Trillium 2012

bulborum wrote:

Dave

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

Roland

;D ;D
Or else revamp parts of the existing garden by giving away a few Rhodos,Camellias etc and planting out a few T.s.

Shots of a couple small beds completed last year ---currently only the Westerners are in bloom with some of the Eastern sps /hybrids just coming through the mulch--hence the gaps ......

Followed by pics of Trilliums from various plots.

Hoy wrote:

No slugs and no strong wind to damage the beauties?

Very little slug activity or wind to worry about Trond --although i do have other problems .

Last year and the one previously i sprayed with Octave to counter the effects of fungal attack on some of the Westerners--this dries up the leaf edges where there is obvious damage however i think the ground around the plant needs to well soaked to improve success-- some plants are blind for a year or two..... a few rot----some recover and do well and flower the following season......

As an experiment to see what happens I've not bothered spraying this year --in any case my focus is on trying to increase my colour forms of Easterners.

Cheers Dave.

RickR wrote:

Oh my, Dave!  Astounding!

And that trillium with the double picoteed sepals... AMAZING!  :o :o :o

People would give there right arm for that Erythronium, too!

Thanks Rick

If you want seed of that Erythronium just let me know.

As Jan has mentioned it's E.revolutum.

I have a number of Ery. pics so i'll do a search and post under the correct thread ... :) .

Cheers Dave.

A few more Westerners out .

I'll leave it to the experts to try and put a label to them ..........I'm not going there  :)

The second last pic is the first flowering of a plant i raised from seed as T.angustipetalum with two flowering stems --in my experience this is not unusual.
Will be interesting next season to see if the pink colour tone intensifies.

Last pic --an Easterner --a clump of Trillium grandiflorum.

Cheers Dave.  
 

Creme de la creme  :P

Trillium chloropetalum 'Val Mulvihill'.

Cheers Dave.

WOW!  8) 8) 8)

Some great stuff, Dave- I think I should watch for some more seed too :)

Thanks all .

RickR wrote:

Spectacularly superb, Dave!  :o :o :o

Val Mulvihill certainly is breathtaking, but every one of them put mine to shame.  The multiple color schemes are so complementary;  how does mother nature do that?

Rick
She's a wonderful master isn't she...I think if you can grow enough whites, purple and maroon together you are giving her a head start..... :)

I understand that seedings from T. chloropetalum 'Val Mulvihill don't come true and the colours are all over the place including in one instance a very bright,(buttercup), clear yellow --it's a cracker !Sorry i haven't been able to locate a pic ........ :o

I saw another beauty last weekend at a friends place ,(parentage unknown)--the owner allowed me to pinch the bud a little to reveal the deep red petals to come --in any case i'd grow it for the foliage alone . :-*

Cheers Dave.

Beautiful foliage.

Thanks Guys.

It's Trillium Weekend time down in this part of the world.

Many folk are making their way to Dunedin ,(South Islands 2nd largest city) --as it's less than 3 hours travel from here ,a number have made the journey a bit further south and yesterday a few of us locals showed some of them around --included in the visitors were Larry and Mickie Stauffer from western USA.

While most of my trilliums are looking decidedly tatty ,the result of a couple recent hail storms,we were able to visit a friends property where he grows 95% of his collection in a couple of tunnel houses.

The following are shots of his set up.

Early start tomorrow as we slowly head up country to the main event --i say slowly as we have a number of nurseries/gardens to visit on the way .... :)

The weather forecast isn't flash --hopefully i'll have pics to show early next week.

Cheers Dave.  

WOW

Did you ask what potting mixture your friend is using

Roland

bulborum wrote:

Did you ask what potting mixture your friend is using

Roland

Apologies for the delay Roland --I've just spoken to him .

He uses peat and mushroom compost at a ratio of 3 to 1.
A bit of sheep manure ,course river sand and fine Oyster grit.

We had a wonderful ,eventful Trillium weekend --will post when time allows this weekend .As a teaser here's a pic of a plant i purchased while away. :P

Cheers Dave.

I am surprised for the peat
I thought they would like more heavier mixture

Here our last show weekend last weekend started with SNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
first time in my live we had snow at an autumn show

Roland

A couple of T's raised from seed ,currently flowering for the first time .

T.vaseyi---- A small flowered form.

A nicely marked T.erectum hybrid that unfortunately has the flowers declined below the leaves.

Cheers Dave

Nice ones Dave! Offhand, I don't think I've seen a trillium I didn't like- though I reserve the right to modify that (such as if there are any double flowers I'm forgetting...lol)

Thanks Cohan

It's getting towards the end of the season here .

The first couple pics are of a beauty i was given recently --huge flowers of substance.  :-* :-*

I quite like T.viridescens --sorry leaves are a bit 'munted' by the wind. :(

however i must admit T.catesbaei isn't a favourite.....

Cheers Dave.