 |
A wonderful double flowered form of Trillium grandiflorum. I have a terrible history with Trillium, in my climate they prefer to be in full sun and
free of any weedy competition. A situation that I find difficult to maintain. Grown in pots they sulk relentlessly until they die. For many years I have been
reluctant to kill a 'Snowbunting' just to demonstrate that I can still do it but I finally succumbed to this small shoot. After all, killing a small one is
less culpable than killing a large one. It was planted out under the trees and several years later I am still clinging to the hope that it might reappear. Dr. Paul Christian sys in his Rare Plants catalogue: "The lovely ‘Gardenia flowered’ full double, here with its correct clonal name. The normally three-petalled flower is replaced by whorl upon whorl of crowded, symmetrical white petals of superb texture and poise. Long lasting and stunningly beautiful. These are flowering-sized, mostly budded, vegetative divisions of the original clone traceable back to Dr. Henry Teuscher. This is the original clone, distributed to several botanic gardens and private growers, notably in Scotland. However there is simply no truth in any recent suggestions that different Scottish clones exist. Look closely enough at any clonal clump and you will always see differences between individual flowers, depending on their age, state of development and vigour – this is how fairy tales begin! |
|
| 6th April 2017 | ||