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I am truly blessed to live in the woods here, and the wildflowers are a joy I look forward to every year. We have many of the ones you mentioned. But I've never seen a white trillium--here I was thinking they were all red, because that's all we have! And I always thought "trout" lily was such a yucky name for such a pretty plant, lol. Thanks for sharing your wildflowers with us, Jill. Lovely article.
I'm not sure... are Trilliums one of those wildflowers with long tap roots that are hard to move? Gosh, it would be fun to plant one in between Mom's rhodi's to surprise her in spring... :-)
I have plans to try to incorporate some of my favorite wildflowers (not collected from protected areas; I'd either purchase cultivated ones or rescue them from areas about to be bulldozed) along the back of the yard where we have a "fence row" of trees... but at the moment it's still a "ground zero" as I continue battling poison ivy back there... not a good time to nurture new plantings. :-)
I never tried to dig up a trillium...will have to research that. Or try it--we have a bazillion of them. Yep, it would certainly work better to get them from someplace near you so they could be replanted right away. Eeew, poison ivy--not looking forward to that stuff!
Hi Critter and everyone who loves those wildflowers. I was out mushroom hunting at my sisters and she has a zillion trilliums too, I took a couple , I dug out with my hand/fingers and planted over here in my woods,
One looks like it will be ok the other one ify. I wanted to try just a couple and see how well they transplanted. I would so love to see a red trilliums. Next time I'm bringing a shovel and get a nice patch of them.
On another morel hunt over at my Moms yesterday I dug up another wild plant again with my hand and a sharp rock I dug up a couple of Dwarf Larkspur Delphinium tricorne. Theres many over at Moms too!
I would not take them if they were only a few, we could lose them forever , so we need to be very careful and not rape the woods of these beauties.
I want to have my woods with these wonderful plants. There was also many Jonny-jump ups and violets, yellow, whites and blues. Sweet williams too!!!! Mayapples all over. Many more plants to see and find. Oh and the morels , WOW very good year : )
Critter I'm going to check out the wildflower forum, thank you again for a nice artical.
Ok, now I'm jealous--only found 1 morel so far...lol. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough. And I will research how to collect/store seeds from those red trilluims so I can share them. I'd like to trade for white ones!
Next time I go in the woods I will bring a bag for the shrooms, trowel for digging up wildflowers and a bucket to hold them in, a walking stick to move the snakes over that are in my way , camera for taking those WOW shots of the woods, and lunch cuz I'm stayin there all day long :)
Keep looking KyWoods : ) they are yum yum good !!!!!!
Linda, good idea about the hiking paraphernalia--I have one item to add, though...toilet paper! It never fails, I'm always furthest from the house when I gotta go...but then, this is private property. Don't know that I'd be that bold on public land, LOL. I found that Taco Bell napkins work best, 'cause they're brown, and even though I bury 'em, if they surface before disintegrating, they blend in with the forest floor. Is that too much info?? ;)
Great idea on the brown Taco Bell napkins, lol. Theres nothing nastier then to see a white paper tissue in the woods, uggggh
We have an outhouse in our woods but no one will use it, "Spiders, snakes, raccoons" they think are in there. OK OK maybe spideror two and maybe a snake , but i haven't seen a raccoon in there. I went to great lenghts to add corncobs, and a catalog for such needs. And a oil lantern incase of evening nature calls : )
On another note tho, Mullien is a very soft plant that grows in the woods that is used for toilet paper. We have lots of it growing, but never used it yet!!!!!!!
I could not believe one lady that was walking on our trails told me she had to go to the bathroom and would not use the outhouse, she did a # 2 on our pond dam : P. I guess if you got to go ,you got to go.
I have a local friend who mushroom hunts on a relative's property & could probably get me some white trilliums... then we'd at least know about transplanting them.
You're absolutely right about not taking them from where they're uncommon -- also, don't take any from parks or other protected areas.
