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.
posted by Sue Beesley @ 2:54 pm
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I know what you mean .... I went out to the market yesterday and on the way passed some people who were pruning a large oleander (already???). I couldn't resist. I already have a baby oleander on my balcony garden taken from a cutting last year and I had promised myself, absolutely promised, that it would be the only one. But it's pale pink and these were deep pink ... So I asked and came home with a handful of stems. I now have eight cuttings rooting. Oh well, I suppose I can always give some away .....
PS. Can you explain "PBR restricted"?
Hi Sue,
It means subject to Plant Breeder's Rights - i.e that you can't propagate it without a licence. Most well known, established varieties are not affected anyway.
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