Trillium hibbersonii
totototo@telus.net (Wed, 07 May 2008 12:17:21 PDT)

This last weekend I was talking with a local botanist, Adolf Ceska
about Trillium hibbersonii.

He related two instances where local gardeners lost most or all of
their stock after fertilizing it. Evidently the rule is, you feed it,
you kill it.

As soon as I hung up the phone, I went out and lifted my two tiny
specimens and repotted them in a mixture of 75% pumice and 25% coarse
granite sand. This accords with the way the late Albert de Mezey grew
them, in what looked like trays of pure gravel.

Those of you who have this plant, or who obtain it in the future, are
hereby warned.

--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate

on beautiful Vancouver Island