I have wonderful Trillium that came with the house, but they are still sleeping. Your Trillium leaves look quite a bit like Trout Lilly leaves, though bigger and more crowded together. Thanks for the picture.

Martha

Yep, bit too early for trillium here, too - soon, soon...

When I was a child growing up in Maine, people called Trillium 'STINKING BENJAMIN.'

Stinking Benjamin is the common name for Trillium erectum. Not too appealing a name for such a pretty plant.

I live in 6 acres of woods with native Trillium showing up in various places. I have tried moving some into the garden, but failed. I now resort to marking their location when in bloom, to prevent accidentally destroying them. Al

Trillium kurabayashii starts flowering.

The above looks very much like the Trillium chloropetalum 'Volcano' I grew in my old garden. A big trillium with large, bloodred flowers and mottled foliage - very striking. Gave to a friend when I moved, as new garden is not at all suited to trilliums. Saw it a couple weeks ago when I went back for a visit and glad to see it in full bloom and doing well.

Really nice! I have one very small variety dark red taken from my Mom's garden. In the 10 years I've had it, it has not spread at all. The single plant is now 3. I just saw the leaves this morning. I just ordered 3 white trilliums yesterday. They are native to a local woodland, and I've always admired them. Because of the way the red ones have grown (or not grown) I'm afraid to take much of a risk with more.

Lots of these are in a wooded area in upstate SC. Don't know the variety.

gardenprince
Your trilliums are beautiful. I only have couple of white ones -they still didn't emerge so I hope they made it thru winter.

Rina

Southern Gardening, check out Trillium luteum.

@rina: Thanks! The white ones are most likely Trillium grandiflorum. Very hardy so I think they'll be just fine. Mine are about to flower but are not big clumps.

@ Southern Gardening: Trillium luteum can easily be recognized because the flowers have a lemony smell.

My plants of Trillium grandiflorum suffered from relative drought the last two years. They are close to a big Viburnum plicatum Mariesii which takes a lot of water away from the Trilliums.

gardenprincethenetherlands, I am enjoying all the photos in this thread. Thanks!

The combination of the Epimediums with the Trillium is lovely.

I bought trillium from ebay this spring and about 80% of them came up. 40% bloomed. Pretty happy with that success rate. Very happy to have this flower in our garden.

A coworker offered to bring me in some of her white trillium this week. I've read it does not transplant well. Have any of you transplanted this successfully? Curious Al, how many attempts have you made?

Have also read about transplanting trilliums.

Not found it difficult, however. All my trilliums are transplants.

Perhaps it's, in part, about the transplants being local.

I used to live on a few forested acres with trillium, and found it didn't transplant well while blooming. I'd wait until much later in the summer or into the fall if you can still spot the plants. The ones I bought were bare root and I planted about 2-3 months ago.

I transplanted white and red native trilliums from the cottage. All return and bloom every spring. (5/6 years now). First attempt was not successful however, second attempt I made sure to dig deep (not that easy) and bring as much of the soil/humus/ indigenous growing media with the plants. Trying to keep all intact during transport process was the tricky part I found. The Second time was the charm. I also successfully transplanted Dutchman's Breeches and false soloman's seal. Nice to have cottage plants at home too.

Good to hear thank you!

I'm not sure if hers is in bloom right now. I'll have to ask, and if so I can ask her to wait until it's done. I'm planning to put it in the part sun north side of my house...I hope it does well there. The only other shady area I have is by a maple tree. Although my other plants seem to do well there, I'm not sure that trillium would. Thank you again.

Not so sure about trilliums being sold as "shade" perennials.

As David Tomlinson emphasizes, ephemerals, that go through their life cycle before the deciduous woodland trees leaf over, are not plants of full shade.

They're rather plants of dappled light.

Yes part shade is what I have read. My Northside gets a little sun in the morning and then again in the afternoon. I'm hoping this will be the ideal conditions for them?

I try to give mine conditions as close as possible to what they grow in naturally around here - i.e. under deciduous trees, let all the leaf litter to feed the soil, natural rainfall only, avoid disturbing the soil, particularly after they go dormant. Works for me.... Here is our dog, Cole, posing in the nearby 'trillium wood' a few days ago (this is my 'reference landscape' for the conditions the trilliums like!):

And you can see a patch of our trilliums, and the conditions they are growing in here behind the squirrel-planted tulips on the other side of the oak tree in this picture:

lol great photo! Thanks Woody.

I neglected to say under what conditions mine are growing in, in zone 5. One batch grows under the deck but gets sun until early afternoon; one further out from deck, getting sunlight until about 1:30 (eastern exposure) and a batch along the fence that gets the hot sun from around 10:30 to 2:30. All grow at the same rate regardless of sun exposure. FWIW :)

That's very helpful thanks. Another coworker insists they need need "full shade only" to survive....

I planted the ones I ordered (3 Trillium grandiflorum) a few weeks ago. Each bulb was the size of a thumbnail. I'm crossing my fingers, but have seen nothing above ground yet. Whereas the 5 jack in the pulpits I ordered from the same company have a leaf each and one even has a tiny jack. My Mom's few red trilliums are doing well enough, and I finally see some young plants, so I figure my conditions are right (under deciduous trees).

Magpiepix, would you share with me from whom you bought yours on EBay? Thanks.

GardenHo, it's the same with hostas...some people believe they need shade to survive...far from it. They tolerate shade as they do sun.

The best and most prolific display of blooming trilliums in their native habitat here in Ontario cottage country, for example, is anywhere from full sun to filtered sun. Rarely do I find them growing and blooming in dark places. The woods from where I've transplanted them provide lots of dappled sunlight. As we drive to the cottage, there is a sea of trilliums out in a huge open expanse at the edge of the woods. I've never seen so many flowers. Wish I had a picture for your co-worker.

All flowering plants need some sunlight to bloom, don't they? ;)

This was my source on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/Home-Garden-/11700/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_ipg&_from&_ssn=clampam2897&_sac=1

Thanks so much, magpiepix! How big were your bulbs/roots?

Jo sounds beautiful! Wish you had a pic too lol.

Thanks all for posting your photos of trilliums. Went to a friend's house and was able to identify her dark red trillium. Not the variety, of course, but at least I knew it was a trillium.