Trillium chloropetalum

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Price:  £10.00 Notify me when this item is available Family:  Melanthiaceae Main Season:  Spring Flower Colour:  Red Leaf Colour:  Multicoloured Foliage:  Spring ephemeral Position:  Light/Part Shade Soil Type:  Good, moist, humus-rich Height:  15cm to 30cm (6" to 12") Peat Free?  Yes Hardiness Guide:  RHS H5 minimum -10C to -15C Pot Size:  9cm Availability:      None available at present. View our Pot Size guide:

The easiest species I've found here in Norfolk with well marked leaves and rich maroon red flowers in spring to 30cm. Good, rich leafy soil in shade.

This form came from the famed Washfield Nursery where it was labelled "good form" and we only propagate by division, each young plant needing 2-3 years to flower when growing well.

Many Trillium species can be difficult to grow well here in the dry east of England but having grown Trillium chloropetalum since the mid 1990s I can say that this species is "relatively easy"!  The main task is to find a planting position where the soil will remain somewhat moist all summer, at least some shade is best but not too dark!  It is perfectly hardy.

From generally wooded places, with soils that don't dry out, along the coastal parts of California, USA.