Are any of you familar with Trillium. It's a native wildflower and loves shade, but I don't know if it's hardy for zone 5. Anyone know???

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They have some kinds that you can buy. But the little white ones are endangered. From the catalogs I think the colored ones also are somewhat larger. Are you doing a shade garden?

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Originally posted by tkhooper:
They have some kinds that you can buy. But the little white ones are endangered.

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Yes, you can buy alllllllll sorts of them..
White, Red, Pink, Checked one's and mottled ones'....

But all of them are endangered in the wild,
no matter the color..at least here in NY!!

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Um, off the top of my head..
I would say,
Brecks, DutchGardens,

BULB CATALOGS... do a google search and type in Bulb catalogs..
and then when you go to each one,
type in for their search, TRILLIUMS.

Let me know how you do..

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Wow, I didn't know they were all endangered. Thanks for telling me.

My next questions is: Do they dislike being transplanted? That's what I was told by the person who told me they were endangered. I found that out because the one we saw was right on the edge of the road and I mentioned maybe I better move it so someone didn't run over it. And I was told not to.

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We had wild one's where I grew up...
All over the woods..

I found some white one's growing here,
that everyone had kept mowing over...
I don't know how they survived...

I had about 4, now I have maybe 30????
I love 'em..

I just wish I'd gotten a couple of other colors to spring up around here too, but nooooooooo!

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Wheezie, I checked the places you suggested and did the google search but came up empty as far as the pink ones. I even clicked on the Spring Hill site which said, "Buy Trilliums and Save", but when I went to the site there were NO Trilliums of any kind or color. Go figure!!! Guess I will have to settle for the Great White, Lemon and Purple. At least, now I know they will be okay in my zone.

Thanks again!!!

patches

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I once heard that Trilliums need to grow for 15 years before they flower. If the flowers are picked they can take up to 7 years to bloom again.
My old neighbour once dug a clump out of the bush and moved it to her garden where they looked better every year...Gorgeous!! So I guess as long as you dig lots of root and don't break the stem they will be OK.

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Okay, I found it, where I'd been looking and saw them..

Plants Delights Nursery and find the SEARCH,
type in Trillium, and there is four kinds..
and the leaves are mottled..

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Okay I checked Plants Delight and the flowers and the leaves on the ones at Michigan Bulbs look a little different and they are a lot cheaper. It says the purple one is bareroot, but the other two don't say, but I'm assuming that's true for them too. I guess if I order them I better ask if I have to wait 15 years for them to bloom.

Thanks!

patches

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From what I've heard Michigan Bulbs is a place to stay away from. I thought about ordering from them at one point and changed my mind when I heard about the lousy service. I have enough trouble with things like that.

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Thanks for all the input about Michigan Bulbs. I encounter enough frustrations in my daily living without adding another one in my garden.

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I am not sure about Canada's laws with them being
on the endangered list???

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I have had white Trilliums for years in Toronto in heavy shade. They transplanted easily as I have moved, rearranged my garden and given extra's to friends.

If undisturbed, they duplicated every 2 years.

In Ontario, the law is that they can't be picked or taken from a provincial park, but not otherwise. Yet most people mistakenly think the law is that they can't be taken from anywhere. Perhaps the same misunderstanding of the law occurs elsewhere. I would rescue the plant growing by the side of the road.

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I forgot to add that I have never heard of the 15 year delay in blooming.

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I think it's from seed it takes a bit...

It takes something like 1 to 3 years for the seeds to germinate. Then only one leaf appears and after a couple of years, three leaves finally appear. It is by the sixth or seventh year, the trillium finally blooms....

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*insert finger wavin' gremalin here*
You gotta drive arounddddddddd them all next time..

I have read that if you pick the flower it won't exactly kill the plant, but when the flower can't go to seed, and take up to 7 years to start another seed, that is why they''re on the endangered list...*they don't produce like a dandelion would*
but the actual plant will survive.. and should be okay for another flower next year..

But if it gets damaged again, it is hard to recover...

Also, deers will eat them and they are the biggest enemy I guess...

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