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Trillium- (Wood Lily)
Trillium grandiflorum |
A beautiful plant for humus-rich soil and partial shade - good in
a large rockery and excellent in a peat bed. A thick underground rhizome
produces several fleshy stems which bea the foliage and flower parts in threes.
- three leaves, three sepals and three cells in the berry. The flowers which
appear in spring are white, red, purple and more rarely yellow. Worth looking
for, as it is eye-catching and long-lived once established.
VARIETIES:
T. grandiflorum
is the one you are most likely to find. It is also perhaps the easiest
and the most attractive. The besic details are height 1 ft., spread 1 ft,
flowering period April-June. The 2-3 in. wide blooms are white, turning pink
with age. A double-flowered variety
(flore
pleno) is available.
T.
ovatum is rather similar but the leaves and flowers are smaller.
T.
erectum is different - the leaves are dark green and mottled, and the flowers
are reddish-purple. The yellow-flowered Trillium is
T. luteum
(height 8
in.)
SITE
& SOIL:
Requires well-drained moist soil - thrives in light shade.
PROPAGATION:
Divide clumps in
autumn.
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