Surprise trilliums

A couple of years ago I bought a pot of small trilliums from a nursery in upstate New York. The tag said they were T. erectum. $10 - bargain. The pictures here show what actually came up. Ten flowers this year, three distinctly different plants.

I’m no trillium expert (there are people who devote their whole lives to studying them), but they look to me like a white form of T. erectum and this has reached about 20in/50cm tall, with two rather shorter plants which look to be different forms of T. flexipes in white and creamy yellow. The first year there were only four or five flowering stems, a few half strength doses of Miracle-Gro seems to have helped.

The nursery, whose name I cannot now recall, we found it by chance, grew a wide range of perennials with just a few pots of trilliums. I wish I’d bought them all now.