Trillium

A captivating genus of spring flowering woodlanders always causing comment. They grow best in the dappled shade underneath the emerging foliage of deciduous trees and shrubs, leaf mould is beneficial. Most effective when left to increase slowly but surely. We would love to have an unlimited supply but they are slow to increase and even slower to grow from seed, taking up to six or seven years to flower, therefore availability will ebb and flow as stock becomes saleable.

While some species of Trillium attract bees to their nectar, others have no nectar and simply attract pollinating flies by their scent of rotting meat. The fruits have an oil-body attached to the seed; ants and wasps both eat the oil-bodies in their nests and in doing so disperse the seeds. Plants are susceptible to browsing by deer.