How to grow trillium from seed

Growing plants from seed they'll take around 4 to 8 years to flour and by division of rhizome around about 4 years to grow trilliums you need a shaded position especially over summer and as   grow beneath a copper Beach tree you'll also need a humus Rich deep soil, a moist soil, and at the same time being well drained. If your trilliums are happy, they'll form clumps. This trillium does not like hot summers, and our Copper Beach tree acts as an air conditioner in the summer, keeping the temperatures much lower than in the open parts of the garden. 

that we grow used to be called Trillium rivale; it's now called Pseudotrillium. It's smaller, growing smaller flowers but still worth growing; it's easier and faster to flower, and it will spread more easily. There is a theory that trilliums don't grow well in pots; however, we find that not to be the case. Here's a clump of trilliums that's been growing happily in this pot for a number of years. Keep them moist, cool, and shaded in the summer, and you shouldn't have too many problems. 

Trilliums will actually self-seed. Here's a seedling. We've got another one here, but here we've got a whole clump of seedlings. These seeds were probably dropped 2 years ago because the seeds take a long time to germinate. They need a cold winter. They need to be kept moist but never wet and soggy.

If you wanted to, you could always try hand pollinating. Use a simple paintbrush like this to try hand pollinating, and with a little bit of luck, you'll get some seeds. You could collect them, but they need to be swung straight away. Fresh seeds are much better; we tend to let ours drop to the ground and leave them in one spot. Don't fertilize them because any harsh fertilizer on these could burn the tender young shirts and the tubers; they need to stay in the ground in one position for about 2 years before you could lift them and divide them; they're just too small to divide when they're any younger than that. As for the rest of these plants, when the 

Flowers start to go off, and that's starting to be now. You could get some age cow manure or age sheep manure, and you could use that as mulch around them after flowering, and you'll get fantastic growth the year after. So you can grow trilliums in the garden, you can grow them in containers if you want to, and you can grow them outside their climate zone as long as you can give them shade, moisture a cool winter. With those three factors, you've got a good chance of producing wonderful flowers, just like these trums are just one of many wonderful little woodland plants, but 

You don't need a woodland to grow them. If you've got a spot in a shaded courtyard, you could grow them there or you can create some shade for them. They grow well with plants like a still bee, the bleeding heart plant, one called Mary Bells, and lots of others.