Treasure trove

I have become a real magpie when it comes to cuttings and seeds. I don't really need any more plants (not for this garden anyway), but cannot resist the temptation to see what I can grow. Of course I always ask permission, but if you know what you are talking about and the plant is not PBR restricted, people don't tend to refuse.

This week's treasure trove is a handful of Trillium grandiflorum seed pods, collected from the parent plant with the owner's full agreement - they had no plans to use them. I couldn't be more pleased if they were rubies. Time to do some research into the best way to germinate and grow them. I do know that it will be some years before I have a carpet of white trilliums under my dreamt-of hazel coppice.

Trillium grandi- florum seed pods.

My one and only Trillium grandi- florum in flower earlier this year.