As more and more of our nursery seed-propagated trillium selections reach flowering size, our offering of these great native woodland perennials continues to expand. We now have nearly 10,000 trillium plants in production, encompassing a range of Southeast US native species. Plant Delights has one of the largest collections of nursery propagated trillium plants for sale in the country. Despite myths to the contrary, trillium are easy-to-grow woodland perennials, preferring light shade and a compost-amended garden soil.
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Trillium are spring ephemeral perennials, whose yearly life cycle is compressed into a short 6-8 week period in early spring before the trees leaf out. Trillum's short life cycle belies the large impact that they have in the garden. They are divided into two main groups...the sessile trilliums whose flower sits on top of the leaf, and the pedicillate trilliums, whose flower is attached to the leaf by a short stem (pedicel).
Trilliums have an interesting anatomy....the 3 "leaves" that give trillium plants their characteristic form are actually bracts. The true leaves are greatly reduced structures that surround the underground rhizome. Trillium seeds are also fascinating...they are attached to a nutritious structure called an elaiosome that insects love to eat. When trillium seeds are ripe, ants and wasps carry them to their nests where they consume the elaiosome and leave the seed to germinate...a horticultural win-win situation.
When you are ready to buy trilliums for your woodland perennial garden, please check out our list below which includes a wide selection of nursery propagated trilliums for sale.
Since 1988, Plant Delights Nursery has been the choice of serious gardeners and plant collectors looking for the best and rarest perennial plants. We are pleased to have received the Perennial Plant Association Retail Award in 2011, the American Horticulture Society Commercial Award in 2002, and to have been selected as one of the Best Mail Order Plant Sources - Garden Design Magazine 2010. Welcome to our family of plant lovers!
Trillium flexipes has a large native range, from Minnesota south to Alabama, where it can be found in alkaline soils on forested slopes. In stature, some forms can easily be mistaken for Trillium grandiflorum, Trillium erectum, Trillium cernuum, or Trillium rugelii. Trillium flexipes, which can produce several flowering stalks from a single rhizome, can reach 18" tall when it starts flowering in mid-April (NC). The outward-facing, creamy white flowers are held just above the terminal whorl of green leaves. Our flowering-sized plants are all nursery-propagated from seed from Tennessee's Morgan County region on the eastern end of the Cumberland Plateau...a long and arduous process. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
Despite being endemic to only a small region of beech forests and floodplains on both the Louisiana and Mississippi sides of the Mississippi River, Trillium foetidissimum is just as hardy in Minnesota. The amazing sessile trillium sprouts a 10" stalk in early spring, topped first with three olive-green leaves dramatically highlighted with dark blotches. Atop the leaves are the narrow, maroon-red petals. Trillium foetidissimum is extremely easy to grow in a wide range of garden conditions. Our offering represents 5-year-old flowering-sized plants, grown from hand-pollinated seedlings here at PDN. The original parent clone for this offering was collected outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
This strain of the Louisiana Trillium ludovicianum represents our flowering-sized seedlings, nursery propagated from an original collection in Smith County, Mississippi, where they grew in low, moist flood plains. The 1' tall stalks terminate with whorls of silver and olive mottled leaves, topped with narrow red petals, usually starting for us around late February to early March. These are in very limited supply so, like voting in Chicago, order early and often. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
This strain of the Louisiana Trillium ludovicianum represents our flowering-sized seedlings, nursery propagated from an original collection in Grant Parish, Louisiana, where they grew in low, moist flood plains. The 1' tall stalks terminate with silver and olive mottled leaves, topped with narrow red petals, usually starting for us around late February-early March. These are in very limited supply. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
We are ecstatic to offer flowering-sized nursery seed-propagated plants of the East Coast native (Kentucky to Virginia) Trillium luteum. The seed came from Tennessee's Morgan County region on the eastern end of the Cumberland Plateau. For us, Trillium luteum begins flowering in mid-April (NC) with green and silver flecked foliage, topped with a lemon-scented butter yellow flower...truly one of the most stunning of the genus. In the wild, Trillium luteum is usually found in alkaline soil regions, but we have found it to adapt well to slightly acidic soils. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
The region where North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama converge is home to this amazing native trillium, named in 1984. Prior to then, it was lumped with Trillium erectum, to which it is similar, except Trillium sulcatum is much more robust, with upturned sulcate sepals (boat-shaped). In early May, the wine-red flowers open atop the foliage. We are thrilled to be able to offer nursery seed-propagated blooming-sized plants. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
This is a stunning Southeast native trillium from the dry deciduous forests of the deep South including Alabama, Georgia, and the Panhandle of Florida. Despite this range, it has remarkable hardiness. The stunning, mottled foliage features a dark, medium, and light green checkerboard pattern with a silver streak down the center of each leaf. Emerging in February and March, each petiole is topped with a dark purple flower to 1" tall, contrasting nicely with the foliage. Pot Size: 24 fl. oz (709.77 ml)
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