only shows a third of the germinated pots.

Here's a few images from today.

Cheers Dave.