where to buy trilliums
daphnexduck
16 years ago
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help! pacific dogwood and trillium grandiflorum
Comments (2)I don't know where you can get your samples. Maybe someone else can tell you that. You didn't say what you want to do with them but there are 2 ways you can preserve them. One is the pressed method--your phone book method may work but you would have to put something absorbant on each side of the flower and add extra weight. Another way is to preserve them using silica jell. There are better experts than I am, on the web with step by step instructions. Google how to press flowers and How to preserve flowers in the microwave....See Moredogwood and trillium
Comments (1)Sorry, obviously no one can assist or they would have responded by now, so I'm bumping you....See MoreTrillium project
Comments (37)Wow, I am surprised that there is interest in this thread, I had posted this ten years ago! I took a break from this site for years, but I am back with a slightly different screen name. I am still growing many of the double flowered trillium. It is my understanding that it is against the rules to be selling any plant material here on GardenWeb, and when this was originally posted ten years ago it brought out a number of people that thought because I was growing so many of these that I would agree to trade it for something that I had no interest in, or that I would just send them some because I had so many. That was a learning experience for me! Here in Ohio bagged Fafard soil mixes are still available, I don't remember which exact mix I used for pot culture, but it was one formulated for containerized perennial plants. Trillium would probably do well in any soil mix that has a percentage of fine bark in it, and one that drains well. Over the winter I would "trench" my potted trillium burying the pots in the ground just under the rim of the pot. It has been my experience that rodents have no interest in their rhizomes, there is a large population of voles and chipmunks here that have never ever bothered any of my trillium. It is the deer you have to watch out for - I think they can smell trillium for miles and are attracted to it like a magnet once it is producing leaves and flowers. Last spring I had deer eat a section of my trillium bed down to the ground and will put up fencing this year as soon as I see them starting to grow. They don't usually show any signs of growth above the ground until the beginning of April here, so don't despair, it is still early in the season. Be patient and they will grow for you. Here are pictures of my trillium bed last spring, this is Phlox divaricata 'Blue Moon' that blooms at the same time and is a nice companion plant....See MoreTrillium grandiflorum pH requirement?
Comments (13)Hi Vegangirl, Took 3 measurements in 3 different spots around my T. grandiflorum, all were right around neutral (6.8 -7). These plants are all doing well but are grown in a garden not the wild. Measured the ph in a relatives garden where the same trillium (gave her some of mine last year) are not doing as well and ph was also 7. Not sure why they are not doing as well there they're flowering but seem stunted and two have what look like varigated leaves (virus? maybe too much sun when they were emerging?). Mine are in a fluffy humus soil that stays pretty moist, I might have added a little peat at one point. My "native" soil that is underneath the humus is very sandy and fast draining, great for growing lots of stuff. Hope you find the right conditions for your Trillium to do well....See Morekellycomposter
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